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| Fiscal Year | Innovations | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures | Kentucky Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures Corridor Project (US 231 - Warren County / Richmond Bypass - Madison County) ($1,000,000) |
| 2015 | Intelligent Compaction | Intelligent Compaction Project ($1,000,000) |
| 2014 | Roundabout | This project will improve safety and alleviate capacity problems currently being experienced at the intersection of KY 363 and KY 1006 in London, Laurel County Kentucky. ($1,000,000) Read AID Demonstration Project Grant Kentucky 2014 |
| Fiscal Year | Innovations | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Crowdsourcing, work zone | Develop and deploy Work Zone Data Exchange (WxDx) feed ($100,000) |
| 2020 | SWZ | Implement Smarter Work Zones (SWZ) statewide ($100,000) |
| 2019 | STEP | Implementation of countermeasures for STEP toolbox on public roads in KY. ($100,000) |
| 2018 | UAS | Deployment of Unmanned Aircraft Systems Technology to expand data collection capability in highway districts, including equipment purchase and training for surveying, contract inspection, and asset inspection. ($100,000) |
| 2017 | GIS / Asset Management | Implement an Automated Asset Inventory Data Collection System ($100,000) |
| 2016 | e-Construction | Implement an electronic Engineering Policy Guide at the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, including development, technology delivery, and training ($100,000) |
| 2015 | e-Construction | Development and execution of an e-Construction implementation plan ($100,000) |
| 2014 | Utilities | Development and deployment of the Kentucky Utilities and Rail Tracking Systems (KURTS) ($100,000) |
| Date | Innovations | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 03/01/24 | Intersection Geometry | The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) recently developed an online public engagement resource called SAFERoad Solutions to explain road designs that improve safety, mobility, and efficiency. The guide covers 17 topics, including roadway reconfiguration (Road Diets), restricted crossing U-turns, and double crossover diamond (diverging diamond) interchanges. Each topic includes a video, illustration, and downloadable fact sheet that communicate why the design is effective and how to navigate it... |
| 03/01/24 | SS4A | Communities are using the SS4A Implementation Grants to help fund safety projects and strategies they have identified as their most pressing safety problems.
The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government in Kentucky is using SS4A funds to implement safety upgrades on the highest fatal and serious injury corridor identified in its Action Plan... |
| Date | Innovations | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 1/1/2022 | Crowdsourcing | Vehicles remaining on shoulders increase crash risk, particularly when present for extended periods. The Kentucky Transportation Center used free data from a navigation app provider to confirm that more than 35 percent ofvehicle-on-shoulder alerts stayed active for at least 30 minutes, and another 12 percent for at least 1 hour. The study also found a strong correlation between vehicles on the shoulder, congestion, and crashes. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet's traffic management center operators are using the same free data to view real-time heatmaps of vehicle-on-shoulder events, detect likely abandoned vehicles, and share this information with law enforcement patrols. This effort helps clear vehicles from the shoulder and improve travel safety. Read More |
| 7/1/2021 | STIC | Among the innovations featured in the STIC Network Showcase were new ideas for improving safety and mobility during hazardous weather. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) developed snow and ice decision support software that consolidates information for staff responding to weather events and allows them to view the status of operations and weather on a statewide scale. KYTC maintenance and information technology staff teamed to create the dashboard, which displays many different data sources on one map. Since the dashboard is public facing, roadway users can also view the data. Read More |
| 01/01/20 | Crowdsourcing for Operations, Weather Responsive Management Systems | The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) integrates data from third parties, such as Waze and Doppler radar, with agency sources, such as snowplows and roadway weather stations. "All of this flows into our system in real time, so our snow and ice personnel and TMC staff can mix and match the data to better understand a weather event," said Chris Lambert, KYTC transportation data manager. KYTC uses some data on its GoKY website, which provides road condition and traffic information to travelers. Another application is the Snow and Ice Decision Support dashboard, which aggregates road weather data that KYTC shares with agencies such as the Kentucky State Police and Kentucky Emergency Management. "When agencies are talking about closing roads or creating detours, having a single understanding of what's happening on the roadway is useful," said Lambert. The agency turned to crowdsourcing for road weather management when heavy rains led to flooding last year, using social media to ask Waze app users to submit reports on high-water locations. "The reports from people willing to participate in marking high-water locations nearly doubled between late February and early March," said Randi Feltner, KYTC snow and ice operations program manager. |
| 09/01/19 | Pavement Preservation | In the past 2 years, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) has improved overall road conditions by using pavement preservation techniques such as scrub seals, chip seals, cape seals, hot-mix asphalt thinlays, and microsurfacing. By implementing a pavement preservation strategy, KYTC reports an estimated $200 million reduction in its pavement project backlog and believes that by 2022 the backlog will decline by about $400 million. Visit the Federal Highway Administration pavement preservation web page for a pavement preservation checklist series, best practices, and case studies. |
| 07/01/19 | Crowdsourcing for Operations | Incident detection was one of the first uses of crowdsourcing for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC). The agency created a process that compares real-time probe vehicle data with crowdsourced reports from Waze, a community-based traffic and navigation app. When an incident is detected, an automated email goes to KYTC's traffic management centers. "The crowdsourced data add context to the probe data and help us understand what users are experiencing," said Chris Lambert, KYTC transportation data manager.
