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From Tech Transfer Newsletter, Summer 2004
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Road Crashes Reduced 42% In Mendocino County:
Learn How They Did It
(Summer 2004 Tech Transfer Newsletter)
By implementing a simple, but thoughtful program, Mendocino County has achieved a 42% reduction in low volume road crashes.
Their program can help your county do the same-the cost of this program is within every county's reach, including the most sparsely populated farm-to-market county or town.
Learn how they did it
You and your road safety management team are invited to the Mendocino County Road System Traffic Safety Review (RSTSR) Showcase in Ukiah, California on September 28 & 29, 2004.
MCDOT staff will share the details of their program-the start-up, roadway selection, field review, and deficiency correction processes, as well as subsequent treatment evaluation, treatment selection methodology and cost-benefit measurement process details.
The Showcase will include guided visits to previously improved field sites that show both prior conditions and the corrective measures implemented.
Participants will review and evaluate prior conditions and propose and discuss possible corrective actions.
This Showcase is committed to providing all the information and post-Showcase support that agency personnel will need in order to return home and immediately begin implementing an RSTSR program.
To meet that commitment, these key additional support items will be included:
A post-Showcase support group will be available to all participating agency teams for "on call" assistance throughout their entire implementation process.
An easy to use Sign Management System (SMS) software package, developed by the New Hampshire LTAP Center, will be demonstrated and distributed at no cost to interested participants, with post-Showcase user support available through the New Hampshire LTAP Center.
An Asset Management software package, developed by the Utah LTAP Center, will be demonstrated and distributed to interested agency participants, with post-Showcase user support available through the Utah LTAP Center.
Representatives from the Michigan LTAP will explain how local agencies in Michigan banded together to fund and develop a Crash Analysis and Reporting System that is integrated with their local agency Road Surface, Sign, Guardrail, and Pavement Marking management systems.
A Grant Resource Specialist will be available during the Showcase to discuss potential grant sources such as the HES Sign Replacement Programs.
Each participating agency team will be able to schedule a one-on-one meeting with this specialist.
A limited number of Travel Stipends are available.
There are no excuses: now every agency, large or small, has an equal opportunity to participate in this learning experience and have professional support all through their own RSTSR program implementation process.
You should attend if ...
- you are responsible for a large number of low volume roadway miles
- you are responsible for signs and markings of your roadways
- you think safety is important
- you are a public official concerned about roadway safety
Registration Information
The Showcase will convene September 28 & 29 at the Mendocino College in Ukiah, California.
The registration fee is only $125 per person for the two-day Showcase and includes lunch Tuesday and Wednesday, dinner Tuesday night, a complete manual containing illustrations and text of all presentations, and MCDOT sample final report tables.
Registration fees are not refundable but substitutions are welcome.
To register or get more information please visit
www.pdshowcase.org or contact
Daiana Mathis at Tech Transfer, the California LTAP Center, at 510.231.5672 or
daianam@berkeley.edu.
For more information on Mendocino County's Road System Traffic Safety Program
Read the article "Road System Traffic Safety Reviews: Simple and Low-Cost, Yet Effective" by Laura Melendy and Stephen Ford in Tech Transfer, Fall 2003 available on-line at
our newsletter.
View a 9-minute streaming video produced by the Louisiana LTAP Center featuring Stephen Ford, available on the Product Demonstration Showcase web-site at
www.pdshowcase.org.
Special thanks are extended to: Stephen H. Ford, RCE, Mendocino County DOT, for developing and setting this program in motion; Eugene Calvert, PE, former Mendocino County DOT Director, for guiding the development of the TRB award winning paper calling national attention to this program; the Mendocino County DOT management team and the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors for their willingness to share their valuable public safety program with the rest of the nation; and Gib Peaslee and the Florida LTAP Center for creating the Product Demonstration Showcase concept and developing this program to inform and enable others to implement RSTSR programs.
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