Freight Transportation Stakeholders:

 

The Work Zone Designer Series: Oversize/Overweight Vehicle Accommodation in Work Zones document was recently posted in the National Work Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse.  It can be found at the following link: https://www.workzonesafety.org/publication/information-for-work-zone-designers-accommodating-oversize-overweight-vehicles-in-work-zones/.  More details about the document can be found below.

 

Work Zone Designer Series: Oversize/Overweight Vehicle Accommodation in Work Zones

The University of Wisconsin at Madison under the FHWA Work Zone Safety Grant Program developed the Oversize/Overweight Vehicle Accommodation in Work Zones document as part of their Work Zone Design Series training.

 

Abstract:

This document provides information on how to consider accommodating and mitigating oversize and overweight vehicles in work zones. This publication is not intended to be a stand-alone document for designing work zone traffic control plans. State, county, local, and tribal transportation agency subject matter experts, can use this material as reference material to augment their own work zone transportation management planning manuals and guidance materials, and work zone design policies and procedures.

 

The material has been gathered from existing State design manuals, considered as noteworthy state-of-the-practices by the authors and worthy of sharing with other states, and from state-of-the-art work zone safety and traffic management research documents developed by the U.S. General Accountability Office, the FHWA and other transportation research institutions.

 

Publisher: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Traffic Operations and Safety Laboratory

Publication Date: 2021

Full Text URL: Link to URL

 

If you have questions about the document, please contact Martha Kapitanov in the FHWA Office of Operations at [log in to unmask].