Technology News
Since the early 1980s, Technology News has served the Iowa LTAP as an important venue for exchanging transportation-related information with local agencies.
Our quarterly newsletter gives up-to-date information on new technology, roadway specifications, and news happenings both here in Iowa and across the country. Starting in spring 2025, the newsletter will be all electronic. To subscribe to receive the electronic edition, click the button on the right sidebar.
Preparation of this newsletter is financed through LTAP, a nationwide effort financed jointly in Iowa by the Federal Highway Administration and the Iowa Department of Transportation.
2024
- Technology News to be all electronic next quarter
- From the Director: Embrace hope
- LTAP develops roadway cross section reconfiguration question-and-answer series
- In brief: Lasting LTAP impacts
- Prototype tool aims to help counties quantify impacts of superloads
- Workshop and conference calendar
- Iowa Build a Better Mousetrap winner named
- From the Director: Roles of a lifetime
- LTAP welcomes Sherrie LaFleur
- Current Technology News is penultimate print edition of newsletter
- Partially grouted revetments offer cost-effective countermeasure for scour
- In brief: Lasting LTAP impacts
- Workshop and conference calendar
- PROSPER project finds long-term benefits from Otta seal treatments
- From the Director: Möbius Strip Message
- In brief: Lasting LTAP impacts
- Technology News to transition to all-electronic edition
- CP Tech Center reviews opening of concrete pavement to traffic
- Spreadsheet tool aids local agencies in optimizing gradation
- Workshop and conference calendar
- Smartphone app aids agencies in collecting road data
- From the Director: The Way of Deep Seeing
- In brief: Lasting LTAP impacts
- Technology News to transition to all-electronic edition
- Iowa LTAP’s resources now includes webpage on CDL regulations
- Iowa LTAP now accepting applications for Mousetrap contest
- CP Tech Center publishes reduced carbon guide
- Workshop and conference calendar
2023
- Pedestrian safety design considering winter maintenance
- From the Director: The action of non-action
- In brief: Lasting LTAP impacts
- Technology News to transition to all-electronic edition
- Open house highlights geosynthetic base stabilization research
- 12 cities win work zone sign packages
- Workshop and conference calendar
- Iowa Build a Better Mousetrap winner named
- From the Director: Murmuration inspiration
- Iowa LTAP marks 40 years
- Technology News to transition to all-electronic edition
- New tool helps agencies determine structural capacity of pavements
- In brief: Lasting LTAP impacts
- Meet David Carney, new SUDAS director
- Workshop and conference calendar
- CP Tech Center publishes final report on PEM pooled fund
- From the Director: Scooby-DOOs, what are you?
- Low Volume Roads Conference: Register today for July 23–26 event
- CTRE project tackles trail management
- New soil testing device developed at InTrans
- Tips to stay safe in the summer heat
- Workshop and conference calendar
- In brief: Lasting LTAP impacts
- New traffic signal design developed at InTrans reduces wind-induced vibration, and costs
- From the Director: Artificial intelligence (AI) – enough already!!!
- LTAP offers resources to navigate infrastructure law
- Low Volume Roads Conference: Register today for July 23–26 event
- BEC concludes two FHWA projects
- Safety performance functions offer new insights into intersection crashes
- In brief: Lasting LTAP impacts
- Iowa LTAP now accepting applications for Mousetrap contest
- Workshop and conference calendar
2022
- Winter safety tips
- From the Director: Lean into joy
- LTAP welcomes Kori Mahieu
- Low Volume Roads Conference: Register today for July 23–26 event
- 2022 Traffic and Safety Forum touts Safe System approach
- CP Tech Center publishes new edition of Concrete Pavement Preservation Guide
- In brief: Lasting LTAP impacts
- Workshop and conference calendar
- Iowa Build a Better Mousetrap winners named
- From the Director: Embrace it all. Just as it is.
- Low Volume Roads Conference: Registration now open!
- GTSB reinstituting the High 5 Rural Traffic Safety Program
- Iowa PWSB aims to connect cities of all sizes
- In brief: Lasting LTAP impacts
- Workshop and conference calendar
- Evaluating driver behavior at rural stop-controlled intersections
- From the Director: Within resilience is…?
- Revamped statewide project management system improves efficiency of county transportation projects
- Iowa LTAP events in full swing this spring
- In brief: Lasting LTAP impacts
- CP Tech Center publishes Guide to Concrete Overlays of Asphalt Parking Lots
- Workshop and conference calendar
- Spreadsheet tool aids in pavement analysis
- From the Director: Wisdom of Grandpa
- Iowa LTAP now accepting applications for Mousetrap contest
- In brief: Lasting LTAP impacts
- Reminder: New CDL requirements in effect
- Knapp earns ICEA Special Service Award
- CP Tech Center publishes Quality Control for Concrete Paving guide
- Workshop and conference calendar
2021
- SUDAS establishing Iowa Public Works Service Bureau
- From the Director: Cultivating connectedness
- Traffic and Safety Forum asks “What does safety mean to you?”
