MODULE 2 By Vit Troyan . TRANSPORTATION: Right-of-Way Traffic Operations Street Maintenance

1. MODULE 2 By Vit Troyan . TRANSPORTATION: Right-of-Way Traffic Operations Street Maintenance One-Call Centers

2. Session Learning Objectives: Transportation • Define the Public Right-of-Way • Understand Right-of-Way Management • Understand Traffic Operations Objectives • Understand the Use of a Pavement Management System • Understand the Importance of One-Call Centers • Know the Uniform Color Code for Underground Facilities

3. Public Right-of-Way • Property line to property line • Includes sidewalk, landscape areas, curb, pavement, center islands/medians • Street is not always in the middle of the public right-of-way • Property line is not always the building front (setbacks) • Work on private property = gift of public funds

4. Who “owns” your streets? • Street Superintendent? • City Engineer? • Both? • Other? • No one?

5. Best Management Practices: Right-of-Way Management • Legal authority (time, place, manner) • Responsibility for ROW management assigned • Permit process established for • Construction • Use • Occupancy • Permit process brochures available • Permitted work inspected • ROW management costs recovered

6. Best Management Practices: Utility Coordination • System exists to talk to utilities • Policy establishes utility location, priority and clearance • Long-range plans are coordinated • Utility records and maps are maintained • Excavation procedures are adopted • Legal authority • Time, place and manner • Franchises

7. Traffic Operations • Keep people and goods moving safely • Regulate parking • Get yelled at by everybody

8. Manual of Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) • Standardizes all • Traffic signs • Traffic signals • Pavement markings • On or adjacent to • Streets and highways

9. Best Management Practices: Street Maintenance • Operations and maintenance (O&M) responsibilities assigned • O&M procedures established • Inspection system established (roads, bridges, tunnels, walls, sidewalks, etc.) • Preventive maintenance program adopted • Street maintenance coordinated with capital improvement projects • Asset management for streets (pavement management system)

10. Street Maintenance:Pavement Management System • Definition of street segments • Inventory • Condition • Traffic/truck volume (street classification) • Cost of alternative treatments • Recommended treatment and cost • Annual budget needs • “What if?” analyses

11. Street Maintenance:Types of Treatment • Patch (1-3 years) • Crack seal (1-3 years) • Slurry seal (3-5 years) • Chip seal (3-5 years) • Resurface (10-20 years) • “Mill and fill” (10-20 years) • Reconstruct (15-40 years)

12. Street Maintenance:Variables • Pavement condition • Type of failure • Traffic/truck volume • Money • Citizen patience • Political will

13. Best Management Practice:One-Call Centers • Keeps things from going “boom” • Mark area of construction • Call before you dig • 48 hours to mark • Responsibility for “boom”

14. Best Management Practice:Uniform Color Code for Temporary Marking of Underground Facilities • WHITE • PINK • RED • YELLOW • ORANGE • BLUE • PURPLE • GREEN

15. Uniform Color Code for Temporary Marking of Underground Facilities • WHITE – Proposed excavation • PINK – Temporary survey markings • RED – Electric power, lighting • YELLOW – Gas, oil, steam • ORANGE - Communication • BLUE – Potable water • PURPLE – Reclaimed water • GREEN – Sewers and storm drains

16. Emerging Issues in Transportation • Americans with Disabilities Act • Aging population • Traffic calming/streetscaping • “Smart” highways/roadways • Photo enforcement • Increases in oil prices • Alternate transportation modes (bicycles, motorcycles, jogging paths)