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About Us
Safety and Mobility Team
The Safety and Mobility Team works closely with the other DelMar teams to support and deliver the Federal-aid program. The Team is responsible for providing guidance to the Delaware and Maryland Offices and their customers. The Team performs reviews, inspections and provides technical assistance to ensure the quality of Federal-aid projects and programs, and the conformance with Federal requirements. The Team is comprised of Safety and Transportation Management engineers. Individual responsibilities include:
- Safety and Mobility Program Leader – This individual provides leadership to Team members to ensure that their performance meets the goals, objectives, and expectations of the Division and its customers. The Program Leader also serves as the Traffic Operations and Safety Engineer for the State of Delaware. In this position he works closely with the DelDOT, the Delaware Office of Highway Safety and other State and Federal agencies to implement FHWA safety and mobility programs. Some of these programs include: 1) The deployment of the DelTrac intelligent transportation system to improve the efficiency and reliability of the transportation network and 2) Implementation of the Highway Safety Improvement Program to strategically identify initiatives to improve the safety of the transportation system, eliminate high crash locations and improve the safety of highway-railroad crossings. The Program Leader also provides technical assistance on the MUTCD and the design and installation of roadside hardware.
- Transportation Management Engineer – The Transportation Management Engineer works closely with MDSHA, MPOs, law enforcement, and emergency response agencies to implement FHWA programs and initiatives to mitigate congestion, improve transportation system reliability and decrease the impacts of congestion. These programs and initiatives are: improving traffic signal operations through up-to-date signal timing strategies, working with MDSHA and MPOs to identify and remove significant traffic bottlenecks, ensuring that all ITS projects and initiatives that are funded in whole or in part with the highway trust fund are based on a systems engineering analysis and conform to the National and Maryland Statewide ITS Architecture, and expanding the use of performance measures to monitor and improve transportation system operations. The Transportation Management Engineer is also responsible for providing technical assistance to the Division Office and Maryland transportation agencies on traffic engineering and analysis issues.
- Safety Engineer – The Safety Engineer provides overall coordination and implementation for the Division's safety activities in the State of Maryland. In addition to working with the MD DOT, and local governments, the Safety Engineer works with other safety interest groups and other USDOT modes such as NHTSA to improve highway safety. The Division Safety Program Engineer is responsible for carrying out the MD HSIP program. This safety program provides funding for projects which remove, relocate, or shield roadside obstacles, identify and correct hazardous locations, eliminate or reduce hazards at railroad crossings, and improve signing, pavement markings, and signalization.
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