- CP Tech Center publishes update to Guide to Concrete Overlays
- Aurora Program research projects consider optimal RWIS density and location
- In brief: Lasting LTAP impacts
- Data integration efforts aid in assessing crash factors
- Workshop and conference calendar
- Iowa Build a Better Mousetrap winners named
- From the Director: Inserting humanity back into the conversation
- In brief: Lasting LTAP impacts
- Work Zone Sign Package Program application period opens this fall
- “I’ve had a good run”
- Traffic studies are useful tool for local agencies
- Improving safety through vegetation control and maintenance of drainage features
- Workshop and conference calendar
- Work Zone Safety Sign Package Program winners
- From the Director: The new lens
- In brief: Lasting LTAP impacts
- LTAP completes training needs survey
- LTAP Innovations website tab live
- LCCA tool evaluates costs for Iowa’s bridge decks
- Data-driven tool can aid in identifying non-motorist crash trends
- What’s the big Idea?
- An introduction to UAS (in transportation)
- Workshop and conference calendar
- Pile assessment tool evaluates steel H-pile capacity
- From the Director: Embracing the “I don’t know”
- In brief: Lasting LTAP impacts
- CP Tech Center releases Guide to Lightweight Cellular Concrete for Geotechnical Applications
- Iowa DOT earns TSMO award
- Iowa creates virtual public involvement tool
- Entries welcome for Mousetrap contest
- Road diets: An overview and opportunities to STEP UP
- Workshop and conference calendar
- Iowa LTAP library resources available
2020
- Smart Work Zone Activity App (SWiZAPP) makes work zones work
- From the Director: Acceptance and gratitude
- Snowplow route optimization offers big potential
- In Brief: Lasting LTAP Impacts—Worker Safety Training Resources How-To
- New spreadsheet tool helps determine optimum time for equipment replacement
- FHWA announces EDC-6 initiatives
- Stress management and resiliency resources available
- Radar recording equipment available for loan
- Workshop and conference calendar
- Welcome Shari Butterfield to LTAP
- Iowa Build a Better Mousetrap winners named
- From the Director: The “Known” Stranger
- In brief: Lasting LTAP impacts
- CP Tech Center releases Guide to Cement-Stabilized Subgrade Soils
- Successful strategies for pavement preservation
- ATSPMs make traffic signal management proactive, not reactive
- “A Great Big Thank You” from Iowa LTAP
- Workshop and conference calendar
- Granular Roads Asset Management System (GRAMS) tool can aid agencies
- With traffic down, Iowa gears up for full construction season
- From the Director: Gratitude and the “communities of we”
- In brief: Lasting LTAP impacts
- Work Zone Safety Sign Package Program winners
- CP Tech Center releases Guide to Concrete Trails
- Iowa DOT Soils Design advances use of geophysical technologies with the A-GaME innovation
- Best practice guidelines for real-time smoothness technology now available
- Work Zone Data Exchange project aids in navigation and safety in work zones
- Workshop and conference calendar
- Free web-based training opportunities abound
- From the Director: Being comfortable with the uncomfortable
- LTAP is here as a resource for you!
- Iowa DOT message on bridge load posting
- Big ideas expressed at County Engineers Research Focus Group
- The Iowa Model: Developing a multi-service layered TSMO program plan
- Entries welcome for Mousetrap contest
- Summit focuses on first responders’ safety
- In brief: Lasting LTAP impacts
- Workshop and conference calendar
2019
- The relationships between weather and roadway safety
- From the Director: A season of gratitude
- Video demonstrates epoxy injection process
- Research aims to prepare local agencies for CAV future
- Otta seal offers economic surfacing option for low-volume roads
- Iowa Crash Analysis tool (ICAT)
- In brief: Lasting LTAP impacts
- Workshop and conference calendar
- New safety training resources available on LTAP site
- Iowa’s Build a Better Mousetrap winners announced
- From the Director: Living with intention
- Unmanned aircraft help improve quality, cost, and safety at Iowa DOT
- Iowa’s grant for the Competitive Highway Bridge Program
- FHWA publishes Concrete Pavement Preservation Checklists
- New FRC tool and publications issued by CP Tech Center
- Tailgate Talks give tips for quick safety training opportunities
- Workshop and conference calendar
- Speed feedback equipment available for loan
- Iowa DOT taking STEPs to improve pedestrian safety
- From the Director: Information, knowledge, and wisdom
- Iowa DOT leverages funds for box beam bridge bundling project
- FHWA releases Low-Cost Safety Improvements videos
- REACTOR Lab research focuses on work zone safety
- CP Tech releases next-generation Integrated Materials and Construction Practices (IMCP) Manual
- New Innovations page planned for LTAP site
- Transportation research investigates flooding impacts
- Workshop and conference calendar
- Iowa LTAP Tech Corner—Iowa 511 app
- REACTOR Lab tool aids in traffic incident management response
- From the Director: Deconstruction and renewal
- Submissions welcome for Iowa’s Build a Better Mousetrap Competition
- Safe Driver Manual offers model policies for local agencies
- Using local, native plants has benefits to roadside maintenance
- LTAP expands equipment loan program
- Design techniques protect roadway embankments, reduce damage during flooding
- Workshop and conference calendar
- Iowa LTAP Tech Corner—PaveCool
