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. 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
- 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
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