Crowdsourced data also help KYTC better understand incident response and clearance timelines when it conducts after-action reviews. "Maps are great for situational awareness, but they don't tell the entire story, such as when an event started or congestion increased," said Lambert. "Dashboarding our probe data along with crowdsourcing data allows us to drill down and see the order of events." |
| 11/01/17 | Hackathons | Louisville, KY, is fostering innovation through the use of hackathons, working sessions focused on generating problem-solving ideas with potential for development. At a July hackathon, city employees analyzed crowd-sourced traffic data from a smartphone application and other data, such as lane closures and traffic counts, and applied them to six transportation-related projects. One project involves creating incentives for increasing bus ridership to reduce traffic congestion. Another project calls for using crowd-sourced alerts on traffic crashes in areas with active cameras to enable police to point cameras at incidents immediately and respond more quickly. Read Innovator Issue 63 |
| 09/01/17 | Pavement Preservation (When, Where and How) | From 2007 to 2012, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet embarked on a process of diamond grinding—a treatment that corrects surface imperfections in pavements—for all 536 State-maintained lane miles of concrete pavement. The program reduced the average International Roughness Index (IRI) value—a method used to measure ride quality or comfort—from 112.1 to 74.5 over the 5-year program. The cost of the program was about $100 million, but the comparable cost of non-preservation treatments to achieve the same IRI values would have been in excess of $1 billion. Read Innovator Issue 62 |
| 01/01/17 | High Friction Surface Treatment, Safety Edge, Accelerated bridge Construction | The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet created a senior management position to lead integration and standardization of innovative processes throughout the State. Use of high-friction surface treatments and the Safety Edge™ paving technique contributed to an 85 percent drop in roadway crashes. An accelerated bridge construction policy encourages continuous innovation on bridge projects. Read Innovator Issue 58 |
| Date | Innovations | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 05/01/15 | Geosynthetic Reinforced Soil - Integrated Bridge System | The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has installed high-friction surface treatments at 94 locations since 2010. In 2013, the agency conducted a crash analysis of 43 applications on ramps and horizontal curves from 2009 to 2012. For horizontal curve installations, yearly wet-weather crash averages declined 86 percent, dry-weather crash averages dropped 47 percent and total crashes fell 73 percent. For ramp installations, wet-weather crash averages declined 85 percent, dry-weather crash averages were down 66 percent and total crashes were 78 percent lower. Read Innovator Issue 48 |
| 03/01/15 | Intersection and Interchange Geometrics | The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet will build a roundabout to improve the capacity of and address safety challenges at an intersection in London. The project will help the agency gain the experience necessary to institutionalize the use of roundabouts at safety-critical locations when appropriate. Read Innovator Issue 47 |
| 01/01/15 | High Friction Surface Treatment | The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has installed high-friction surface treatments to improve safety on curves on many rural roads, said Jason Siwula, innovation engineer. Wet weather crashes have dropped by 85 percent and overall crashes by 7 percent at those locations. Read Innovator Issue 46 |
| 03/01/14 | High Friction Surface Treatment | Interstate Road Management Inc. installed high-friction surface treatments at 26 locations in a Kentucky project to lower fatalities on horizontal curves. Read Innovator Issue 41 |
| Date | Innovations | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 10/03/24 | Project Bundling | In 2021, The Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) faced an issue of having over 3.400 bridges that were over 50 years of age, the design life of the bridges, with over 10 percent of them being structurally deficient. Over 1,000 bridges were load posted, constraining freight movement within the State.