2018
- Snow and ice control: Tips for effective winter maintenance
- From the Director: Knowledge and wisdom – When less is more
- Innovations conference a success
- Iowa LTAP training program attracts record number of participants
- From the Safety Desk: A letter from Lee County
- Iowa selects EDC-5 innovations focus areas
- Workshop and conference calendar
- Iowa LTAP Tech Corner—NOAA Weather Radar & Alerts
- Sky’s the limit with drone technology
- From the director: Them, Us, All
- AASHTO TC3 library opens to practitioners
- Winner named in 2018 “Build a Better Mousetrap” competition
- From the Safety Desk: Creating a safe driving program for workers
- Federal-aid funding swap
- Workshop and conference calendar
- Iowa LTAP Tech Corner—Roadside Safety Field Guide
- LTAP celebrates 35 years
- From the director: Applying fluid presence
- InTrans holds successful first Innovation Demonstration & Training Day
- Innovation webinars
- Planning for safer local roads
- From the Safety Desk: Work zone safety is year-round job, aided by new technologies
- InTrans centers help with bridging the gaps
- Workshop and conference calendar
- Iowa LTAP Tech Corner—The Slope Calculator
- New procedures offer guidance for using bonded whitetopping on asphalt pavements
- From the director: LTAP diversity and gratitude
- Math proves the savings in pavement preservation strategies
- From the Safety Desk: Iowa DOT, InTrans facilitate collaborative road safety discussions
- 5 Questions with Gordon Smith concerning the National Concrete Pavement Technology Center
- Workshop and conference calendar
- Iowa LTAP Tech Corner—Indiana LTAP Field Quantities Calculator
2017
- Winter maintenance assessment tool helps reduce salt use
- From the director: Transformation: Embrace the compost
- Lenzini joins LTAP as program assistant
- Federal Highway Administration launches roadway safety hardware microsite
- Ultra-high performance concrete connections for PBES
- From the Safety Desk: Teamwork & collaboration key strengths of Statewide MDST Program
- Ultra-high performance concrete and bridge infrastructure go hand-in-hand
- Piling design training in Ames
- Iowa LTAP Tech Corner—USLIMITS2 web-based tool
- Workshop and conference calendar
- Project consultation key goal of 2017 Iowa Tribal Summit
- From the director: Iowa statewide “mousetrap” competition – 2017 and beyond
- Q&A with leaders at the Center for Transportation Research and Education
- Countermeasures improve pedestrian safety
- From the Safety Desk: Ahead of the curve(s)
- Researchers seeking new way for counties to recycle gravel on roads
- Conference calendar
- Iowa LTAP Tech Corner—CDL Prep mobile app
- Work Zone Safety Sign Package Program winners
- From the director: National strategic planning and its impact on the Iowa LTAP
- New technology for backup alarms: Eliminate noise nuisance complaints and improve safety
- FHWA releases flexible roadway design key to safer streets
- MoGO in Ames
- From the Safety Desk: To pave or not to pave
- Pavement preservation (when, where, and how)
- Conference calendar
- Iowa LTAP Tech Corner—PaveCool mobile app
- Iowa LTAP study yields publication on traffic sign effectiveness
- From the director: Building a Better Iowa Mousetrap
- Safety items available for checkout through Equipment Loan Program
- Meet John Shaw, Iowa LTAP Local Roads Safety Liaison
- Engaging the employee base
- 5 Questions with Travis Hosteng concerning the National Center for Wood Transportation Structures
- Iowa LTAP Tech Corner—FEMA mobile app
- Conference calendar
2016
- How truck speed and distribution method influence salt bounce and scatter
- From the director: Finding a “vocation”
- Online winter maintenance resources
- Meet Danny Waid, ICEA Service Bureau secondary roads research engineer
- FAST Act update
- LPA Stakeholder Partnering group established for Iowa
- The VIEW from here: 2016 Excavation Safety Trainings
- The VIEW from here: 2016 Local Road Safety Workshops
- Iowa LTAP Tech Corner – Iowa 511 app
- Conference calendar
- Snow and ice control 101
- From the director: The everchanging and expanding sphere
- Safety tips for snowfighters
- Protecting our bridges for the future
- Prevent workplace backing accidents
- Accommodating bicyclists and pedestrians on rural roads
- Iowa LTAP Tech Corner – Sound Meter app
- Conference calendar
- Stop signs not always the answer to stopping crashes at rural intersections
- From the director: Why Tacoma training? Or…
- Iowa LTAP Tech Corner – Work Zone Safety app
- DIY slide-in bridge construction (SIBC) training available
- Larry Grant new to MDST Coordinator position
- Consistent signing in work zones = Consistent driver expectancy
- Conference calendar
- Dealing with frost boils and heaves
- From the director: This wonderful “true sphere”
- Temporary Traffic Control Handbook is portable, new
- New pilot service: Online streaming videos
- Updated Gravel Roads Construction & Maintenance Guide available
- Trenching and excavation safety
- Iowa LTAP Tech Corner—The Slope Calculator
- Conference calendar
2015
- Snow and ice control: Tips for effective winter maintenance
- From the director: “It’s all about perspective”
- Clinton County, Iowa, finds a stabilized road resurfacing solution
- InTrans welcomes program manager/MDST facilitator
- Q&A with David Veneziano, safety circuit rider
- Technology and communicating go hand-in-hand
- Conference calendar and subscription feedback survey
- What is LiDAR? Can it work for you?
