LTAP Webinar Recordings
The Iowa Local Technical Assistance Program’s webinar library is being continuously updated with new, relevant seminars that may be of interest to Iowa’s local agencies.
New Iowa LTAP Webinars
Description: Iowa LTAP Safety Circuit Rider David Veneziano led this Iowa LTAP webinar that discusses the state-of-knowledge on the effectiveness and impacts of different regulatory and warning signs, as well as discussion on the installation, maintenance, and removal of signs.
Description: Guest speaker Tim Gates, an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Michigan State University, led this LTAP webinar that focuses on a research project that evaluated various aspects of driveway assistance device (DAD) design, including auxiliary sign messages, signal configuration, and arrow color.
Description: Iowa LTAP Safety Circuit Rider David Veneziano leads this Iowa LTAP workshop that provides a basic introduction into the studies and measurements commonly used by local agencies in the course of daily activities.
Description: Guest speaker Greg Duncan, a senior engineer at Applied Pavement Technology, Inc., led this webinar on causes of longitudinal joint distress, innovative construction options that can mitigate the distress, and repair methods to correct the distress and prolong the need for rehabilitation.
All Iowa LTAP Webinars by Subject
Safety – General
- Safety Countermeasures for Unpaved and Gravel Roads
- Evaluating Statewide Bicycle and Pedestrian Safety Risk Through Systemic Analysis
- Incorporating Safety Into Projects
- Local Road Safety Plan Do-It-Yourself Website Overview
- Reading the Road for Safety
- 2020 Virtual Local Road Safety Workshop
- Countermeasures for Pedestrian Safety – Day 1
- Countermeasures for Pedestrian Safety – Day 2
- Road Diet Overview
- Excavation Safety Overview
- Low Cost Safety Improvements
- Roadside Safety Basics – Day 1
- Roadside Safety Basics – Day 2
- Chainsaw Safety Overview
- OSHA’s Here, Now What?
Safety – Work Zone Related
- Planning & Design Accommodation for Oversize & Overweight Freight in Work Zones
- SWiZAPP – Smart Work Zone Activity App
- Introduction to Work Zone Crash Modification Factors
- Addressing Work Zone Speed and Safety
- Work Zone Safety and Flagger Online Training
- Work Zone Reviews: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- Improving Work Zone Safety: Temporary Rumbles Strips, Smart Arrow Boards, and Other Connected Traffic Control Device Technologies
Operations & Maintenance
LTAP Webinars
- Safety and Operational Effectiveness of Traffic Signs
- Completing Traffic Studies
- 2020 Winter Maintenance Operations Workshop
- Accessible Sidewalks and Curb Ramps: Design to Installation – Day 1
- Accessible Sidewalks and Curb Ramps: Design to Installation – Day 2
- 2020 MUTCD Signing Review – Day 1
- 2020 MUTCD Signing Review – Day 2
- 2020 MoGO Town Hall
Guest Speaker Series
- Keep Your Pavements Zipped-Up! Best Practices for Long-Lasting Longitudinal Joints
- Maintenance and Safety Signs and Sign Supports
- Evaluation of Vehicle-Activated Stop Sign Beacons
- Effectiveness of Pavement Preservation
- CityPCI – A New Approach for Calculating Pavement Condition Index (PCI) for Local Agencies
- Everything you Wanted to Know about Concrete but were Afraid to Ask
- Improving Safety through Vegetation Control and Maintenance of Drainage Features
- Validation of Adjustment Factors for Freeway Work Zone Capacity Calculations
Innovations
Local Agency Bridge Innovation and Demonstration Days
Other Innovations
- Work Zone Driveway Assistance Devices (DADs): Past Research & Evaluation of Display Strategies
- 2020 “Build a Better Mousetrap” Innovations (State and National)
- Composite Press-Brake Formed Modular Steel Tub Girders for County Bridges: Development, Experimental Validation, and Case Studies (Webinar)
- Capabilities and Advantages of Steel Buried Bridges
- Top 20 in Rural Bridge Replacement and Repair Innovations
- Building Intelligence for Next Generation Traffic Management
- A Local Agency Perspective on Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures
- Working with Heated Pavements – Recent Technical Advances
Outreach & Education
- Iowa APWA Fall Conference
- You OK? Suicide Prevention Campaign for the Workplace
- Stress Management Basics (New)
- Ethics in Engineering
- Effective Communication in Work Gone Virtual
- Stress Management Basics
- Remaining Resilient during Challenging Times
- Leadership Skills – Team/Group Development and Organizational Self-Assessment
- Ethical Choices – What Would You Do?
- 2020 APWA Spring into Summer – Day 1
- 2020 APWA Spring into Summer – Day 2