CLEARINGHOUSE CONTINUES ITS SUCCESSFUL CLIMB TO PROMINENCE

In less than a year and a half, the National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse has made a place for itself in the world of roadway construction and safety. The clearinghouse has quickly become the leading international source of information on roadway work zone safety. Opened in February 1998, the clearinghouse is a cooperative venture between the Federal Highway Administration and the American Road and Transportation Builders Association. The clearinghouse is operated and maintained by the Texas Transportation Institute and includes an interactive Internet Web site, onsite research personnel, and customer service representatives. The site includes five searchable databases on key contact personnel, safety practices, available technologies, research results, and safety training courses and programs. Besides links to other related sites, the site offers many materials and even some full reports online. While the clearinghouse receives a number of phone and fax requests for information, it is the Web site that services many requests, now receiving over 5,000 hits a month.

• Record URL:
  http://d2dtl5nnlpfr0r.cloudfront.net/tti.tamu.edu/documents/researcher/ttr-v35-n1.pdf
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• Corporate Authors:

  Texas Transportation Institute

  Texas A&M University System, 1600 E Lamar Boulevard
  Arlington, TX  United States  76011
• Publication Date: 1999-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 8
• Serial:
  • Texas Transportation Researcher
  • Volume: 35
  • Issue Number: 1
  • Publisher: Texas Transportation Institute
  • ISSN: 0040-4748

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Databases; Information retrieval; Information services; Road construction; Websites (Information retrieval); Work zone safety; Work zone traffic control; Work zones
• Identifier Terms: American Road & Transportation Builders Association; Texas Transportation Institute; U.S. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject Areas: Construction; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; I50: Construction and Supervision of Construction; I80: Accident Studies;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00792403
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: May 22 2000 12:00AM