- From the director: Be “ever vigilant”
- Meet Paul LaFleur, FHWA engineer
- Hamilton County adapts cell phones as cost-efficient AVL system
- The important role of personal protective equipment to a safety program
- Erosion control tips for road and bridge work
- Conference calendar
2014
- AVL systems increase efficiency of Johnson County fleet
- From the director: Looking back and looking forward
- Happe assumes LTAP program assistant position
- Materials from the Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library
- Boone County Expo research key findings
- InTrans welcomes local roads safety liaison
- Calendar
- Albritton takes technical training coordinator position at LTAPs
- From the director: Change is the only constant
- Effects of PWL at Iowa DOT
- Iowa DOT to change tree removal specifications
- CEER partners with Iowa DOT to research pavement foundation design technologies
- InTrans welcomes communications specialist
- Calendar
- NEW Roads Scholar program coming fall 2014
- Bob Sperry recognized for traffic safety efforts
- And now we say “Goodbye” to Bob
- Train for today and tomorrow
- New intersections move traffic efficiently and safely
- Diverging diamonds are coming to Iowa
- County engineers focus on research
- Calendar
- Underbridge Inspection Vehicles available to local agencies
- From the director: Change and opportunity
- GIS-based traffic sign application helps Ames meet federal mandates
- New requirements for nighttime personal protective equipment (PPE) extended to contractors
- Local Road Safety Plan peer exchange
- New resources for deploying 3D engineered models and slide-in bridge construction
- Calendar
2013
- Iowa LTAP remembers Tom McDonald
- From the director: Cold Iowa winds
- ADA sidewalk curb ramp clarifications
- Update: Funding for safety improvements on Iowa’s secondary roads
- Master Roads Scholars recognized
- Iowa responds: Asset management requirements of MAP-21
- Conference/workshop calendar
- Safety mitigation strategies for low-volume, unpaved rural roadways
- From the director: Join the team!
- Iowa Snow Roadeo 2013
- 12 tips for maintaining unpaved roads
- Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library: New materials
- Conference/workshop calendar
- Automating Iowa DOT lettings and contract administration
- From the director: Rebuilding the “Roads Scholar” program: Evaluation and redesign
- For iron and steel used in construction, Buy America
- Safety assessments to improve local road safety
- Roads Scholar program notice
- Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library: New materials
- Tom McDonald honored for traffic safety advocacy
- Conference/workshop calendar
- Low-cost safety measures for high-crash curves
- From the director: Spring has sprung…or has it
- Benefits of roundabouts in rural Iowa
- Rural Roads, bridge funding under MAP-21
- Funding changes for high-risk rural roads
- Funding changes for local bridges
- Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library: New materials
- Conference/workshop calendar
2012
- Effective repair of timber bridge pilings and back walls
- Message from Director Keith Knapp: The New Year–2013
- Be smart about soil compaction
- Funds available to replace overhead flashing beacons at intersections
- Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library: New materials
- Conference/workshop calendar
- Take advantage of winter training opportunities
- Micro-surfacing for pavement rehabilitation
- Message from Director Keith Knapp: Development of new resources
- FHWA Every Day Counts: Adaptive signal control technology
- FHWA’s web-based Federal-aid resource for local public agencies
- Conference/workshop calendar
- 2012 Iowa Snow Roadeo winners
2011
- 2011 Snow Roadeo winners
- Message from Director Keith Knapp: A look back, and bring on the new year
- Ten commandments for working with your county board
- EDC-EXCHANGE: Connecting the national transportation innovation network
- Iowa experiments with a “greener” pavement option
- Highlighted new materials in Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library
- Conference/workshop calendar
- Complying with new (MUTCD) retroreflectivity standards for roadway signs
- Message from Director Keith Knapp: Change is the one constant
- Don’t be fooled by the headlines: Proposed changes to MUTCD compliance dates are not a done deal
- Intelligent technology for stop-controlled intersections
- Highlighted new materials in Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library
- Conference/workshop calendar
- Online Leadership Institute update
- Bridge inspection policies and procedures
- Message from Director Keith Knapp
- Bridge inspection checklist
- MUTCD changes
- Road Use Tax transfer for cities under 500 population
- Highlighted materials in Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library
- Conference/workshop calendar
- Iowa gets the safety edge
- Message from Director Keith Knapp
- Proposed FY 2012 federal transportation budget
- How to register for a workshop online
- Update re Iowa Public Employees Leadership Academy
- Highlighted materials in Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library
- Conference/workshop calendar
- National Work Zone Safety Awareness week
- Introducing Kris Angaran, new LTAP assistant
2010
- Director’s message
- 2011 Work Zone Safety Workshops
- 2011 and 2012 Compliance Dates in 2009 MUTCD
- Conference calendar
- Fall LTAP events and awards
- Going green in snow management
- Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library new acquisitions
- Best safety practices: lighting/intersections
- Check it out (director’s column)
- Circling the roundabout
- Conference calendar
- Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library new acquisitions
- Overview of 2009 MUTCD
2009
- Best safety practices: pavement markings and rumble strips
- Davenport’s crossing guard program
- 2009 Roadeo winners
- Shop focus: Iowa winter maintenance news and video online
- Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library: New acquisitions
- From the Iowa DOT library
- Best safety practices: traffic calming
- High-tension cable barriers
- Goodbye from the LTAP director
- Record-setting symposium
- Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library: New acquisitions
- From the Iowa DOT library
- Best safety practices: signing and delineation
- Honoring Tom Maze
- Shop focus: Thin maintenance surfaces
- Watch for slow moving vehicles on Iowa’s rural roadways
- Chain saw safety
- Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library: New acquisitions
- Battery-powered bikes come to ISU
- Conference calendar
- Mid-Continent Transportation Research Symposium
- Leadership Academy gets off the ground
- Shop focus: Ditch drainage
- Two-lift concrete paving
- CTRE becomes an institute
- Free web-based training
- Design Guidance for Roadway Subgrades and Subbases
- Best Practices for Low-Cost Safety Improvements
- Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library: New acquisitions
- Conference calendar
- Motor grader operator workshops
2008
November – December 2008 (PDF)
- Shop focus: Snow and ice control 101
- Safety tips for snowfighters
- Salt away for winter
- The Iowa LTAP staff
- Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library: New acquisitions
- Ten commandments for snowfighters
- Conference calendar
- Interactive Highway Safety Design Model available for free download
September – October 2008 (PDF)
- Shop focus: Preparing your equipment for winter
- 2008 Snow Roadeo winners
- Fenced in: Keeping snow off the road
- Just for street and road workers: Routine bridge observation activities
- Just for street and road workers: Routine bridge work
- LTAP 25th Anniversary: The Iowa LTAP Advisory Board
- Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library: New acquisitions
- Conference calendar
- Low-cost safety and traffic studies workshops
- Tractor-Mower workshops a success
- Reducing water pollution through stormwater BMPs
- Not-so-new urban specifications for Iowa DOT
- Shop focus: Mowing operations
- LTAP 25th Anniversary: Focus on special events and programs
- Complete streets: Improving the health and safety of your community
- Free web-based concrete materials training available through the National Highway Institute
- Rumble stripes may increase rural roads’ safety
- Finding the ideal hot mix asphalt pavement mixture
- Library acquisitions
- Upcoming Iowa Roundabouts Conference
- Conference calendar
- LTAP 25th Anniversary: Focus on training
- New faces, familiar faces attend advisory board meeting
- Road safety audit? Assessment?
- Buchanan County honored for railroad flatcar bridges
- MUTCD revision on the horizon
- Tractor/Mower Operator Safety Training
- Conference calendar
- Soggy spring gravel roads: Dealing with a bumper crop of frost boils
- LTAP 25th Anniversary: The Safety Circuit Rider Program
- Just for street and road workers: A checklist of shoulder maintenance issues
- Shop focus: Tire care and safety
- Library acquisitions
- Tractor/Mower Operator Safety Training
- Conference calendar
- 25 years of service for Iowa LTAP
- Iowa’s Mr. LTAP: Stan Ring
- Shop focus: Personal protective equipment
- Just call Bob: A new safety resource for Iowa’s cities and counties
- New sign retroreflectivity rules require management plans
- November 24: Worker visibility compliance
- Library acquisitions
- Conference calendar
- June 15 application due date for traffic safety funds
- New online, on-demand supervisory training available
2007
- Cameras reduce red light running crashes in Iowa
- Buchanan County honored for railroad flatcar bridges
- Small town signs program just got better
- Virtual training opportunities are plentiful
- Moodle your way to better supervisory skills
- Snow Roadeo winners 2007
- Earlier application due date for TSF program
- Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library: New acquisitions
- New video captures perspectives on national transportation challenges
- Conference calendar
- Improving granular shoulder performance
- Unlocking the secrets of cold-in-place recycled asphalt pavements
- Giving contractors some flexibility in project timing
- Low-cost safety improvements for horizontal curves
- Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library: New acquisitions
- Not-just-for-engineers guide to concrete pavements
- County crash data available
- Welcome CTRE’s new director
- Just for street and road workers: Repair, strengthen, and protect: Hot mix asphalt overlays
- Conference calendar
2006
November – December 2006 (PDF)
- If/When to pave a gravel road
- SAFETEA-LU highlights for local transportation agencies, Installment II: Earmarks and their impacts on core funding
- 2006 snow “roadeo” winners
- What do kids want to be when they grow up? Tell them to Go!
- Just for street and road workers: Seal coats and full-depth repair of asphalt pavements
- Vehicle safety: Watch your backing
- Compliance deadlines: Help drivers see workers, read signs
- Survey for engineers and supervisors: What are your training needs?
- Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library: New acquisitions
- Conference calendar
September – October 2006 (PDF)
- Making school zones safer
- About the school zone toolbox
- Iowa’s first high-performance steel bridge
- SAFETEA-LU highlights: Safety programs for Iowa’s local transportation agencies
- Work zone safety workshops for 2007
- Pavement edge drop-off
- Recovering safely if you drive off the edge
- Constructing a “safety edge”
- Just for street and road workers
- Asphalt pavement maintenance: Selecting the right treatment
- Routine asphalt pavement maintenance
- Getting teens excited about careers in transportation
- Conference calendar
- Just for street and road workers
- Interacting with the public
- Adjusting the motor grader blade
- Maintaining shoulders on granular surfaced roads
- Providing dust control
- General safety tips for street and road workers
- 2005 Better Mousetraps
- Plow mounting procedure change for Wausau down-pressure plow
- Skid loader attachment rack
- Hydraulic hose organizer for batwing mower
- CTRE houses new weather research center
- Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library: New acquisitions
- Conference calendar
- Four venues for 2006 Winter Maintenance Training Workshop
- New location and competition for Iowa’s 2006 “Snow Roadeo”
- Still a deadly danger for road workers
- Good job, Roads Scholars!
