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When your winter maintenance budget is starving and your appetite for innovation is ravaging, what are the alternatives? This session give some alternatives utilized by the City of Olathe in minimizing the budgetary effects while taking advantage of established best practices in snow and ice control. Learn how Road Maintenance and Fleet Maintenance worked together to minimize costs while moving toward more effective winter maintenance.
Read MoreHow do you manage your storms in real time? How do you handle the situations that come up, both politically and publicly before and after each event?
Read MoreDuring this CLL, participants will hear from APWA and CPWA leaders and members about why and how they serve as public works advocates, as well as learn about resources available for Chapters to get involved and spread the word.
Read MoreJR Fellow Presentation: Waterfront Redevelopment and Transportation Planning in Auckland, New Zealan
In June 2016, Bruce Kaplan traveled to Auckland, New Zealand as an APWA Jennings Randolph International Fellow. This fellowship allowed him to conduct a study tour and meet with members of Auckland Council, Auckland Transport, Auckland Development, and the Auckland Urban Design Panel, to discuss New Zealand’s largest city’s recent experience with downtown waterfront redevelopment, intermodal terminal redevelopment, regional government, and its transportation system’s challenge of accommodating present and projected rapid urban growth. In this presentation, he will discuss his findings from the study tour as well as elaborate on the differences he discovered between infrastructure planning in New Zealand and in the United States.
Read MoreThe scope of winter maintenance work at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport includes roads, parking facilities, monorails, taxiways, aircraft gate areas, and of course, runways. By creating partnerships with equipment manufacturers, they’ve created innovative methods and tools to improve snow clearing processes.
Read MorePlanned and hosted by APWA's Government Affairs Committee (GAC) and the Canadian Public Works Association (CPWA) </p><p>Come join an active discussion on Advocating for public works in both Canada and the U.S. Briefly hear from CPWA and APWA leaders about the current political landscape and what our organizations are doing to support Advocacy as a top priority, and how individual members can enhance these efforts to increase the voice of public works to policymakers at all levels. Be prepared to share what is working at your chapter, or the challenges your chapter is facing when trying to engage in advocacy. A successful brainstorming session—the more the merrier– will empower participants to take ideas back to their chapters and hone their power as THE leading voice for all matters public works.
Examine how to justify your equipment replacement recommendations by using professional fleet management principles. In 8 years of applying these principles, Dakota County implemented a program based on numbers, developed good relationships with user groups, implemented sustainable practices, and increased return on investment.
Read MoreThe Minnesota Department of Transportation’s (MnDOT) BRIM-Bridge Replacement and Improvement Management system uses risk assessment methods to determine a bridge’s probability of service interruption and assigns a score for its relative priority for replacement or improvement.
Read MoreHennepin County, MN is considering elevating traffic management to one step beyond Adaptive Traffic Signal Control. Experiencing massive traffic diversion due to construction, they’ve seen the need for a fourth dimension of signal control – the ability to add or subtract signal phases automatically as traffic volumes change and migrate. Find out what they plan to do and why.
Read MoreHave you ever tried experimenting with a new type of equipment, introducing a new practice or even trying to do something differently than how it has always been? If so, you will be able to relate to the areas this interactive discussion will explore.
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