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Appendix B - Narrative Survey Responses
Appendix B - Narrative Survey Responses
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Construction work in congested urban corridors can take many forms. Please identify the kind of work your agency does on your urban corridors.
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Tennessee 3 The programmatic measures of Smart Transportation, Context Sensitive Design, Context Sensitive Solutions, and FHWA environmental agreements are used during design. Every project starts with a general Traffic Management Plan that is then adjusted using a tool box of items such as road users liquidated damages, lane rentals, and night or off-peak work hours.
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Other -- please specify: Comments: These actions are not specific to congested urban corridors Louisiana Most work in congested urban areas is done as night or off-peak business hours. Metropolitan Planning Organizations attend meetings with community stakeholders.
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Florida 17. Do you use financial incentives for accelerating construction in your congested urban corridors?
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Oregon See comments for question 18. Utah Disincentives are in the construction contract as road users liquidated damages.
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New York 22. Describe a project delivery technique that your agency uses to more effectively construct projects in urban corridors which would be of value to other agencies.
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Ongoing project specific coordination meetings with utility companies even before construction is started g. Other -- please specify: Contracted project specific utility location staff to represent a local public utility owner during construction.
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Colorado N DB -- WSDOT has transferred our legal rights to the contractors. Washington Have INDOT contractor construct utility relocation as part of contract, have INDOT contractor oversee and verify locations of utility relocations, purchase utility easements as part of right-ofway purchasing.
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Pennsylvania 29. What is most difficult about the right of way acquisition process in your state as it relates to constructing projects in urban corridors?
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Colorado 33. What is the average time to acquire a commercial property that doesn't require condemnation?
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Nevada 36. Which of the following strategies does your agency employ to deal with right of way issues relating to construction projects in urban corridors?
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Does your agency assign a project specific individual to its urban corridor projects for the purpose of managing stakeholder issues or public/community involvement activities? (Check one.)
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Arizona 43. Are individual projects "branded" (giving the project a unique identity, logo, name or reference)
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Public notices in the newspaper c. Project specific website d.
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Illinois Comments: Agency is currently looking into social media as an outreach strategy. Oregon 46.
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50. Does your agency assign a project-specific individual to its urban corridor projects for the purpose of managing media relations?
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Other -- please specify: Comments: B The Community Relations Coordinator and District Press Officer work on these relationships. The media has 24/7 access to the press office.
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Georgia Traffic information is supplied to the radio and TV from the Traffic Management Center. Pennsylvania 55.
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Other -- please supply: Comments: None 57. What techniques are your agency using to effectively deal with media relations that you believe would be of value to other agencies?
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How often are other modes (e.g., transit, bicycle, pedestrian) present in your congested urban corridor projects?
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Comment: None Section 9 -- Traffic Management Issues 63. What strategies does your agency use to manage traffic during construction of projects in urban corridors?
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Comment: Utilization of traffic management plan and the web based work zone traffic analysis tool. Full closure during weekends.
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Missouri Traffic Management Plans use phasing for traffic control to reduce project impact. Plans are value engineered and have constructability reviews to verify efficiency.
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Comment: Implementation of Highway Mobility policy and statewide freight/traffic mobility program; use Traffic Management Plans including meeting delay thresholds on corridor basis. Oregon Not sure.
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