Baystate Roads Program

The Massachusetts Tri-County Highway Superintendent's Association is pleased to sponsor the 2013 Driver Skills and Safety Training Event. This event is designed to demonstrate teamwork, safety awareness, and vehicle operating skills in a competitive, fun setting. Please note that this event is offered for the Franklin, Hampshire and Hampden County geographic areas and its local highway and municipal departments only.

For all those who attended our workshop series on "How To Read Municipal Plans", we have posted images of the plans used for the workshops to the Baystate Roads Program's Flickr site. You can view the plans by clicking on the link below.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/baystateroads/sets/

Highway designers often face complex trade-offs when developing projects. Applying flexibility and risk management in highway design requires more than simply assembling geometric elements from the available tables, charts and equations of design criteria. This course provides participants with knowledge of the functional basis of critical design criteria to enable informed decisions when applying engineering judgment and flexibility. The course exercises and case studies provide practical applications of current knowledge from research and operational experience of human factors and safety effects for various design elements.

Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:

Join MassDOT and the Baystate Roads Program for the 2013 Massachusetts Pavement Preservation Techniques Showcase. We are bringing together industry experts and municipal public works professionals to discuss the technical merits of pavement preservation maintenance treatments and to hear about how municipalities in Massachusetts are putting them to work.

Don’t miss this opportunity to learn more about Ultrathin Overlays, Stress Absorbing Inter-layers (SAMI), Micro-surfacing, Hot-in-place recycling, Cold-in-Place recycling, Polymer Additives, and more.

The event will take place on June 12, 2013 at the Marriott Courtyard in Marlborough, MA.

For more information and to register go to Pavement Preservation Techniques Showcase.

National Work Zone Awareness Week is held annually to bring attention to motorist and worker safety, as well as mobility issues in work zones.

The 2013 theme highlights the complexities of work zones, and the need for awareness and planning on the part of everyone affected by work zones including: State departments of transportation, road workers, drivers, bicyclists, motorcycles, pedestrians, emergency responders, law enforcement officers, and utility workers.

The Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) National Highway Institute (NHI) offers a series of Design and Traffic Operations courses that provide best practices to help professionals plan, design, operate, and maintain highway work zones that improve safety for workers and the driving public. These courses will help practitioners consider work zone safety and mobility through all project phases.

Select a course title for more information, and to register.