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Research-To-Practice (R2p) Tools For Improving Safety In Nighttime Highway Construction Work Zones, Ali Mostafavi, Vanessa Valentin, Dulcy Abraham
Research-To-Practice (R2p) Tools For Improving Safety In Nighttime Highway Construction Work Zones, Ali Mostafavi, Vanessa Valentin, Dulcy Abraham
Infrastructure System-of-Systems (I-SoS ) Research Group
The safety of workers in nighttime roadway work zones has become a major concern for state transportation agencies due to the increase in the number of work zone fatalities. During the last decade, several studies have focused on the improvement of safety in nighttime roadway work zones; but the element that is still missing is a set of tools for translating the research results into practice. This paper discusses: 1) the importance of translating the research results related to the safety of workers and safety planning of nighttime work zones into practice, and 2) examples of tools that can be …