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Examples of Rule Implementation: What Some Agencies are Currently Doing to Support Rule Implementation

Some agencies are further along than others in implementing polices and practices that the Work Zone Safety and Mobility Rule either requires or encourages. While what they are doing may not yet be fully compliant with the Rule, their current practices still serve as good examples of how to work toward Rule implementation. Examples are available for the following topics:

• Work Zone Policies

• Assessing and Managing Work Zone Impacts

• Use of Work Zone Data

• Work Zone Training

• Process Reviews

• Significant Projects

• Transportation Management Plans (TMPs)

• Public Information and Outreach

• The January/February 2006 issue of FHWA Public Roads includes an article, entitled "Rule on Work Zone Safety and Mobility", which provides examples and practices that may help facilitate rule implementation.

• "Holding Down the Fort", by Frank Cippel, article in December 2007 issue of Roads & Bridges, Volume: 45 Number: 12. This article provides a good example of how the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation used many of the practices that the Rule promotes to successfully undertake a major reconstruction project on the heavily traveled I-279 Fort Pitt Bridge and Tunnel in the city of Pittsburgh.

More topics and examples will be added to this page over time.