Training Program for Night Road Work to Improve Safety and Operations

This digest announces the results of National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Project 17-17(2), "Development of Guidelines for Nighttime Road Work to Improve Safety and Operations." The research team (composed of Douglas Mace of The Last Resource and James Bryden, Consultant) developed a self-contained training package to complement NCHRP Reports 475 and 476. The training program is available as CRP-CD-50. The training program consists of the following: Introduction; Unit 1 - Night Work Decision Process and Project Conceptual Design; Unit 2 - Traffic Control Plan Design; Unit 3 - Traffic Control Devices and Safety Features; and Unit 4 - Night Work Operations. The intended audience for this training program includes highway administrators; project planners and designers; others with responsibility for project planning/scheduling; construction and maintenance managers; project supervisors and inspectors; and contractor managers, supervisors, and traffic control staff.