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Many suburban communities are concerned about building roundabouts as they are not convinced about its benefits. Government officials may not know how to start the feasibility study, available funding sources, design details, and best practices. The biggest challenge is to convince residents of the benefits and use of roundabouts. The Village of Orland Park successfully built its first roundabout in 2019. The Village went through various design, funding, and approval processes and successfully delivered its first roundabout to its residents. The Village is now in the process of building a second and a third privately-funded roundabout. This presentation will discuss and provide real-life details of designing and building a suburban roundabout in a community where seniors (55 and older) exceed 30% of the population. The presentation will discuss practical tips that should be included in the design of roundabouts.
Read MoreAPWAs Government Affairs team will present the latest regarding APWA’s public policy priorities in the U.S. The focus of the presentation will be a legislative update related to Congress and federal agencies and APWA’s public policy priorities: Transportation, Water Resiliency, and Emergency Management. The presentation will also include an overview of APWA’s advocacy resources for our members to be “the voice of public works” to government leaders, the public, and media.
Read MoreOver the past two years, municipalities across the nation have been conducting risk and resilience assessments and updated emergency response plans (ERPs) to ensure compliance with the American Water Infrastructure Act of 2018. The City of Chattanooga, Tennessee, partnered with Jacobs Engineering to conduct a comprehensive review of all city departmental ERPs to ensure compliance with National Incident Management System and Incident Command System. Developing an enterprise emergency response plan will facilitate effective coordination and cooperation between inter-city agencies and mutual supporting departments such as the Hamilton County and Tennessee Emergency Management Agency.
Read MoreThe City has a combination of federal, state, and local compliance requirements, in addition to local surface water quality improvement programs, which have resulted in the construction of hundreds of watershed improvement projects. The projects include watershed improvement project retrofits (e.g., pond upfits, stormwater wetland, and rain garden retrofits) and stream and wetland restoration/improvement projects. The assets have been managed by individual departments, sites, and programs to varying degrees of success. In 2020, in order to improve the management consistency of these assets, the Charlotte Storm Water Services Department proposed the development of a Long-Term Stewardship Program (L-TS). This presentation will discuss the initial development of the L-TS program and the phased approach to building and implementing the program, and lessons learned.
Read MoreLos Angeles County’s newly-implemented Safe, Clean Water Program (SCWP) generates $300M per year to specifically address resiliency and stormwater issues by improving water quality, increasing drought preparedness, prioritizing Nature-Based Solutions (NBS), providing disadvantaged community benefits, and promoting green jobs, among other benefits. As the local communities work together to transform the landscape into a more resilient version of itself, one challenge looms large: how do we choose the best suite of projects to balance multiple benefits, maximize return on investments, and allow us to clearly and transparently measure our success? This session describes a groundbreaking collaboration between permitted municipal agencies and local non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that delivers consensus-based policy recommendations rooted in modeling and scientific rigor.
Read MoreWhile the potential for utility delays is a well-known risk for all municipal capital projects, how you tackle these risks can have monumental impacts on the operational efficiencies of utility owners as well as the municipality. At the City of Charlotte, North Carolina, their roadway infrastructure Capital Investment Plan is funded every two years with approximately $100MM, accounting for 150-200 active capital roadway projects. The projects’ scopes vary, but the one constant is that the private utility providers—electric, gas, and telecommunications—will have unavoidable project impacts in most of the projects. In this session, staff from the City of Charlotte, Duke Energy, Piedmont Natural Gas, and AT&T will share their approach, intentions, best practices, lessons learned, and areas of concern in their quest to achieve success for their organizations and partnership.
Read MoreThe International Public Works Director Roundtable is an annual interactive session that targets public works directors (PWDs) or their equivalent across North America. Using the tagline “Where Directors Go to Grow” and their logo, organizers plan to build on the successes in Toronto, Phoenix, Minneapolis, Orlando, Kansas City, and Seattle. The International Public Works Director Roundtables continuously rank as one of the most popular and highest-rated sessions each year. This session is designed to be participatory and maximize engagement with all the directors present. Directors are seated at roundtables encouraging interaction with each other. This session enables directors from across the world to network and learn from each other’s experiences.
Read MoreWhile many agencies and municipalities acquire land for a single purpose, learn from our panelists ways to generate income from rights-of-way and easements and maximize benefits to the public Land…
Read MoreWith more than 11,000 miles of roadways and an annual snowfall amount averaging 131 inches, the Province of New Brunswick's (PNB) winter fleet is no stranger to the "snow fight." Together with telematics partner, Northern BI, Highway Maintenance Engineer Jordan Stephens has been using telematics to manage the 450-plus fleet. Tasked with reducing a $60 million snow clearing budget, Jordan wanted to see if telematics could find areas of waste within the fleet. Having only used paper-based routes for plowing and salt/sand spreading, Northern BI recommended optimizing these age-old processes to improve efficiencies. Hear from PNB's Jordan Stephens, and Northern BI President Dwayne Primeau, on how they are leveraging IoT data to transform the province's winter fleet operations.
Read MoreTop Trending Technology for Field Crews was one of the selected technologies for APWA’s Top Trending Technologies program of 2021. This presentation will provide the audience an introduction to the TTT program in APWA, the background of the top tech for field crews topic, and the technologies explored in the program. The presentation is tailored for those technologies that are most applicable to the snowfighters and winter operations. The APWA Top Trending Technologies program has been very successful and the demand for information from our membership has been robust. The area of field crew technologies, innovations, and tools has been one of the most requested. There are many new and innovative tools for field crews and this session will provide an examination and introduction of those technologies that are currently available and generally accessible to public works crews.
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