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How Do I Maintain That Ditch?, Joel Fisher, Mark O'Brien Mar 2020

How Do I Maintain That Ditch?, Joel Fisher, Mark O'Brien

Purdue Road School

So you have a drainage ditch that you want to plant. What Indiana native plants would work best to stabilize the banks, benefit monarchs and pollinators, and create beauty? How should it be seeded and maintained? What chemistry should be used to keep the woodies and un-wanted weeds out? How is native seed produced and processed? Join us for a look at what is involved in providing native seed.

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Building Transportation Systems To Connect And Renew North St. Louis, Dustin Riechmann Mar 2020

Building Transportation Systems To Connect And Renew North St. Louis, Dustin Riechmann

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Project Connect is a significant infrastructure investment initiative that promotes the revitalization and redevelopment of North St. Louis City. Spurred by the relocation of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency West, a U.S. DOD support facility; multiple related infrastructure projects; and proximity of a new major league soccer stadium, the initiative will add multi-modal transportation and optimize connectivity for the local road system. This session dives into Project Connect’s extensive improvements, including the major reconstruction of an inter-change along I-64

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How Are They Doing? J-Turns In The Wild, Taylor Ruble, Alan Holderread Mar 2020

How Are They Doing? J-Turns In The Wild, Taylor Ruble, Alan Holderread

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Restricted access U-turn (RCUT) and J-turn intersections are fairly new to Indiana. In the state system, four constructed J-turns have been in service for at least a year. This presentation will report on their effectiveness in crash reduction as well as address common fears and misconceptions about traffic diversion and their use by trucks. We will also speak on the public reception of a J-turn in the LaPorte District.

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Being A Good Teaming Partner, Greg Kicinski, Bryan Donze, Ken Olson Mar 2020

Being A Good Teaming Partner, Greg Kicinski, Bryan Donze, Ken Olson

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Today’s project development process requires firms to regularly team together, necessitating development of strategies that result in maximum collaboration and coordination. As a traditional prime firm (American Structurepoint, Inc.) and a traditional sub firm (Kaskaskia Engineering Group, LLC), we will share best practices that we’ve learned from working with each other and a variety of other firms across the Midwest. We will elaborate on communication and documentation, project schedule and roles, joint QA/QC procedures, maximum responsive-ness, and trustworthy relationships.

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Pavement Recycling And Community Crossings, Patrick Conner, Megan Yount Mar 2020

Pavement Recycling And Community Crossings, Patrick Conner, Megan Yount

Purdue Road School

Since 2016, the State of Indiana has awarded $400 million in Community Crossings Matching Grant (CCMG) funds to support local road and bridge projects throughout Indiana. Several projects have applied pavement recycling processes to rehabilitate and reconstruct urban and rural road-ways utilizing INDOT-developed specifications for full depth reclamation (FDR), cold in-place recycling (CIR), and cold central plant recycling (CCPR). This presentation covers how these construction processes were implemented with these grants to fix many pavements across the state.

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Uas Based Methodology For Measuring Glide Slope Angles Of Airport Precision Approach Path Indicators (Papi), Yi-Chun Lin, Seyyed Meghdad Hasheminasab, John L. Bullock, Deborah Horton, Adam Baxmayer, Ayman Habib, Darcy M. Bullock Mar 2020

Uas Based Methodology For Measuring Glide Slope Angles Of Airport Precision Approach Path Indicators (Papi), Yi-Chun Lin, Seyyed Meghdad Hasheminasab, John L. Bullock, Deborah Horton, Adam Baxmayer, Ayman Habib, Darcy M. Bullock

Purdue Road School

This session presents alternative approaches for using unmanned aerial systems for checking the alignment of precision approach path indicators (PAPI lights). UAS data acquired at the KLAF (Purdue) airport will be used as an illustrative example.