- Safety award to Zach Hans
- Iowa LTAP has moved
- Final Iowa rule on obstructions in ROW
- Three lanes really can be safer than four
- Safety training aids
- Eliminate (almost!) those blind spots
- 2005 Better Mousetraps
- Online publications for local agencies
- Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library: New acquisitions
- Conference calendar
- Roundabouts in rural America
- Roundabouts resources
- Safe Routes to School
- Low-volume rural intersections: How much control do they need?
- Goodbye and thank you, Fred Short
- Welcome, Clarence Perry—new MoGO workshop coordinator
- About Iowa’s MoGo workshops
- Careers in transportation
- Cedar Rapids uses speed-monitoring trailer in its safety program
- Planning program for small towns receives national honor
- Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library: New acquisitions
- Conference calendar
2005
- Spanish as a second language
- Roads Scholar update
- Update on train horn final rule
- A digital world of pavements
- Measuring the smoothness of wet concrete pavement
- Using fly ash to stabilize non-uniform subgrade soils
- Iowa SUDAS: It’s just good for you
- Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library new acquisitions
- Conference calendar
- New look for Technology News
- Improving signalized intersections
- School zone safety programs
- Identifying bridge approach problems, causes, and possible solutions
- “Build a Better Mousetrap” winners for 2005
- 2005 “roadeo” winners
- Road safety audits for local agencies
- Access management and highway safety
- Reap the benefits of coordinated transit services
- Multidisciplinary safety groups work to improve safety
- Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library new acquisitions
- Upcoming training events
- Conference calendar
May – June 2005
- Wapello County will build first-in-the-nation bridge
- Highway applications for aggregate columns
- Rural intersections benefit from street lights
- Simple safety strategies to help older drivers
- Crash analyses: Identifying problem locations and funding mitigation strategies
- August 15 deadline to apply for traffic safety improvement funds
- Iowa’s Safety Management System: A decade of accomplishments
March – April 2005
- Road quiz
- Spring checkup for local bridges
- Tire tips for tire life and worker safety
- Understanding drainage law
- Improving traffic safety on a shoestring budget: Iowa’s take on a California model
- “Narrower” road lanes may improve traffic safety
- Additional low-cost safety improvements
- Designing accessible pedestrian facilities: Common problems and solutions
- Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library new acquisitions
January – February 2005
- Building bridges with long spans on low-volume roads
- Raising public awareness about work zone safety
- Resources for road workers and their families
- Helping small agencies fund traffic safety consultations
- No TSIP funds for LED signal head replacements
- Designing accessible pedestrian facilities
- Providing drivers with a clear, adequate line of sight
- On the (concrete) road again
- Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library new acquisitions
- Have you subscribed yet to “Tech E-News”
2004
November – December 2004
- Safe rail crossings without train horns
- Subscribe to “Tech E-News”
- Improving safety for older drivers
- Optimizing pavement bases for good drainage
- Improving safety at expressway intersections
- Winter driving: risks, costs, and safety strategies
- Watching out for winter walkers’ welfare
- Roll out the barrels: “roadeo” results
- Traffic data collection methods you can count on
- Liability checklist for local road departments
- Mid-Continent Transportation Research Symposium
- Training available on security reporting
- Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library new acquisitions
September – October 2004
- Re-covering a bridge to the past
- Protecting Iowa’s covered bridges
- Subscribe to “Tech E-News”
- Stringless paving: a promising alternative
- Expressway crash data tell an interesting tale
- Simplified spot speed studies
- Traffic safety funds purchase replacement signs
- Better Mousetrap: Telspar hand driver hits the spot
- MUTCD proposed amendment re sign retroreflectivity
- Work zone safety final ruling published
- Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library new acquisitions
June – August 2004
- Envisioning a more beautiful community
- Dollars and sense of urban pavement markings
- Pavement marking paint test in the works
- Big and not-so-big digs
- When the “school” bus isn’t yellow
- Saleem Baig retires
- A website just for Iowa’s local agencies
- Expo becomes “road show”
- SUDAS goes corporate
- Better Mousetrap: Portable stop sign and modified sign trailer
- Spot the motorcyclist (oops!)
