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After a quick review of weather basics, attendees will learn proven weather forecasting techniques that are specific to East Coast communities. Determining snow gradients, blizzard timing and impacts, ice storm potential and the effects of high tide during snow events will be included.
Preparation, Execution and Post Operations. This session will recount actual solutions to the trials and tribulations endured during the blizzard of 2014-2015 and how they were handled with minimal modifications to our overall snow operation.
Throughout North America, agencies are under pressure to maintain or increase performance with reduced or stagnant funding. This session will provide tools for establishing performance standards for a given budget scenario and methods for communicating required adjustments to levels of service
Historic buildings make up the core of many communities’ identities. However, as needs change and your community grows, many of these buildings are being repurposed for use that is different from their original intent. What may seem a perfect solution to an empty building could be a nightmare for the facility manager who is expected to oversee improvements and maintain the building.
To lead our communities weather and climate related activities, public works professionals need a background in weather – more than the 'old wives tales' we learned when we were young, and more than a simple regurgitation of what we hear in the media.
Over the past decade, technologies have been developed that enable cost-effective monitoring of remote sewer system assets like pipelines, manholes, and lift stations. Real-time remote monitoring places a powerful capital management tool in the hands of utility directors and managers.
Determining where to spend limited fleet dollars can be difficult at best and ineffective at worst when handled subjectively. Too often, annual fleet replacement budgets are based on equipment age or a good sales pitch from an individual stakeholder. Discover how to implement a holistic equipment replacement program that engages all stakeholders in the life-cycle process.
Review the planning, design, procurement opportunities, and constraints the City of Stockton faced while implementing an adaptive traffic control system along its two major corridors. The presentation will highlight the project's evolution from concept to design and decisions on system requirements. Since the project was federally-funded, get tips for working with FHWA on a project of this scope.
The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development's South Louisiana Submerged Roads and Paths to Progress programs have become a model for future disaster recovery efforts due to its unprecedented collaboration and management demonstrated in response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Sidewalks are an integral part of the urban transportation system. Communities have become more aware of the importance of safe, accessible, and complete sidewalk systems due to ADA compliance, increases in litigation, designation of Safe School Routes, and growing interest in creating an enhanced urban lifestyle based on walking.