At a virtual workshop in fall of 2021, IDOT learned about bridge bundling from the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet. In late 2022, IDOT advertised its first culvert bundles and awarded them in early 2023. These culvert bundles were advanced as Design-Bid-Build (DBB) projects and were similar in design, materials, and geographical location. Since then, IDOT has advertised additional bundle contracts for culverts and bridge projects, which can be viewed as part of IDOT’s current bundling plan for 2023 – 2028... |
| Date | Innovations | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 11/10/22 | FoRRRwD | In their Statewide Roadway Departure (RwD) Action Plan, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) recommended the installation of rumble strips and high friction surface treatment (HFST) on primarily State roads with functional class “collector” or higher. The State evaluated these countermeasures and determined a benefit-cost (B/C) ratio for center line and edge line rumble strips up to 65:1 and up to 44:1 for HFST. These findings led KYTC to systematically integrate rumble strips into the State’s resurfacing schedule. KYTC then developed a suite of safety performance functions (SPFs) used in network screenings for proven countermeasures, such as HFST and cable median barrier. This tailored network screening uses crash types and facility types that correlate with where these countermeasures are most effective, such as wet weather curve crashes for HFST. This allows KYTC to eliminate non-RwD crash types to focus on locations with the most potential for safety improvement. KYTC is building on the success of its Statewide RwD Action Plan with an ongoing crash analysis at the district level. These studies will investigate each District’s RwD safety challenges using a systemic approach and the State-specific SPFs to identify potential projects. KYTC has a goal to allocate Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) funds 50/50 for systemic and site-specific projects across the State. A systemic approach is a proactive, cost-effective means of addressing where crashes are expected in the future. The systemic approach doesn’t replace, but complements, the need for site-specific projects. Read More |
| 09/01/22 | FoRRRwD | In their Statewide Roadway Departure (RwD) Action Plan, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) recommended the installation of rumble strips and high friction surface treatment (HFST) primarily on State roads with functional class “Collector” or higher. The State evaluated these countermeasures and determined a benefit-cost ratio for center line and edge line rumbles strips up to 65:1 and up to 44:1 for HFST. These findings led KYTC to systematically integrate rumble strips into the State’s resurfacing schedule. KYTC then developed a suite of safety performance functions (SPFs) used in network screenings for proven countermeasures, such as cable median barrier and HFST. This tailored network screening uses crash types and facility types that correlate with where these countermeasures are most effective (e.g., wet weather curve crashes for HFST). This allows KYTC to eliminate non-RwD crash types to focus on locations with the most potential for safety improvement. KYTC is building on the success of its Statewide RwD Action Plan with an ongoing crash analysis at the District level. These studies will investigate each District’s RwD safety challenges using a systemic approach and the State-specific SPFs to identify potential projects. A systemic approach is a proactive, cost-effective means of addressing where crashes are expected in the future. The systemic approach doesn’t replace, but complements, the need for site-specific projects. KYTC has a goal to allocate HSIP funds equally between systemic and site-specific projects across the State. Read More |
| 11/19/20 | High-Friction Surface Treatment | In Daviess County, Kentucky, officials used Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) funding to install high-friction surface treatment (HFST) as part of a larger safety project with the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC). HFST are pavement treatments that effectively reduce all crashes, particularly wet pavement related crashes with friction demand issues, typically seen on curves. In Kentucky, the average total crash reduction for HFST is 73 percent and the average wet crash reduction is 86 percent. Daviess County had identified that the curve selected experienced more wet pavement crashes than similar curves throughout the State. Because the curve was on a locally-owned road, KYTC used a screening process and determined that the county's HFST application met the criteria for HSIP funding. A field investigation found that there were several entrances in the area. With other mitigation methods, the entrances would cause realignment issues. The road is also located in a wooded area where pavement often remains wet and drivers underestimate the curve. This made HFST a good candidate as a countermeasure. Through FHWA the KYTC was able to fund 90 percent of the project and Daviess County was responsible for the remaining 10 percent. According to Daviess County, they are unaware of any crashes on the curve since the HFST installation in November 2019. Read More |
