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Using proven Highway Safety Manual tools and methods can help you accurately evaluate, predict, and reduce the factors that contribute to safety issues on your roadways.

This workshop will cover the following: ? Overview of the Safety Edge ? Choosing a road on which to try it ? Special equipment and additional costs ? Compaction, shoulder maintenance, and durability Instructor is Wayne Harrall, Director of Engineering, Kent CRC

Using proven Highway Safety Manual tools and methods can help you accurately evaluate, predict, and reduce the factors that contribute to safety issues on your roadways.

Using proven Highway Safety Manual tools and methods can help you accurately evaluate, predict, and reduce the factors that contribute to safety issues on your roadways.

Safety is an important consideration for any local road agency. However it can be difficult to find funding for safety improvements such as guardrails signs and pedestrian crossings while attempting to maintain the condition of roads within a jurisdiction. In response to this problem initiatives such as the High Risk Rural Road (HRRR) Program and the Local Safety Program are available to provide funding for improving the safety of intersections and roadways in Michigan.

Every Day Counts Exchange

What is asset management and how can it help stretch your road budget? We use the basic principles of asset management every day in making decisions in our personal and professional lives. Why not use the same principles when it comes to making decisions about road maintenance and planning for future needs? Come join us for this workshop where instructors will discuss the following: ? The nuts and bolts of asset management principles ? How to use actual measured data to make decisions about road projects ? Why you might fix the best-quality roads first ? Who wins when you choose the right preventative maintenance strategy

State-of-practice education will include... ? Material composition, sizes, stockpiling ? Fractionating RAP for advance mix control ? Obstacles to increase use ? How increased use will minimize virgin aggregate material and transportation costs ? Uses of RAP in road building ? Pavement reclamation depth in relationship to recycling cost Instructors - Vince Egan & Charles Mills

PASER Training The Center for Technology and Training will be conducting annual PASER training on behalf of the Michigan Transportation Asset Management Council (TAMC) for the current data collection season. Who Needs To Attend? Anyone who intends to participate in the TAMC PASER condition data collection during the current year on either the federal aid or non federal aid system and expects to be reimbursed by the TAMC for their effort must attend the PASER Classroom Training Session. New raters or others that did not actively rate in the previous two years must also attend the PASER Webinar Training. Note - New raters need to attend the PASER Webinar prior to attending the Classroom Training. Registration All participants MUST register in advance for the training. Space is limited. To register contact: Center for Technology & Training Phone 906-487-2102 Email -- ctt@mtu.edu

Instructor Tom Wood, a research project supervisor from the Minnesota Department of Transportation, will explain the equipment and procedure necessary for performing cold in-place asphalt reclamation. Amy Schoonover, P.E., Director of Public Works for the City of Charlotte, and Wayne A. Schoonover, P.E., County Highway Engineer for the Ionia County Road Commission, will present case studies in Michigan highlighting projects that used cold in-place recycling.