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So Someone Wants To Build A Corporate Aircraft Hangar At Your Airport...What You Need To Know, Christopher Snyder

Purdue Road School

The recovering economy has brought about new interest in corporate aircraft hangars, big and small, which airports themselves are starting to consider as sources of income and new tenants. There are a lot of decisions to be made, from planning, financing, permitting, and design to construction. This presentation covers considerations and design-bid options to get the best price. Completed design and constructed examples from Indiana airports will be presented.

Connect Fortville, Robert Wertman

Purdue Road School

In this session we will discuss the importance and benefits of local public agencies having transportation policies and standards for such areas as access management, street design, bike-pedestrian, and right-of-way dedication. Benefits may include contracted consulting guidance for LPA projects, planning a local transportation system for growth, and future long-range planning for the LPA.

Asphalt Specifications For Local Paving Projects, Kirsten Pauley

Purdue Road School

Proper asphalt specification and design is paramount to an economical and long-lasting road. In 2017, INDOT significantly revised their specifications to achieve higher durability asphalt pavements. As a local public agency or transportation designer, how do those changes affect you as you specify mixes for city and county roads and commercial sites? This session will cover the fundamentals of selecting the right mix designs for your project.

A Path To Enlightenment: Local Transportation Policies And Standards: A City Perspective, Dave Hayward

Purdue Road School

In this session we will discuss the importance and benefits of local public agencies having transportation policies and standards for such areas as access management, street design, bike-pedestrian, and right-of-way dedication. Benefits may include contracted consulting guidance for LPA projects, planning a local transportation system for growth, and future long-range planning for the LPA.

Winter Solutions In Pure Michigan, Bryan Pickworth, Kevin Mccarthy

Purdue Road School

Our northern neighbors from Farmington Hills, Michigan, will share their winter management success stories. Farmington Hills Department of Public Works has developed an award-winning winter operations program by transitioning away from traditional methods. Choosing to travel down a more sustainable and assetfriendly path by using innovative products, training, and reducing the damage caused by deicing. Farmington Hills DPW has been a leader in expanding the use of organic products in its Snow and Ice Control Program.

Utilization Of Unmanned System Technology In Transportation Engineering, Michael R. Williamson, Sam Morgan

Purdue Road School

Drone technology can be very beneficial to transportation engineering by increasing the efficiency of the data collection process and limiting the number of personnel needed, allowing resources to be dedicated to multiple projects simultaneously. However, the technology can be costly. This presentation identifies a cost-effective way to employ drone technology for data collection.

Jasper County Airport: Community Engagement, Ray Seif

Purdue Road School

Community support often requires an ever-increasing effort by an airport to engage both aviation and non-aviation users. Such an effort requires communication and marketing, community involvement, and finding ways to serve the community’s needs. This presentation will outline efforts within each of these areas, providing specific examples along the way.

Skew Effects On Steel Highway Bridges, Lance Peterman, Julie Rivera

Purdue Road School

Bridge skew can significantly add to the complexity of the design, fabrication, and construction. Attendees will gain an understanding the effects of skew on the behavior of steel bridges and how it influences the development of the framing arrangement, bearing configuration, detailing, and fabrication. Discussion includes the importance of a 3D analysis model to accurately predict all component forces, deflections, and rotations.

The Office Of The Indiana Attorney General: Perspectives On Professional Licensing Enforcement And Disciplinary Actions, Jennifer Williams, Gary Kent

Purdue Road School

This presentation details the investigation and litigation processes of the Attorney General’s Office upon receipt of consumer complaints filed against Indiana professional licensees. We will have a round-table discussion with board liaisons from the State Boards of Registrations for Professional Engineers and Professional Surveyors. Time will be reserved for Q&A.

Transforming Your Pavement Ratings Into An Asset Management Plan Tool, Shawn H. Strange

Purdue Road School

In this session we will discuss the steps needed to take a pavement inventory using the PASER method and create an asset management plan that can then be used as a tool to plan your next 5 years’ worth of road maintenance activities. Budgeting and PASER projection can also be used to create exhibits in GIS for public consumption.