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Marion County Summer 2019 Work Zone Coordination And Closing The Interstate, Roland Fegan Mar 2020

Marion County Summer 2019 Work Zone Coordination And Closing The Interstate, Roland Fegan

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This is the story of a very aggressive construction season in Marion County, Indiana, resulting from extreme winter damage on and around I-465: how we bundled the contracts into lettable packages, overcame a rainy May and June with schedule modifications, and accomplished so much while protecting the workers. Work zone safety will be discussed—in particular the challenges of back-of-queue crashes—and a summary of results and future actions for INDOT and industry will be presented.

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Using Ihsdm-Hsm Predictive Method Software To Model Passing Lanes, Shawn H. Strange Mar 2020

Using Ihsdm-Hsm Predictive Method Software To Model Passing Lanes, Shawn H. Strange

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The FHWA provides free software to evaluate roadway safety and performance. We’ll guide you through the process of using IHSDM-HSM Predictive Method software to evaluate adding passing lanes on US 231 in Tippecanoe and Montgomery Counties.

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Underbody Scrapers And Wings, Bryan Pickworth Mar 2020

Underbody Scrapers And Wings, Bryan Pickworth

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Farmington Hills DPW has developed an award-winning winter operations program by transitioning away from traditional methods. Considering the type and amount of snow in Michigan, you would find it surprising to know that Farmington Hills rarely hooks up its front plows; instead, the DPW relies heavily on the use of underbody scrapers and side wings for snow removal. Join us for a discussion.

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Bim For Bridges And Structures Pooled Fund Initiative, Julie Rivera, Connor Christian Mar 2020

Bim For Bridges And Structures Pooled Fund Initiative, Julie Rivera, Connor Christian

Purdue Road School

The BIM for Bridges and Structures initiative, also known as TPF-5(372), is a transportation pooled fund project that is a collaborative effort of 20 states, FHWA, and the AASHTO Committee on Bridges and Structures. The pooled fund objective is to develop an open, national standard for exchanging information necessary for the design, fabrication, and construction of bridges and structures in the United States. The presentation will provide an overview of the project and explain ways in which stakeholders can get involved.

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Advancing Asset Management At Indot, Louis Feagans Mar 2020

Advancing Asset Management At Indot, Louis Feagans

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As INDOT continues to develop Asset Management, the use of GIS and the mapping of assets become more critical. In this session INDOT will show the advancement in GIS Asset Management that has occurred in the last few years and where we are headed in the future.

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Administer And Manage Construction Projects With Ease, Nick Parr, Craig M. Parks Mar 2020

Administer And Manage Construction Projects With Ease, Nick Parr, Craig M. Parks

Purdue Road School

Trying to balance the daily challenges of a county highway department while managing multiple capital projects and/or contracts can become challenging and sometimes over-whelming. We will present processes and procedures put in place at the Boone County Highway Department to streamline the project development process. We will also discuss tools we have developed to help us maintain project schedules and deliver our capital program.

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Relinquishment And Reconstruction Of Sr 44—Franklin, Indiana, Trent Newport, Mark Richards Mar 2020

Relinquishment And Reconstruction Of Sr 44—Franklin, Indiana, Trent Newport, Mark Richards

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This project involved the downtown section of SR 44, which was relinquished by INDOT to the City of Franklin. Reconstruction was funded through a relinquishment agreement, feder-al-aid funding applications, and local monies. It was a total reconstruction project of over $13 million, built in nine phases over a 4-year span. The project passes through the heart of downtown historic and business districts. This presentation will review all of the coordination and challenges of the project.

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A Rapid Transit Success, Lauren Day, Jennifer Pyrz Mar 2020

A Rapid Transit Success, Lauren Day, Jennifer Pyrz

Purdue Road School

Indianapolis’s first Bus Rapid Transit line opened in September 2019. Leading up to and through its construction, IndyGo imple-mented a range of public engagement tech-niques, from traditional public meetings to small group gatherings to one-on-one engagements. This presentation will highlight the methods of outreach utilized, discuss IndyGo’s motivation behind getting down to the personal level, and share some of the lessons IndyGo will carry forward into its next BRT lines.

