Innovation of the Month: Smarter Work Zones

From: FHWA Center for Accelerating Innovation

The Every Day Counts innovation of the month for February is smarter work zones. This innovation provides strategies to optimize road user and worker safety and traffic mobility while highway construction projects are underway.

During the third round of EDC, more than 40 transportation departments across the country are deploying smarter work zones and more than a dozen plan to institutionalize them.

The Federal Highway Administration is encouraging adoption of two smarter work zone approaches:

• Project coordination to minimize work zone traffic impacts involving projects in a corridor, network or region
• Technology applications to improve safety and mitigate congestion by deploying intelligent transportation systems to dynamically manage work zone traffic impacts

To learn more, watch recorded sessions in the smarter work zones webinar series and register for upcoming webinars.

For technical assistance and training, contact EDC-3 Smarter Work Zones Innovation Deployment Team leaders Paul Pisano and Jawad Paracha of the FHWA Office of Operations.