I Thought It Was Just Wet Land: A Guide To Environmental Permitting For Airports, Simon Davies

Purdue Road School

Airports face unique challenges in navigating the maze of environmental permitting. This session will provide a guide to that permitting process, including project examples to illustrate innovative solutions.

Identifying Pavement Failures And Effective Base Preparation, William Vavrik

Purdue Road School

You are responsible for rehabilitating a pavement and need to do some patching. Where do you patch? How do you patch? You are building a new pavement from the ground up. How do you know you have a good platform? Come to this presentation and learn how to identify pavement failures, which methods are best used to repair them, and how to properly prepare from the ground up.

What Utilities Wish We Knew, Natalie Parks, Rich Miller, Michael Seals

Purdue Road School

Utility coordination in design has changed, but we still don’t have all the facts. Utility owners have valuable information that could make our coordination efforts even more successful. In this presentation, utility representatives discuss the top three things they wish designers knew and how we can seek to understand the project from their perspective, ultimately saving the project and utility owners alike time and money.

Led Lighting The State Of Led Tariffs And Deployment By Investor-Owned Utilities In Indiana, Ted Sommer

Purdue Road School

Northern Indiana Public Service (NIPSCO) is collaborating with a group of municipalities to initiate a program to replace all fixtures in its service territory with LED fixtures. INDOT has also been preparing for the conversion to LED. In this presentation we discuss this program and its timing, results, and tariff impacts.

Street Lighting Technology Research, Robert Kramer

Purdue Road School

Northern Indiana Public Service (NIPSCO) is collaborating with a group of municipalities to initiate a program to replace all fixtures in its service territory with LED fixtures. INDOT has also been preparing for the conversion to LED. In this presentation we discuss this program and its timing, results, and tariff impacts.

Large-Scale Transit Signal Priority Implementation, Kevin S. Lee, Bailey Lozner

Purdue Road School

In 2016, the District Department of Transportation (DDOT) deployed Transit Signal Priority (TSP) at 195 intersections in highly urbanized areas of Washington, DC. In collaboration with a broader regional implementation, and in partnership with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), DDOT set out to apply a systems engineering–driven process to identify, design, test, and accept a large-scale TSP system. This presentation will highlight project successes and lessons learned.

Driving The Future: Mobility In The 21st Century, Ted Hamer

Purdue Road School

As part of its future-focused infrastructure planning, INDOT is embarking on a project with Purdue University to understand how the development of transportation infrastructure can be linked to benefits to business supply chains, thus enabling decisions to nurture an ecosystem around connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs). KPMG will provide insight into the CAV industry.

Ada Compliance In Work Zones, Kenny Kolberg

Purdue Road School

Sidewalk construction work zones should be accessible to and provide safe, continuous guidance for all pedestrians, yet most sidewalk work zones are neither accessible nor safe. In this session we will review MUTCD and ADA guidelines and specifications and discuss devices and practices used to achieve compliance and accessibility. We will compare actual work zone practices to ADA requirements and applicable local specifications. Three sidewalk work zone case studies will be presented.

Runway Safety Area Slope Failure, Nick Keller, Terry Sayre

Purdue Road School

To increase safety at the busy Yeager Airport in Charleston, West Virginia, an engineered materials arrestor system (EMAS) designed to safely stop aircraft was installed at the end of the runway. During installation, the safety area was expanded by adding a new fill slope in the hilly terrain. In March 2015 the runway safety area collapsed. This is the story of how the airport management team responded to ensure safety and get the repairs funded and completed.

Inspection And Load Rating Of P-T Segmental Bridges, Brett Sauter, Elias Ajami

Purdue Road School

Opened in 1989, the interchange connecting Veterans Memorial Tollway (I-355) and Reagan Memorial Tollway (I-88) in Downers Grove, Illinois, contains four post-tensioned segmental concrete box girder bridges ranging from 558 feet to more than 2,000 feet on horizontally curved alignments. In 2016, Illinois Tollway tasked Ciorba to perform full in-depth inspection, material testing, and assessment of the P-T condition and load rating through finite element analysis. Join us for a discussion.

