Colorado. Transportation Safety and Traffic Engineering Branch
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Pub. Date
2013.
Description
The purpose of this review is to assess the effectiveness and consistency of Work zone safety and mobility (WZSM) policies and practices for design, construction, maintenance and operations. The WZSM Process Review Team assessed the effectiveness and work towards consistent implementation and better understanding of current policies and practices throughout CDOT. The focus of this WZSM Process Review is to improve the safety and efficiency of work...
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Positive protection is defined by Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) as "devices that contain and/or redirect vehicles and meet the crash worthiness evaluation criteria contained in NCHRP Report 350." By this definition, positive protection devices should prevent intrusion into the work area. These guidelines address the use of positive protection devices in work zones.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
"Guide" signs are those official signs, manufactured and installed by CDOT and others, which give information about and direction to many different types of services and destinations. CDOT receives hundreds of requests for highway signing. Published information provides an outline of CDOT's policies and procedures related to the more common types of signing requests received by the Department.