Forwarding at the request of Rob Foley...
>At least on New York State Department of Transportation roadway
>reconstruction projects, accident data for the project corridor
>is analyzed to reduce and/or eliminate highway incident "hot spots". I
>can't imagine other public agencies doing things any differently. I
>remember on one design project getting about a telephone book sized wad of
>accident report copies (each was a single sheet), covering every smash-up
>that had happened along that 15 mile
>stretch of road in the previous 5 years.
>
>Also, another FYI. Construction zone traffic patterns are not
>randomly laid out by the contractor when he decides to build what when.
>Many drawings in the project plans refer to what is called "Maintenance and
>Protection of Traffic", to separate the construction work zones from the
>travel lanes, and protect workers from errant vehicles and vice versa. On
>a recent project I
>had a 5000 man hour budget to develop these MPT plans and the 6
>constructions stages it took to build everything while keeping 6 lanes in
>operation at all times. It ended up being 150 plan
>sheets out of 775 total.
>
>
>Rob Foley
>Highway Engineering Project Manager for way too long.
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