- Video documents rare bridge construction method in Iowa
- New acqusitions, Stanley L. Ring Memorial Library
- You say “camino,” I say “road”
- New guardrail system should save lives
- Blended cements improve (and complicate) concrete mixtures for pavements
- Traffic Safety Improvement Program (TSIP) could fund your project
- Raising motorcycle safety awareness
- Keeping up with Iowa’s pavement management program
- Better Mousetrap: Sign trailer modification
- Wake up drivers with milled rumble strips
- Take advantage of free crash data analysis and mapping service
- Where the rubber really meets the road
- High-performing bridge decks
- Computer-based anti-icing and RWIS training
- Winter maintenance decision support system
- Anti-icing/deicing video
- Focus on rural highway safety
- Reducing crashes at rural intersections
- Examining traffic safety on rural expressways
- In and out of the driver’s seat—safely
- A network of information resources at your fingertips
- Better Mousetrap: Replacing a salt shed door
2003
November – December 2003 (PDF)
- Soil nailing helps in a tight spot
- Installing soil nails
- New resources train transit employees for emergencies
- Online resources help agencies reduce deer-vehicle crashes
- 2003 “roadeo” winners
- Better Mousetrap: Installing a reciprocating chute
- “Build a Better Mousetrap” winners for 2003
- Shelby County crushes old concrete into aggregate
- Building accessible sidewalks
- Iowa DOT paves US 30 shoulders with foamed asphalt
- Precast concrete light pole bases
- Roundabouts training
- Final MUTCD rule
- Improve worker safety in your shop
- Transportation career fair for high school kids
September – October 2003 (PDF)
- Build better pavements: stabilize the subgrade
- Better mousetrap: Adding a heavy-duty wing wheel
- Incorporating safety into 3R
- CTRE helps plan Mississippi River Trail
- GASB Statement 34: Iowa’s small and midsize communities respond
- Highway safety improvements proven to save lives
- SAVER enhances crash data analysis
- Understanding today’s cements for concrete mixtures
- Learning the latest about signing
- New staff and new responsibilities at CTRE
- Iowa is making TraCS nationwide
- Optimizing traffic signal phases for safety
- Testing new pavement overlay
- Drainage law and transportation: a manual for Iowa
- Retrofitting an LED pedestrian signal
- Understanding the basics of concrete mixture chemistry
- Developing a rural roadside safety program
- Hello and goodbye to LTAP advisory board members
- Iowa’s first Roads Scholars recognized
- Flowable mortar helps prevent settling of bridge approaches
- Benefits of recycled materials for erosion control
- Enhancing rural roadside safety
- Portable utility box
- Reauthorization: Putting the SAFE in TEA and the training in transportation
- LTAP: Year in review, Here’s what people say about Iowa LTAP
- Iowa’s “border to border” enforcement projects
- Roads Scholars earn recognition for training
- Enhanced sign for safer moving operations
- GASB Statement 34: On-ramp to transportation asset management or detour to business as usual?
- Partial directory of the reorganized Iowa DOT
- Overview of methods for controlling erosion and storm water
- Bettendorf demonstrates new bridge technology
- Iowa River bridge meets environmental challenges
- LTAP extends services to communities
- New direction for LTAP advisory board
- Efficient guardrail cleaner
- Resources: Conducting traffic studies
- Resources: Accessing safety advice
- Resources: Managing culverts
- Resources: Maintaining signs and sign supports
- Resources: Making intersections safer
- Reducing vehicle-utility pole crashes affordably
- Cutting galvanized surfaces safely
- Iowa DOT receives 2002 Perpetual Pavement Award
- Meet experts on today’s hot transportation topics
- What do you think about LED signal lamps?
2002
November – December 2002 (PDF)
- Ames, Bettendorf switch to LED signal lamps
- Web-based course for 2002 roadside design guidelines
- Remove salt and sand with underbody wash
- Draft retroreflectivity standards for signs in 2003
- “Vital” strategies for highway safety
- 0.08 or 0.10? Iowa’s legal blood alcohol concentration (BAC) limit
- Reducing alcohol-related crashes in Iowa: Successful initiatives
- Funding is available to improve highway-rail crossing safety
September – October 2002 (PDF)
- Anti-ice bar installs easily
- Better Mousetrap winners for 2002
- 2002 “roadeo” winners
- Pre-season winter maintenance checklist for fleet managers
- Making snow plows more visible
- Complying with Phase II storm water regulations by March 10, 2003
- Multidisciplinary teams implement safety initiatives that work
- Keeping county roadsides safe
- Selecting pavement marking materials: Balancing initial cost and durability
- Traffic calming: an option in Iowa?
- MUTCD compliance dates: January 2003
- Websites that work for you
- It’s HOT out there!
- Road workers and skin cancer
- E.Z. rack simplifies hauling, unloading pipe
- CTRE-Iowa DOT library partnership expands knowledge base
- Keeping up with Iowa’s pavement management program
- IPMP information request form
- Multidisciplinary approach to highway safety works best
- Look inside this “toolbox” for proven highway safety strategies
- Iowans’ opinions on highway safety
- Extensive revisions to the MUTCD are proposed
- Unofficial and unauthorized traffic control devices
- ITCSA and IASE sponsor joint annual conference
- Liner installation tools
- Management wisdom
- Low-volume road lessons from the Land Down Under
- Laser scanning can improve project efficiency
- Low water stream crossings: Affordable alternative to bridge replacement
- Two new MUTCD requirements: Post and support requirements and new mandate for crossbucks
- Connecting with small communities
- Scratching your head about management systems?
- Staying organized with concrete supply trailer
- Expert help with gravel roads
- A quick tutorial about acquiring real estate
- Tailoring traffic control plans for specific projects
- Get “Quick” help evaluating temporary traffic control scenarios
- Use “Road (Street) Closed” signs correctly
- Working with Indian tribes during project planning: a “template” for local agencies
- “Tribal consultaion”: what it is and why local agencies should care
- Other activities to improve agency-tribal communications
- Signing for weight restrictions
- Got a question about the millennium edition of the MUTCD?