| 07/09/20 | Project Bundling | In EDC Outtakes—a series of short interview videos—State practitioners and FHWA personnel give insight into the current round of EDC innovations. In our latest edition, Royce Meredith, of the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC), discusses the benefits of Project Bundling. KYTC tried project bundling in different scenarios, including a fiber optic project along state roads, then, in 2018, launched a bridge bundling program to rehabilitate, repair, or replace 1,000 structures in six years. Read EDC News 7-9-2020 |
| 02/13/20 | Project Bundling | The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) is using project bundling to address more than 1,000 "poor condition bridges" over a six-year period. KYTC will bundle projects consisting of approximately 2-20 bridges to save project delivery cost and time, and assist local economies and provide opportunities for smaller contractors. KYTC is also using various contracting approaches, including traditional bid-build and design-build. The State will continuously evaluate results as the program progresses to determine effectiveness and savings achieved from individual projects. KYTC has also used bundling for projects other than bridges, including pavement preservation/resurfacing and highway safety improvements. One district office is even considering bundling other similar work types, including access management, and pavement rehabilitation. Read EDC News 2-13-2020 |
| 06/06/19 | Pavement Preservation | In the last two years, the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) has seen a noticeable impact on overall road conditions from its use of pavement preservation techniques. The state uses techniques such as scrub seals, chip seals, cape seals, hot mix asphalt thinlays and microsurfacing. By implementing a pavement preservation strategy, KYTC reports an estimated reduction of $200 million in their pavement project backlog and believe that by 2022, it will be reduced by an estimated $400 million. Read EDC News 6-6-2019 |
| 09/28/17 | Pavement Preservation (When, Where, and How) | The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet used diamond grinding to correct surface imperfections on all 536 State-maintained lane miles of concrete pavement. The 5-year program reduced the average International Roughness Index (IRI) value—a measure of ride quality—from 112.1 to 74.5. The program cost $100 million, but the cost of non-preservation treatments to achieve the same IRI values would top $1 billion. Read EDC News 9-28-2017 |
| 08/25/17 | Design-Build | The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet used design-build delivery on its Downtown Crossing project over the Ohio River in Louisville, which includes a new I-65 bridge with extensive roadway, overpass, and bridge improvements. The project, finished on budget and ahead of schedule, reduced congestion and improved safety in the area. Read EDC News 8-25-2017 |
| 04/13/17 | National Traffic Incident Management Responder Training | Efforts continue in Kentucky to expand emergency responders’ use of traffic incident management (TIM) techniques to improve safety for motorists and responders. Effective April 1, the Kentucky State Police requires all wrecker service owners and drivers to complete TIM responder training to be eligible for placement on the agency’s wrecker log. In 2015, the Kentucky State Police integrated TIM responder training into its cadet training curriculum. The Kentucky Fire Commission and the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services have also institutionalized TIM in their training programs. Read EDC News 4-13-2017 |
| 03/09/17 | National Traffic Incident Management Responder Training | An FHWA exhibit at the 2017 Bryant Stiles Officers School on February 25 and 26 in Owensboro, KY, enabled firefighters to learn about TIM responder training on techniques to clear traffic incidents safely and quickly. After visiting the exhibit, 14 fire departments across Kentucky requested TIM training for their local first responders. Since 2013, 5,734 first responders in Kentucky have been trained in TIM techniques, including 2,646 from fire and rescue services. Read EDC News 3-9-2017 |
| 11/17/16 | High Friction Surface Treatments, Safety Edge, Accelerated Bridge Construction | The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet created a senior management position to spearhead integration and standardization of innovative processes throughout the state. Use of high-friction surface treatments and the Safety Edge contributed to an 85 percent drop in roadway crashes. An accelerated bridge construction policy encourages continuous innovation on bridge projects. Read EDC News 1-17-2016 |
| 11/10/16 | High Friction Surface Treatment, Safety Edge, Accelerated Bridge Construction | The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet created a senior management position to spearhead integration and standardization of innovative processes throughout the state. Use of high-friction surface treatments and the Safety Edge contributed to an 85 percent drop in roadway crashes. An accelerated bridge construction policy encourages continuous innovation on bridge projects. Read EDC News 1-10-2016 |
