Corridor manager

• Responsible for coordinating development of design, construction and public relation activities for the project.
• The coordinator's role includes involving the following entities in these activities:
  • Maintenance.
  • Utilities.
  • Contractors.
  • Canal companies.
  • Police.
  • TD district 3.
  • Public transportation.
  • Other public agencies.
  • Public relations.

• Ensure manager is appointed early and has a strong role in all aspects of the projects within the corridor.
• Maintain through project continuum.
• Define rules of engagement.

Alternate route data base

• Inventory alternate route information.
• Update geometric and structural limitations.

• Negotiate with local permitting agencies.
• Provide information to project development and public relations teams.
• Provide information to ITD permitting agency.
• Consider trailblazing alternate routes.

Construction phasing

• Consider preliminary contracts to complete work at interchanges, over-crossing structures, medians and noise walls that do not affect mainline traffic.
• Expedite mainline construction to minimize impacts to traffic.

• Requires detailed critical path method (CPM) and cost analysis.

Alternate pavement treatments

• Consider alternate pavement preservation and rehabilitation strategies.

• Consider short-term extension of existing roadway pavement life for flexibility in staging the entire corridor (i.e., a three-year extended life might provide time to reconstruct the interchanges and bridges to allow more rapid and higher-quality mainline construction).
• Requires public education.

Enhancement of public transportation

• Provide more services for the following:
  • Buses: additional express bus service.
  • Vanpools: additional vehicles.
  • Carpools: carpool matching system.
  • Park & Ride: additional parking facilities for bus, vanpool and carpool users.

• Current bus, vanpool and Park & Ride systems are at capacity.
• No funding is available to expand these systems.
• Need to explore potential funding sources, including project funds (as used on the WYE project) or grant funds.
• Use the WYE mitigation project as a funding and implementation model.
• Build on existing draft traffic mitigation plan.
• Identify potential Park & Ride locations.

Incident management/response

• Prepare maintenance crews for what they will encounter within the work zone.
• Expand current "incident response" program throughout the corridor.
• Consider outsourcing incident response.
• Rebuild the incident management team.

• Provide training for maintenance staff on:
  • The prevention of incidents through their activities.
  • Their roles and responsibilities in active construction areas.
• Define priority for response by type.
• Coordinate with law enforcement and emergency response personnel.
• Provide funding.
• Consider a Quick Tow towing provision.

Smart work zone

• Use real-time message boards, signal prioritization on the mainline, ramp metering on alternate routes, the State's 511 system and ITD's ATMS.

• Install VMS prior to roadway construction.
• Enhance 511 system to address freight management and subscription services (cell phone/pager/e-mail notification) prior to construction.
• Consider long-term maintenance and operation of devices.
• Extend TMC operation to 24/7 365 days a year.
• Provide training to Valley Ride.

Drainage

• Coordinate drainage of pavement with construction.
• Look at grade changes and median construction.

• Ensure designers and contractors provide pavement surface drainage during plan preparation and construction. (Focus on MOT plans.)
• Prevent ponding that results from grade changes, crossovers and median construction.
• Consider the long-term maintenance needs of selected drainage systems.

Traffic safety and delineation

• Look at visibility of pavement markings.
• Utilize rumble strips and raised pavement markers.

• Note that multiple phasing will cause more problems.
• Streamlining construction will reduce the number of lane shifts.

Winter maintenance

• Define adverse winter weather maintenance requirements and responsibilities in the contract.

• Consider traffic phasing in winter maintenance activities and in the design of MOT plans.

Vegetation management

• Develop a comprehensive vegetation management plan (i.e., the right grasses, "Bronco Blue Turf," etc.).

• Review with roadside manager.
• Review current studies by other States.
• Examine the pending National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Synthesis Report.
• Train maintenance personnel in the proper care and management of vegetation.
• Conduct a detailed review of applicability of the existing roadside vegetation program to minimize mowing and long-term maintenance.

Asset management philosophy

• Integrated system should include:
  • Network and corridor approach.
  • Short- and long-term costs.
  • Bridge management.
  • Pavement management.
  • Maintenance management.
  • Safety.
  • Operations.

• Consider all ideas to extend the effective life of the system.
• Develop a preventative maintenance program.
• Look at a geographic information system (GIS)-based system. Conduct an asset inventory.

Smart Zone concepts

• See Smart Zone section in "During Construction" phase.

Median barrier treatments

• Optimize treatment based on maintenance and operations cost and performance.

• Keep all options open.
• Consider future maintenance needs.

Long-term maintenance contracts

• Develop an all-inclusive contract that provides fence-to-fence maintenance.
• Make it activity-based.

• Need to establish performance measures (timeliness and quality levels).
• May face inability to define quantities.