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A Railroad Runs Through It - Bass Road/Hadley Road Roundabout, Mike Maurovich, Craig Shroyer Mar 2020

A Railroad Runs Through It - Bass Road/Hadley Road Roundabout, Mike Maurovich, Craig Shroyer

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It’s not often you find a railroad intersecting a roundabout, which makes the Bass-Hadley Roundabout in the City of Fort Wayne a unique intersection with a story you have to hear! We will discuss the design and challenges of the design process; the incorpo-ration of a pedestrian trail; the construction process and its challenges; and now that the intersection is open and operating, a status of how well it is functioning.

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Regulating 5g Installations, Bradley Pease Mar 2020

Regulating 5g Installations, Bradley Pease

Purdue Road School

In this session we will discuss regulation of the deployment of 5G small-cell equipment within local right-of-way.

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Pitfalls Of Interchange Designs: Observations Relating To Idm Chapter 48, Joiner Lagpacan, Mark D. Orton Mar 2020

Pitfalls Of Interchange Designs: Observations Relating To Idm Chapter 48, Joiner Lagpacan, Mark D. Orton

Purdue Road School

This session covers common challenges found on freeway interchange designs here in Indiana. We will go over in detail common pitfalls observed from performing multiple design reviews and problems with designs that do not conform to the still-new Indiana Design Manual (IDM) Chapter 48, “Interchanges.” We will also offer conventional design solutions and alternatives to address these issues and challenges.

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Keeping ‘Em Rolling... From Strollers To Scooters To Semis: Maumee Street Streetscape Improvement, Mike Rechtorik, Amanda Cope Mar 2020

Keeping ‘Em Rolling... From Strollers To Scooters To Semis: Maumee Street Streetscape Improvement, Mike Rechtorik, Amanda Cope

Purdue Road School

Keeping the variety of wheels a-turnin' . . . and a-turnin’ safely in Angola, Indiana, was key when designing the streetscape improvements to Maumee Street, a federal truck route running through the heart of the downtown district. Today, safety challenges have been addressed, and pedestrians stroll along the ADA-compliant sidewalks (originally designed more than a century ago to accommodate the loading and unloading of horse-drawn buggies) adjacent to vehicular traffic that includes a large volume of semi-trucks. Join us for a discussion.

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Load Rating Of Bridges Without Plans, Rafael Armendariz, Mark Bowman Mar 2020

Load Rating Of Bridges Without Plans, Rafael Armendariz, Mark Bowman

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The presentation will address the challenges of load rating bridges without plans and how a four-step procedure can be used to guide the engineer in determining bridge ratings for poorly documented bridges. The procedure is illustrated through the assessment of an earth-en-filled reinforced concrete arch bridge with no available bridge information.

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Six Pillars Of Utility Engineering, Cesar Quiroga, Natalie Parks Mar 2020

Six Pillars Of Utility Engineering, Cesar Quiroga, Natalie Parks

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The Utility Engineering and Surveying Institute (UESI), the newest Institute within the American Society of Civil Engineers, has adopted and strongly promotes the six pillars of utility engineering. This presentation will discuss how each pillar is critical to successful project delivery and how the six pillars can be incorporated into our projects.

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A Look At Indot's Overhead Sign Structures, David Boruff Mar 2020

A Look At Indot's Overhead Sign Structures, David Boruff

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This presentation highlights results of sign sheeting field review and associated changes in policy and standards, as well as how we’re implementing the findings from our overhead sign structure inspection program through the first statewide overhead sign structure repair and replacement contract.

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Truck Platooning: Considerations For Multistate Corridor Deployment, Ben Ritchey Mar 2020

Truck Platooning: Considerations For Multistate Corridor Deployment, Ben Ritchey

Purdue Road School

CDM Smith is developing an operational concept and test plan for FHWA to put truck platoons in revenue service in a multistate corridor. This session presents how to facilitate cross-state collaboration while considering reg-ulatory differences between states, user needs gathering through workshops and interviews, equipment considerations for trucks, working with a host fleet, truck platooning performance measures and the data needed to support them, and human factors in truck platooning.