| 07/28/16 | Locally Administered Federal-Aid Projects: Stakeholder Partnering | Two national traffic incident management responder training courses on July 13 enabled first responders in Kentucky to learn techniques for safe, quick clearance of highway incidents. The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and Kentucky Transportation Center at the University of Kentucky presented a course to 41 cadets at the Kentucky State Police Training Academy. The state police made traffic incident management part of the cadet training curriculum in 2015. FHWA and the Kentucky Transportation Center offered a course in partnership with the U.S. Army at Fort Knox. The 48 responders who attended represented law enforcement, firefighting, towing and transportation disciplines in the Fort Knox area. Read EDC News 7-28-2016 |
| 03/31/16 | National Traffic Incident Management Responder Training | The Kentucky Lifesavers Conference March 22 to 24 in Louisville included traffic incident management responder training sessions on techniques to clear incidents safely and quickly. Other sessions covered the EDC initiative in Kentucky, low-cost safety improvements, and bicyclist and pedestrian safety. Nearly 400 safety professionals attended the conference, which was sponsored by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet, Kentucky Office of Highway Safety, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and FHWA. Read EDC News 3-31-2016 |
| 03/03/16 | Nation Traffic Incident Management Responder Training | The Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services partnered with FHWA to offer a national traffic incident management train-the-trainer course on February 18 in Lexington. Thirty-eight responders representing emergency medical services, fire departments, law enforcement agencies, towing companies and transportation agencies attended. The course provided participants with the knowledge and materials they need to train their colleagues across the state on techniques for clearing traffic incidents safely and quickly. Read EDC News 3-3-2016 |
| Date | Innovations | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 08/13/15 | Accelerated Bridge Construction, Slide-in Bridge Construction | The Milton-Madison bridge-slide project won the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and Indiana Department of Transportation a Best Use of Innovation award in this year’s southeastern regional contest in the America’s Transportation Awards competition. By sliding the new bridge onto refurbished piers, crews were able to reduce the bridge closure by 11 months. Read EDC News 8-13-2015 |
| 06/18/15 | National Traffic Incident Management Responder Training Program | FHWA staff moderated a session at the 2015 Kentucky Office of Highway Safety Summit on traffic incident management techniques to clear crashes safely and quickly. The June 10 and 11 event in Morehead also included presentations on texting while driving and impaired driving. About 100 highway safety and law enforcement personnel attended the summit, which focused on safety issues in the state. Read EDC News 6-18-2015 |
| 06/11/15 | Road Diets, Smarter Work Zones | Members of the American Traffic Safety Services Association Kentucky Chapter learned about road diets at their June meeting in Frankfort. They had several questions for FHWA staff on the operational and safety effects of road diets, which reconfigure a roadway cross-section to accommodate road users such as bicyclists and pedestrians. Meeting participants also discussed other safety-related innovations, such as smarter work zone strategies and national traffic incident management responder training. Read EDC News 6-12-2015 |
| 12/19/14 | Accelerated Bridge Construction | The Milton-Madison Bridge connecting Milton, Kentucky, and Madison, Indiana, was named Best Project for 2014 in the lateral slide category at the National Accelerated Bridge Construction Conference in Miami, Florida. The 2,428-foot-long structure was slid laterally 55 feet from temporary piers onto the refurbished original piers, making it the longest bridge in North America to be slid laterally into place. The 30-million-pound steel truss bridge over the Ohio River is 40 feet wide with two 12-foot lanes and 8-foot shoulders—twice as wide as the 1929 structure it replaced. An April 2014 video shows the bridge being slid into place. Read EDC News 12-19-2014 |
| Date | Innovations | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Project Bundling | The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) is using project bundling to effectively accomplish strategic program delivery and more rapidly provide the benefits to their travelers. As part of the Bridging Kentucky Program, KYTC is addressing hundreds of bridges in poor condition or with significant weight restrictions to improve safety and system performance statewide. KYTC is bundling projects of 2-20 bridges to accomplish a variety of objectives, including cost and time savings, assisting local economies and providing opportunities for smaller contractors. To enhance bundling, KYTC is using various contracting approaches, including traditional bid-build and design-build. Other benefits included: the ability to prioritize projects statewide, the development of scalable solutions to meet short and long-term needs, more streamlined coordination with utilities and railroads, creation of standardized design elements, flexibility with scheduling and materials procurement, and DOT staffing efficiencies (i.e. fewer contracts to manage, easier to plan inspector staffing/workload, streamlined coordination with local officials) |
