CITT Town Hall Meeting

November 17, 2023, 7:30am – 10:00am PT

The Cal State Long Beach (CSULB) Center for International Trade & Transportation (CITT) is hosting a Town Hall on Decarbonization: Truth: Consequences, and Hard Choices.

California's supply chains need to balance responses to both unprecedented decarbonization mandates and American consumer demand for rapid and affordable fulfillment of goods. This delicate balance poses challenges to supply chain operators as well as labor and government.

Join CITT for a brass-tacks talk about the truth, consequences, and choices we all must make to ensure a sustainable and economically secure future.

This event is hosted at the Pointe Conference Center inside CSULB's Walter Pyramid. Tickets are limited, so register now to secure your spot!

Talking Freight Webinar

November 14, 2023, 10:00am – 12:00pm PT

The Talking Freight webinar series provides technical assistance, training, tools, and information to help the freight and planning workforce meet the transportation challenges of tomorrow.

This month's upcoming webinar brings presentations on wildlife considerations in freight planning and policies from:

• Bob Bonds, Area Engineer, FHWA Wyoming Division
• Nastasha Earle-Young, Policy Director, North Carolina DOT
• Colleen Fletcher, Program Manager, Office of Federal Lands Highway

An open Q&A forum will allow plenty of opportunities to engage these speakers along with fellow freight practitioners during the webinar.

Register now or click here to access recordings of past webinars

FHWA EDC-7 Spotlight:

FDOT Improves Nighttime Traffic Safety

As part of the Nighttime Visibility for Safety Initiative, Florida's Department of Transportation (FDOT) researched multiple lighting solutions at dangerous intersections before investing $100M to replace high-pressure sodium lighting with LEDs for improved pedestrian visibility.

At just one intersection in the Tampa Bay area, preliminary results indicate nighttime injuries and fatalities were cut by over 50%. FDOT District 7 installed improved lighting at over 400 intersection locations. Before and after studies reveal a reduction in crash statistics by up to 65%.

Nighttime Visibility for Safety is an FHWA EDC-7 initiative that focuses on deploying countermeasures to safely connect people to the community and essential services. It places an emphasis on visibility improvements in close proximity to publicly active locations such as schools, parks, transit stops, sports complexes, and entertainment.

Click here to read more about this EDC-7 initiative

Innovator Magazine:

Curing Concrete Produces EPIC² Results

Internally curing concrete has been shown to increase the service life of concrete bridge decks by 25 to 50 years while also preventing crack formations resulting from concrete shrinkage. Such cracks can be detrimental because they provide a direct path for chlorides to reach embedded steel reinforcement in the bridge, leading to corrosion.

The success of internally curing concrete is one of many topics covered in the September/October 2023 issue of FHWA's Innovator Magazine.

Additional articles in this issue include:

• Environmental Product Declarations Help Create Sustainable Highways
• Nighttime Visibility for Safety: Visible Solutions
• EDC Legacy—Laying the Foundation for the Safe System Approach

Access the full version here

NCHRP Research Report:

Becoming a Tech-Savvy DOT of Tomorrow

NCHRP has recently released "Becoming a Tech-Savvy DOT of Tomorrow", which provides a playbook for agencies to follow for defining and strategically addressing the impacts of disruptive technologies on transportation outcomes and on the performance of business units within DOTs.

Supplemental to the report is NCHRP Web-Only Document 371 "Impact of New Disruptive Technologies on the Performance of DOTs" which offers a guide for state DOTs and other transportation planning agencies to understand, predict, plan for, and adapt to the potential impacts of emerging disruptive technologies.

Access the full report here

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