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San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) has been providing rapid transit in safe, affordable, equitable, and environmentally-friendly ways for over 40 years. The latest BART train extension from Antioch…
Read MoreAPWA’s Small Cities / Rural Communities Committee invites you to join them for a conversation about the client/consultant relationship. Due to limited staff and available resources, small cities / rural…
Read MoreAfter Hurricane Matthew, a 48-foot raw water main serving southeastern North Carolina failed. More than 12.5 million gallons of daily supply serving 300,000 people was being lost in a location made…
Read MorePlanned and presented by APWA’s Fleet Management Committee. Fleet Managers are responsible for the selection, procurement, use and care, and remarketing of their organizations’ fleet assets. A successful fleet manager…
Read MoreWelcome to the 21st Century! City of Surrey’s Public Works’ staff are proud to share industry leading projects. Learn from our successes for your future projects, saving your organization time and money. Our presentation will start with our history, going back over a century ago to the year 1912 with our first Operations Centre, or “Works Yard” as we called it, located in Cloverdale. At that time, Surrey’s population was approximately 3,500 residents. By 1962, with a growing population nearing 75,000 residents and a growing number of staff and equipment, the “Works Yard” was relocated to a new site at 66 Avenue and 148 Street. In 2016, the City of Surrey celebrated its grand opening of the state-of-the-art Operations Centre that will serve a community population of 550,000 and growing for generations to come. The new facility hosts four Departments including Engineering (Operations), Parks Operations, Facilities Management, and By-law Enforcement. In total, over 400 staff report out of the building, plus another 150+ in the summer. The site has three fully enclosed buildings including: The main Operations Facility at 114,000 sq. ft.; Fleet & Garage building at 54,000 sq. ft.; and The warehouse building at 14,000 sq. ft. In addition to the Operations centre, our presentation will cover multiple state-of-the-art projects the City has completed over past two years, such as: Installed British Columbia’s largest municipal RWIS and AVL system; Completed construction of a South Surrey Operations centre; Expanded our fleet of industry leading spreaders; Turn by turn route assistance; Product control and automation.
Read MoreBusinesses and public agencies around the country are reporting driver shortages and searching for other good, quality workers. In this session, we will discuss the hiring practices of the Twin Cities and Schaumburg, Illinois. The discussion will include the challenges faced in recruiting and hiring a diverse and changing workforce and the trainee programs that Minneapolis and St. Paul have incorporated for developing a highly-trained CDL workforce.
Read MoreAny vehicle, regardless of who or what is driving it, has limits in the kinds of atmospheric weather and road surface conditions that it can handle. Take this opportunity to hear and discuss the results of an ongoing FHWA research project on how automated vehicles perform in adverse weather. Among the issues to be covered are how well the vehicles’ sensors and navigation systems perform when nearby vehicles and pavement markings are partially obscured; how road weather providers can best communicate information on current weather and road conditions to automated vehicles; and how an automated vehicle can determine whether a planned trip will be within the weather limits of its operational design domain (ODD). This session will also offer information about FHWA Road Weather programs and initiatives including voluntary data exchanges to accelerate safe integration of automated vehicles, maintenance decision support systems, and road weather data collection initiatives such as Pathfinder, Integrating Mobile Observations (IMO), and Vehicle Data Transfer (VDT).
Read MoreIn 2018, China – the No. 1 destination for US recyclables – cracked down on imports of “recyclables” that contained trash, and had even stopped taking certain materials altogether. Referred to as the “Chinese Sword” this policy decision has driven up the cost of business for US recycling facilities, which in turn started significantly increasing fees they charge municipalities and assessing substantial penalties for contamination. These higher recycling costs have caused some cities to consider eliminating curbside recycling. During this session, participants will be provided with an update on the Chinese Sword, presented with case studies on how municipalities have offset higher recycling processing fees by decreasing collection costs through technology and routing efficiency, and strategies to reduce contamination in recyclables.
Read MorePerformance measurement is an important tool in helping fleet managers and policy makers evaluate the quality and effectiveness of fleet services. This season will provide proactive and practical examples of…
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Examine how to use cooperative contracts as a means of procuring equipment and services through nontraditional bidding. Using cooperative purchasing can save you the time spent in specifications writing and help save taxpayer dollars. This approach leverages costs across a greater spending base and standardizes the work of bidding, evaluating, and awarding the contracts.
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