| Date | Innovations | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Data-Driven Safety Analysis | The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) DDSA implementation team formed four subcommittees to determine how to deploy DDSA: DDSA in Planning, DDSA in Highway Design, DDSA Safety Analysis Tools and Training, and Fostering DDSA Culture and Marketing. KYTC reports the benefits of creating the multidisciplinary subcommittees include spreading workload across the agency and allowing for exploration of a wide range of ideas and implementation opportunities. Read the EDC-4 Final Report |
| 2019 | e-Construction and Partnering | In Kentucky, KYTC implemented an all-electronic change order process, which is expected to take significantly less time to complete than previous paper processes. After demonstrating e-ticketing on two paving projects, the agency reports that benefits included allowing inspectors to monitor asphalt deliveries from a safer distance, improving communication between inspectors and contractors on material quantities and truck locations, and moving from paper to digital information storage. KYTC is evaluating technology to further its e-Construction program, including mobile inspection, contractor payroll, and construction data analytics software packages. The agency plans to pilot a mobile inspection platform on multiple projects in 2019. Read the EDC-4 Final Report |
| Date | Innovations | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | e-Construction | The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) uses the AASHTOWare® Mobile Inspector application to eliminate duplicate data collection and entry efforts, saving hours of staff time each day. KYTC construction field offices have touch-screen monitors with pdf software, which allows for paperless submittal and review of project drawings and decreases the time needed to approve changes. Read the EDC-3 Final Report |
| Date | Innovations | Project |
|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Design-Build | The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet worked with the Indiana DOT and FHWA to save $1.8 billion and reduce the construction schedule by eight years on a major project involving downtown Louisville and East End bridges over the Ohio River using design refinements, D-B and public-private partnership contracting with alternative technical concepts. The KYTC has received legislative authority for 16 D-B projects to date. D-B project delivery is institutionalized in Indiana. Read the EDC-2 Final Report |
| 2015 | High Friction Surface Treatment | The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet has installed HFST at 94 locations since 2010, including 31 locations during EDC-2. In 2013, the agency conducted a crash analysis of 43 HFST installations on ramps and horizontal curves from 2009 to 2012. For horizontal curve installations, yearly wet-weather crash averages declined 86 percent, dry-weather crash averages dropped 47 percent and total crashes fell 73 percent. For ramp installations, wet-weather crash averages declined 85 percent, dry-weather crash averages were down 66 percent and total crashes were 78 percent lower. Read the EDC-2 Final Report |
| 2015 | Intersection and Interchange Geometrics | The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet constructed a DDI at U.S. 68 and New Circle Road in Lexington, Kentucky. Since opening, the DDI has reduced crashes 45 percent and increased mobility. The KYTC has received three national awards for the project. Two additional DDIs are in design. Read the EDC-2 Final Report |
| 2015 | National Traffic Incident Management Responder Training | The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and FHWA developed a TIM implementation plan that provides dedicated funding for and a commitment to implementing TIM training during the next two years. KYTC contracted with the Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) to develop materials, market TIM training, identify and assist trainers and maintain a training database. The LTAP developed and maintains the state’s TIM training website: www.kyt2.com/training/traffic-incident-mangement. Read the EDC-2 Final Report |
| 2015 | National Traffic Incident Management Responder Training | The Kentucky Transportation Center at the University of Kentucky created a traffic incident management manual, revised an emergency traffic handbook and developed an informative article for distribution to local governments, Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and legislative staff. It also created a loan program for trainers for the table-top displays and education tools used in the traffic incident management training program. A total of 2,160 responders have been trained to date through the 93 training sessions conducted across the state. Read the EDC-2 Final Report |
| 2015 | Programmatic Agreements | The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet’s programmatic agreement on the Indiana bat was developed in 2006 and modified in 2011. As of November 2014, 78 projects required formal consultation. Stakeholders whose projects impacted the habitat were required to pay into the Indiana Bat Conservation Fund. The KYTC estimates the agreement saved $150,000 in 2014 alone. Read the EDC-2 Final Report |
