MODULE 2

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• MODULE 2
• By Vit Troyan
• .
• TRANSPORTATION
• Right-of-Way
• Traffic Operations
• Street Maintenance
• One-Call Centers

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Session Learning Objectives Transportation

• Define the Public Right-of-Way
• Understand Right-of-Way Management
• Understand Traffic Operations Objectives
• Understand the Use of a Pavement Management
  System
• Understand the Importance of One-Call Centers
• Know the Uniform Color Code for Underground
  Facilities

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Public Right-of-Way

• Property line to property line
• Includes sidewalk, landscape areas, curb,
  pavement, center islands/medians
• Street is not always in the middle of the public
  right-of-way
• Property line is not always the building front
  (setbacks)
• Work on private property gift of public funds

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Who owns your streets?

• Street Superintendent?
• City Engineer?
• Both?
• Other?
• No one?

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Best Management Practices Right-of-Way Management

• Legal authority (time, place, manner)
• Responsibility for ROW management assigned
• Permit process established for
• Construction
• Use
• Occupancy
• Permit process brochures available
• Permitted work inspected
• ROW management costs recovered

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Best Management Practices Utility Coordination

• System exists to talk to utilities
• Policy establishes utility location, priority and
  clearance
• Long-range plans are coordinated
• Utility records and maps are maintained
• Excavation procedures are adopted
• Legal authority
• Time, place and manner
• Franchises

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Traffic Operations

• Keep people and goods moving safely
• Regulate parking
• Get yelled at by everybody

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Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD)

• Standardizes all
• Traffic signs
• Traffic signals
• Pavement markings
• On or adjacent to
• Streets and highways

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Best Management Practices Street Maintenance

• Operations and maintenance (OM) responsibilities
  assigned
• OM procedures established
• Inspection system established (roads, bridges,
  tunnels, walls, sidewalks, etc.)
• Preventive maintenance program adopted
• Street maintenance coordinated with capital
  improvement projects
• Asset management for streets (pavement management
  system)

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Street MaintenancePavement Management System

• Definition of street segments
• Inventory
• Condition
• Traffic/truck volume (street classification)
• Cost of alternative treatments
• Recommended treatment and cost
• Annual budget needs
• What if? analyses

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Street MaintenanceTypes of Treatment

• Patch (1-3 years)
• Crack seal (1-3 years)
• Slurry seal (3-5 years)
• Chip seal (3-5 years)
• Resurface (10-20 years)
• Mill and fill (10-20 years)
• Reconstruct (15-40 years)

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Street MaintenanceVariables

• Pavement condition
• Type of failure
• Traffic/truck volume
• Money
• Citizen patience
• Political will

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Best Management PracticeOne-Call Centers

• Keeps things from going boom
• Mark area of construction
• Call before you dig
• 48 hours to mark
• Responsibility for boom

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Best Management PracticeUniform Color Code for
Temporary Marking of Underground Facilities

• WHITE
• PINK
• RED
• YELLOW
• ORANGE
• BLUE
• PURPLE
• GREEN

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Uniform Color Code for Temporary Marking of
Underground Facilities

• WHITE Proposed excavation
• PINK Temporary survey markings
• RED Electric power, lighting
• YELLOW Gas, oil, steam
• ORANGE - Communication
• BLUE Potable water
• PURPLE Reclaimed water
• GREEN Sewers and storm drains

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Emerging Issues in Transportation

• Americans with Disabilities Act
• Aging population
• Traffic calming/streetscaping
• Smart highways/roadways
• Photo enforcement
• Increases in oil prices
• Alternate transportation modes (bicycles,
  motorcycles, jogging paths)