Autonomous Commercial Vehicles: The Economic Opportunity In Indiana, Ananth V. Iyer

Purdue Road School

As part of its future-focused infrastructure planning, INDOT is embarking on a project with Purdue University to understand how the development of transportation infrastructure can be linked to benefits to business supply chains, thus enabling decisions to nurture an ecosystem around connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs). KPMG will provide insight into the CAV industry.

Extreme Precipitation Events, Impacts, Trends And Projections For Indiana, Sam Lashley

Purdue Road School

The National Weather Service is working with core partners to build a Weather Ready Nation for present and future generations by taking advanced action against the devastating impacts of extreme weather events, including extreme precipitation and flooding. One way in which this can be accomplished is by studying trends in historical weather data and applying what we learn to future mitigation efforts. The goal is to gain a better understanding of the magnitude and impacts that future extreme precipitation events may have on local infrastructure.

This presentation will review extreme rainfall and flooding events that have occurred across Indiana along …

General Aviation Airports: Innovative Revenue Strategies, Yue Gu, Lorraine Holtaway

Purdue Road School

General aviation airports face increasing financial pressures. The more than 2,900 GA airports in the U.S. are very important to the national transportation system and serve other societal needs as well. This presentation contains six innovative strategies for revenue generation and discusses a decision-making process for airport operators to use to select the best revenue generation strategy for their airport.

Implementation Of Lean Methodology In Maintenance Operations, Jon R. Padfield

Purdue Road School

In this session we will discuss the results of an INDOT-sponsored program to facilitate Lean methodology workshops to Maintenance and Operations managers around the state. Attendees will learn how Lean principles and techniques were used to identify and reduce waste in the form of waiting, defects, rework, and more.

Performance Of Full Depth Reclamation (Fdr) And Cold In-Place Recycle (Cir) Projects In Columbus, Indiana, Jason Wielinski

Purdue Road School

Since 2011, Columbus, Indiana, has recycled 20 sections of pavement utilizing either FDR or CIR. Falling weight deflectometer testing was performed on a select number of FDR sections to evaluate their strength after multiple years of service. CIR and FDR sections were also evaluated using Pavision, an automated distress survey device. Recycled projects were compared to similarly aged traditional treatment types. Join us for an update on how these pavement sections are performing.

Indot Prequalification: Information For Local Governments, Jose Murillo

Purdue Road School

The Indiana state legislation changed at the beginning of this year, and prequalification is now a requirement on more projects in the state. The new legislation directly impacts local leaders and engineers responsible for highway public works projects. This session offers further clarification and education about INDOT prequalification.

Scoping And Design Considerations For Aps And Ada Curb Ramps, Adam Tyra

Purdue Road School

The project scope and budget for traffic contracts is often very limited. In this session we will address questions about when existing curb ramps and pedestrian push-buttons must be replaced on traffic contracts and when replacement is optional. We will also review INDOT’s selection criteria for accessible pedestrian signals.

Incorporating Ada And Aps Work On Traffic Contracts: Design Guidance And Construction Standards, Joseph Bruno

Purdue Road School

The presentation provides an overview of the Indiana Department of Transportation's design guidance and construction standards on curb ramps and accessible pedestrian signals. The presentation also summarizes the Indiana Department of Transportation's policy on when existing curb ramps and pedestrian pushbuttons must be upgraded as part of a traffic construction contract and when an upgrade is optional.

Walking Toward Safety, Rick Drumm, Nathan Sheets, Alison Redenz

Purdue Road School

The safety of the most vulnerable of road users—pedestrians—has become a greater focus in Indiana. The data tell us a lot. Several initiatives have been rolled out that center on pedestrian safety. Attendees will gain a greater understanding, appreciation, and vision of pedestrian safety and what can be done about it.

Rockville Road Over I-465, Mike Wenning, Mike Jaskela

Purdue Road School

During the morning commute, a semi-truck carrying a large piece of equipment on I-465 struck the Rockville Road overhead bridge, destroying four prestressed concrete I-beams and causing I-465 northbound and Rockville Road to be closed. Due to INDOT, GAI Consultants, and Rieth-Riley Construction working together to plan, design, and construct the required repairs, the bridge was put back in service within 4 months. Come hear about how innovative procurement, responsiveness, and excellent communication led to the project’s success.