- New MUTCD means new flagger training
- These web sites work for you
- Prune trees easily with the limb lopper
- Meet national experts on today’s hot transportation topics
- “Click, Listen, and Learn”: practical web-based training modules
2001
- Enhancing Iowa transit with technology
- Electronic tools for sign management: Are they for you?
- Signing for curves and hills
- Can’t wait for statewide urban design and specification standards? (separate brochure)
- Recent court cases emphasize ADA compliance
- Another “better mousetrap”: Quick snow fence roller
- Choosing the right anti-icing chemical
- Bicycle friendly rumble strips
- Selecting asphalt mixes
- National Work Zone Memorial: Help make it personal
- Addressing employee safety at Iowa’s local transportation agencies
- “Making your case” more effectively
September – October 2001 (PDF)
- Managing drifting snow and Understanding how snow moves
- Correction–and more–about flowable mortar
- ERIS: Improving agency communications with emergency response providers (short version) (long version)
- When are three lanes better than four?
- Preventing dangerous edge drop-offs
- Highligts from Iowa’s supplement to the MUTCD
- Better mousetraps abound!
- A winning mousetrap: telescoping bridge rail
- 2001 “roadeo” winners
- Workshops
- Concrete Chemistry, Microstructure, and Performance Workshop (Nov 14, 2001)
- FHWA Concrete Admixture Workshop (Dec 18, 2001)
- Correction for an article about Iowa’s Tribal Summit in May
- Calling all “Road Scholars”
- Meet your LTAP advisory board
- LTAP 101
- The strength of flowable mortar (see also correction)
- Year 2000 data ready for your pavement management program
- Roadway safety projects prove effective
- Plan to attend these traffic safety events
- Highlights from Iowa’s supplement to the MUTCD; Status of millennium edition of MUTCD in Iowa
- E-tools for transportation
- Joint maintenance facility is Iowa’s first
- Sharing resources among Iowa’s agencies
- Controlling dust on unpaved roads
- What’s new in dust control
- Planning for funding needs: Improving the HWYNEEDS software
- Bidding thresholds may increase
- How-to for concrete and asphalt pavement repair
- GASB 34: Look before you leap (and longer version)
- Iowa Tribal Summit on Historic Preservation and Transportation: What does it mean for local governments? (see also correction)
- Complying with the millenium MUTCD
- New Iowa guide supplements the MUTCD
- Eliminate “construction accidents” in work zones
- Showcase your innovations in the “Build a Better Mousetrap” competition
- Complying with GASB 34: help is on the way
- Counties to benefit from anticipated linking of electronic systems
- A safety and liability checklist for local transportation agencies
- New tool to assist in trail planning and development
- NACE’s safety guidelines have been updated
- Iowa’s crushed rock roads
- Sign up for MoGO training 2001
- MUTCD-related
- Other
- Determining the capacity of Iowa’s precast concrete deck bridges
- Dry sand on winter roads provides little benefit
- Modern roundabouts can serve a city’s current and future needs
- Web sites
- Why experts are talking about foamed asphalt 40 years after its debut
- Iowa traffic and safety info online
- Iowa’s Pavement Management Program: an update
2000
November – December 2000 (PDF)
- Ground speed applicators ease winter maintenance
- Snowplowing tips from a couple of old hands
- Removing snow traps with one person and one machine
- How are we doing? You rate our training
- Building steel beam precast unit bridges
- The process for developing an asset management system
- Sioux Center wins safety award
- Tip from the field: installing steel sign posts
- New library coordinator
- CTRE welcomes new employees
September – October 2000 (PDF)
- Statewide urban standards offer many advantages
- Stan Ring dies
- A tribute to Stan Ring
- Computer expertise: meet Nick Burdine
- Access management info coming
- The Iowa Strategic Highway Safety Plan: an update
- Traffic safety sheets: a tool for transportation professionals
- Putting a stop to red light running
- Iowa study of red light running
- Slow down work zone traffic
- Motor grader and snow plow roadeos a success
- New, bigger, better Expo is coming
- Lasso a prize at Iowa’s snow plow and motor grader “roadeos”
- Expo success stories
- Work zone safety products
- Midwest states study work zone safety products
- Why the focus on work zone safety?
- Other new safety products
- The importance of NCHRP Report 350
- Would you like to try speed humps in your community?
- PCC pavement texture that provides traction without noise
- GASB 34: establishing a value for infrastructure assets
- GASB 34 is only one reason to capitalize your transportation infrastructure
- Salvaging railroad flatcars as low-cost bridges
- East and west: Iowa is bordered by new National Scenic Byways
- CTRE welcomes new writer/editor
- Tip from the field: eliminating leaning sign posts
- WWI trucks and Iowa’s highway commission
- How new storm water rule will affect city and county transportation agencies
- Background of EPA’s Phase II storm water rule
- Entities affected by Phase II storm water rule
- Phase II and “no exposure” certification
- GASB 34: the “modified reporting approach” as part of an asset management system
- Why roadside management?
- HF 2528 removes hurdles to exercising power of eminent domain
- Streamlining the construction project development process
- Implements of husbandry: the impact study
- Catch up on the latest in pavement markings
- A home for Iowa’s transportation history
1999
1998
1997
1996
1995
1992
1990
1988
1986