TRAFFIC-HANDLING PROCEDURES DURING MAINTENANCE AND RECONSTRUCTION TO PROMOTE SAFETY AND MINIMIZE DELAYS

In urban expressway maintenance projects, planning traffic control procedures requires as much time as making repairs. Therefore, these techniques must be constantly improved to minimize traffic delays and to accomplish the necessary improvements safely. This paper presents the Illinois Department of Transportation's urban Interstate maintenance project experience and uses the 1971 Kennedy-Dan Ryan Expressway rehabilitation project as a case study. Procedures for the planning of this project were based on experience gained from the 1966 Edens Expressway resurfacing project and involved a series of steps. Some essential components of this procedure include the formation of a task force to prepare the project contracts and the arrangement of meetings with various highway agencies and interested public and private transportation organizations. Proper timing of the elements of the planning effort ensures success of full news dissemination concerning the project. These efforts are designed to avoid congestion at the project's inception and to ensure that the motorist makes advance plans about alternate routes or modes of travel. The public information program is closely correlated with the success of the planned control measures.

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  • http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/sr/sr153/153-012.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at the 7th Summer Mtg. of TRB in cooperation with Florida DOT, Jacksonville, Fla., Aug. 5-7, 1974. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board (TRB)

  Washington, DC   
• Authors:
  • McLean, Charles
• Conference:
  • 7th Summer Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
  • Location: Jacksonville Florida, United States
  • Date: 1974-8-5 to 1974-8-7
• Publication Date: 1975

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 100-106
• Monograph Title: Better use of existing transportation facilities
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 153
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0360-859X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Expressways; Highway maintenance; Information dissemination; Maintenance practices; Minimization; Programming (Planning); Publicity; Safety; Traffic congestion; Traffic control; Traffic delays
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00099502
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Nov 5 1975 12:00AM