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Managing Congestion in a Growing City

Recognizing the impact of congestion on the economic prosperity of the region, the City of Toronto has identified eight strategies for a congestion management plan: *intelligent transportation systems, *congestion engineering studies, *incident and event response, *construction coordination, *curbside management, *alternative transportation modes, *traveler information, *traffic management centre

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Reinvent Your Public Works Agency with a Public-Private Partnership

Explore this case study that features how one city manages contracts to deliver public works operations and services, such as snow removal. Learn about structuring the contract for cost control, risk management, anticipating volatile fuel and materials costs while managing a fixed budget. 

 

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Sharpen Your Executive Soft Skills – Part 2

Ever get stuck answering a question for a reporter? What about when communicating with an elected official? Have you ever written a technical paper and after presenting it, your audience was still not able to comprehend the message you were trying to deliver? These are all issues that many of us in public works occasionally struggle with.

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Preventive Maintenance as a Business Case to Regrow a Maintenance Budget

Using industry benchmarks, the City of San Jose, California was able to reinforce that preventive maintenance efforts were underfunded, identify the funding necessary to reach acceptable service levels, and collaborate with the City budget office to align with available funding. 

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How Pierce County Road Operations Uses Asset Management for NPDES Compliance

Pierce County’s in-house-designed asset management system has received awards and recognition for its full featured asset management approach that includes inventories, condition levels, work functions, and cost information. It enhances the agency’s long range planning, service level goals and adaptive management processes. 

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Get Your Message Across with Skill and Confidence

To have success in your public works career, you need to be able to communicate your ideas not just in written documents but also with words and pictures in live presentations. Get tips from another public works professional on how to be a more effective communicator and leader. 

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The Value of Maintenance Management Plans

Sponsored by APWA's Facilities and Grounds Committee Discover the benefits of implementing a Maintenance Management Plan (MMP) to identify and measure park assets. Moreover, an MMP acknowledges and delineates the contributions of staff and maintenance workers and creates data that make it easier to justify budget needs. 

 

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Winter Maintenance All Around The Year

Explore winter maintenance practices in Finland including: snow dumping practices; cleaning snow melt wastewater and using for cooling buildings in summer; cleaning tanks and snow dumps; and managing street dust caused by street gritting and studded tires. 

 

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21st Century Project Delivery: Better, Faster, and Smarter Ways of Doing Business Utilizing CM/GC

The significant difference between Construction Manager/General Contractor (CM/GC) and design-build project delivery approaches is that the builder is brought into the process early in the design stage and it incentivizes innovation. 

 

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Making an IMMPACT

The City of Austin, Texas’ Infrastructure, Mapping, Planning, and Coordination Tool (IMMPACT) provides key coordination information about active capital improvement projects and right-of-way permitting requirements, saving the City millions of dollars by leveraging the tool to coordinate dig-once-opportunities. 

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