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The Village of Pleasant Prairie and Kenosha County partnered to on a park and ride project that included self-performed municipal construction work, an environmentally responsible design, several innovative construction techniques to reduce the impact of construction, meet critical timelines, and tight budget constraints.
Read MoreWhen completed, the OC Loop will be a 66-mile bikeway intended to encircle much of west Orange County. The construction has galvanized local agencies to pursue projects along the route including flood control right-of-way and utility corridors, grade separated crossings, connections to other bikeways.
Read MoreEndorsed by APWA's Engineering Technology Committee
Advances in survey technology yield a broad range of new and beneficial opportunities for public works. Use of static LiDAR, or laser scanning technology for data collection yields many benefits for certain public works engineering and management applications.
Read MoreThis session will lay out a roadmap showing you how to develop, implement, train staff, and continually improve a telematics solution. Dakota County will share what systems they used, the challenges they met, and how they saw a return on investment through idle reduction, driver behavior, a reduction in salt usage, and speed monitoring.
Read MoreCreating a snow plan and other policy documents addressing how your agency will conduct winter maintenance is a daunting task. You are always worried that you are forgetting something. Take a look at how several hundred agencies in Canada are using a web-based application to guide them through the process and creates the plan for them.
Read MoreDon’t miss this opportunity to hear directly from an NWS forecaster about resources available to public works. We’ll discuss and demonstrate new-fangled tools like the NWS widget, hourly weather graph, and NWSChat. We’ll also cover the concept of Decision Support Services and basic radar interpretation.
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This session will demonstrate ways the Alaska Department of Transportation; Public Facilities has recently dealt with numerous winter warm weather events in the face of drastically reduced operating budgets through improved forecasting technology, chemical use and changes to equipment.
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How do you manage your storms in real time? How do you handle the situations that come up, both politically and publicly before and after each event?
Read MoreThe 2016 Canadian Infrastructure Report Card (CIRC) was released on January 18, 2016. The report card was developed to present the state of municipal infrastructure and the state of asset management in Canada.
Read MoreJR Fellow Presentation: Waterfront Redevelopment and Transportation Planning in Auckland, New Zealan
In June 2016, Bruce Kaplan traveled to Auckland, New Zealand as an APWA Jennings Randolph International Fellow. This fellowship allowed him to conduct a study tour and meet with members of Auckland Council, Auckland Transport, Auckland Development, and the Auckland Urban Design Panel, to discuss New Zealand’s largest city’s recent experience with downtown waterfront redevelopment, intermodal terminal redevelopment, regional government, and its transportation system’s challenge of accommodating present and projected rapid urban growth. In this presentation, he will discuss his findings from the study tour as well as elaborate on the differences he discovered between infrastructure planning in New Zealand and in the United States.
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