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Permeable Paver Streets Are Not Parking Lots – Successes and Challenges with Permeable Paver Streets
Here’s a case study focusing on the performance of two different permeable paver streets. We’ll discuss the design elements of each, good and bad maintenance experiences and the performance documented thus far. Attempted remedial measures will be described in detail including the costs and effectiveness of each.
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Advances in survey technology yield a broad range of new and beneficial opportunities for public works. Use of static LiDAR, or laser scanning technology for data collection yields many benefits for certain public works engineering and management applications.
Read MoreThis session will lay out a roadmap showing you how to develop, implement, train staff, and continually improve a telematics solution. Dakota County will share what systems they used, the challenges they met, and how they saw a return on investment through idle reduction, driver behavior, a reduction in salt usage, and speed monitoring.
Read MoreCreating a snow plan and other policy documents addressing how your agency will conduct winter maintenance is a daunting task. You are always worried that you are forgetting something. Take a look at how several hundred agencies in Canada are using a web-based application to guide them through the process and creates the plan for them.
Read MoreDon’t miss this opportunity to hear directly from an NWS forecaster about resources available to public works. We’ll discuss and demonstrate new-fangled tools like the NWS widget, hourly weather graph, and NWSChat. We’ll also cover the concept of Decision Support Services and basic radar interpretation.
Read MoreAcademy Street runs through the heart of downtown Cary, North Carolina and is being transformed into a signature street. Its streetscape offers pedestrians an experience in integrated art, such as benches sculpted like musical instruments; outdoor rooms for people to gather, pedestrian scale lighting, more and larger canopy trees. The result is a continued catalyst to revitalize downtown.
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Many changes had taken place in the last 10 years at the City of Des Moines, IA, yet we were still using an operational plan primarily developed in 2004. By 2015 it became obvious the operational plan needed a change to allow for faster plowing, new equipment and better staffing.
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Are you considering using liquids or growing your use of liquids in your snow and ice operation? Join us to build your understanding of liquid use and see firsthand how others are making inroads by adding and/or expanding treatment types and applications with liquid materials.
Read MoreDo you have trouble getting your project(s) approved? Each and every day, as Public Works professionals we are managing assets. We build, repair, operate, maintain, and replace the critical infrastructure that our citizens and customers rely on. We are managing these assets, but Asset Management aims to do more than just manage infrastructure. Infrastructure asset management aims to optimize assets using data and strategy to make better, more timely, more fiscally responsible decisions.
Read MoreResilient infrastructure depends upon its ability to anticipate, absorb, adapt to, and/or rapidly recover disruptive events. A learning organization empowers its people to guide, influence and manage transformations and adapt its capacity to the changing environment. Can you have infrastructure resilience without being a learning organization?
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