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Recent Changes To Indot Sign Specs, Lalit M. Garg Mar 2020

Recent Changes To Indot Sign Specs, Lalit M. Garg

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This presentation highlights recent changes to INDOT's standard specifications and standard drawings regarding traffic signs and structures.

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Innovation: Field-Driven Ideas For Improvement, Todd A. May Mar 2020

Innovation: Field-Driven Ideas For Improvement, Todd A. May

Purdue Road School

INDOT has set up its new Department of Innovation. The goal of the Department is to collect, vet, implement, and recognize ideas, processes, and tools specifically generated by the workforce in the field, such as construction, maintenance, contracting, and inspection. Through a peer review vetting process, ideas will be worked through a systems theory/engineer-ing process for ultimate statewide implementa-tion. Join us for a discussion

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2d Hydraulic Modeling For Streambank Stabilization In The White River, Nabil Ghalayini Mar 2020

2d Hydraulic Modeling For Streambank Stabilization In The White River, Nabil Ghalayini

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As part of the new I-69 design in Morgan County, INDOT retained WSP USA to provide streambank stabilization design services for the White River. This presentation will discuss how 1D and 2D hydraulic modeling helped refine the design and include visuals to demonstrate how 1D and 2D models can help establish flow di-rection velocities at riverbanks and around pro-posed structures. A comparison of results from 1D and 2D model results will also be presented

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Specifications For Intersection Conflict Warning Systems, Joseph Bruno Mar 2020

Specifications For Intersection Conflict Warning Systems, Joseph Bruno

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This presentation summarizes the construction and material specifications used for a deployment of intersection conflict warning systems at 18 two-way stop controlled intersections on the state highway system. The presentation also includes information on the draft MUTCD language for intersection conflict warning systems.

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Rehabilitation Of Low-Volume Roads Using Fdr, William Flora Mar 2020

Rehabilitation Of Low-Volume Roads Using Fdr, William Flora

Purdue Road School

NDOT has used full-depth reclamation to re-habilitate low-volume roads on the state-maintained system. FDR improves the life and structural strength of the pavement at reasonable life-cycle cost. This presentation looks at the strength improvement by comparing before-and-after falling weight deflectometer (FWD) testing of pavement sections. In addition, it compares the life-cycle cost of an FDR to a traditional pavement treatment, such as recon-struction or replacement.

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22nd Street Reconstruction, City Of Elwood, Indiana, Haseeb Ghumman, William Savage, Darren Paarkes Mar 2020

22nd Street Reconstruction, City Of Elwood, Indiana, Haseeb Ghumman, William Savage, Darren Paarkes

Purdue Road School

This project involved full-depth reconstruction of 22nd Street, from P Street to Main Street, for an approximate distance of 1 mile and entailed a two-lane roadway with curb and gutter, new sidewalks, a storm system, and water and sanitary line relocations. In addition to federal funds, due to Red Gold’s investment commit-ments in the area and subsequent potential economic development, the project was awarded up to $1.4M in an Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) grant. Join us for a discussion.

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Giving Voice To Silent Stakeholders, Mindy Peterson, Will Wingfield Mar 2020

Giving Voice To Silent Stakeholders, Mindy Peterson, Will Wingfield

Purdue Road School

Only the most motivated stakeholders attend public meetings or submit written comments. To ensure that more people and quieter voices are heard, transportation agencies are supplement-ing public-involvement efforts with interactive, mobile-friendly surveys and in-person inter-views. Learn how tech tools are being used on projects such as the Sherman Minton Renewal to involve the public and provide more data to decision makers.

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Michigan's Inventory-Based Rating System For Unpaved Roads, Peter Torola Mar 2020

Michigan's Inventory-Based Rating System For Unpaved Roads, Peter Torola

Purdue Road School

The current rating systems for unpaved roads lack stability and reliability and, therefore, provide little benefit as project- or network-level metrics. Since many of these systems are derived from paved-road assessment systems, they focus heavily on surface distresses rather than road width, drainage, and other features. This session presents the Inventory-Based Rating System as a stable and implementable method of condition assessment for unpaved roads, without the focus on surface distresses.

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