Southern Plains TTAP

Tribal Technical Assistance Program

Oklahoma State University

Transportation News Update

Serving Tribes in Kansas, Texas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma

September 30, 2013

Special OTTC meeting set in Stillwater

Tuesday, October 1, at Southern Plains TTAP Center

The next meeting of the Oklahoma Tribal Transportation Council will be set at the Southern Plains TTAP Center in Stillwater, OK, on Tuesday, October 1, at 10:30 a.m. Lunch will be served. OTTC will seek approval for nominations to the Transportation Tribal Advisory Board for both the Governor and the Senate Pro Tempore. Other items of business are discussion of OTTC shirt design and election of officers.

Agenda

LD Scholarship Bylaws

Meeting Location:

5202 N Richmond Hill Dr

Stillwater, OK 74078

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Crash Data Collection training coming

Monday, November 18 at ODOT Training Center

Millions of dollars are spent annually to make our highways safe and efficient, with most safety improvements resulting from the analysis of crash information at specific locations. The Crash Data Collection class will teach you how to log in to the Oklahoma's Safe-T System where you will be able to access crash data for your area. This 2 1/2 hour class will be conducted by Paul Richardson, Oklahoma DOT, Traffic Engineering Division, Collision Analysis & Safety Branch.

This training will provide access to important data as you move forward in safety planning!

Oklahoma DOT Training Center

1025 Southeast 59th Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73129-7007

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National Tribal Transportation Conference

Mystic Lake Hotel & Conference Center in Prior Lake, MN

October 28 - Nov. 1

The 16th annual National Tribal Transportation Conference will be held in conjunction and cooperation with the Minnesota Tribes and Transportation Conference on October 28 - November 1, 2013 at the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community's Mystic Lake Hotel and Conference Center, located in Prior Lake, Minnesota.

Sessions will involve topics relating to innovation, partnerships, planning, safety, technology, transit, tribal leaders, and legal updates. FTA will be on hand all day Thursday to discuss funding and compliance.

More Information

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Hotel Information

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Planning for Progress

Southern Plains TTAP to host Planning Forum

November 12-13 at Hard Rock Hotel Tulsa

Hotel Reservations

Click "Online Reservation"

Group Code: TRANSNOV2013

To call in your reservation, use the name, "OSU Tribal Transportation"
800-760-6700

Agenda coming soon!

Flagger Course coming

Thursday, October 10
Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribe in Mayetta, Kansas

Controlling traffic through work areas is one of the most important - and dangerous - operations in construction maintenance. The primary objectives of the Flagger Course are to train flaggers to proide safe passage of traffic through and around work areas and to minimize confusion by bringing standard flagging procedures to our nation's highways.

Register

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Accelerating Innovation

Alternative Contracting Methods: Deployment from EDC2 Summits until NOW -
Where are we?

Webinar- October 17

This webinar will provide an "ACM 101" for staff who missed the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Every Day Counts2 Summits, as well as more information about the technical issues/benefits related to these three specific Alternative Contracting Methods-Alternate Technical Concepts (ATC), Construction Manager/General Contractor (CM/GC), Design-Build (D-B). In addition, the FHWA will provide new information gleaned since the Summits, including deployment efforts!

This webinar will highlight these three unique Alternative Contracting Methods and demonstrate how they are all successful in accelerating project delivery, encouraging the deployment of innovation, and minimizing unforeseen delays and cost overruns. The ideal ACM Webinar attendee works for the FHWA, State departments of transportation, local public agencies, and/or is a member of associations like AASHTO, AGC, ARTBA, NACE, LTAPs-the Nation's transportation contracting, design, and construction-related professionals, in any of these vast highway project development and construction areas.

Moderator:

Jeff Lewis - FHWA Resource Center, Sacramento

Speakers:

Design-Build (D-B) - Jerry Blanding - FHWA Resource Center, Baltimore
Construction Manager/General Contractor (CM/GC) - John Haynes - FHWA Utah Division Office
Alternate Technical Concepts (ATCs) - Craig Actis - FHWA Resource Center, Atlanta

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FTA Seeks Comment on Ways to Strengthen, Coordinate Transit Safety and Asset Management
Public input key to implementation

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) has announced that the agency is seeking public comment on the most significant regulatory step taken under FTA's new transit safety authority. The Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on Safety and Transit Asset Management will be published in the Federal Register next week. A safety and transit asset management rulemaking is required by the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21), and covers several topics that signal FTA's commitment to ensuring that keeping transit systems in good working order goes hand-in-hand with keeping them safe.

To view the news release and preview of the ANPRM, please click here. FTA encourages safety advocates, industry leaders and the general public to review the ANPRM and provide comments on the proposals contained in the notice. Comments must be received within 90 days of the date the notice is published.

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Jim Self, Director
jim.self@okstate.edu

Karla Sisco, Editor

karla.sisco@okstate.edu

405-744-6049

Southern Plains TTAP Advisory Committee

Training Schedule

This material is based upon work supported by the U. S. Department of Transportation under Agreement No. DTFH61-12-H-00004. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the Author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Federal Highway Administration.

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