Tuesday, September 19, 2014

ON THE ROAD

Summer is quickly winding down which means industry conferences are gearing up. Brown Traffic will be in attendance at many of these. See our Fall schedule below.

September

17-19

MOVITE Fall Conference

Lincoln, NE

Iowa Streets and Road Conference

Ames, IA

TEAM Transportation Fair

Maryland Heights, MO

October

15-16

TES Conference

Champaign, IL

ITS Minnesota Fall Forum

St. Paul, MN

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

~George Bernard Shaw

KUDOS

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, AAA and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce announced the 2014 America's Transportation Awards competition TOP 10 projects on September 8, 2014.

In 2010, MoDOT was the Grand Prize winner and in 2013 won the People's Choice.

This year's online voting has begun and Illinois/Missouri are in the Top 10 for the Mississippi River Bridge project.

To review all the projects, go to this link, then click on one of the projects and you will go to the ballot to vote.

Good luck to all!!!

Welcome to this week's "Tuesday Traffic Tips."

This week, we will review grounding practices for traffic control systems.

Please also note the upcoming industry conferences
and take a moment to vote in the America's Transportation People's Choice Award.

We hope you enjoy this week's Tuesday Traffic Tip!

TRAFFIC TIP

A large percentage of damage and misoperation of traffic control systems are caused by induced surge currents and transient over-voltage. This oftens occurs in power and signal lines if they are multi-grounded and unprotected.

This week's Tuesday Traffic Tip will review the Grounding Practices for Traffic Control Systems, which was previously featured in the IMSA Journal.

WEBINAR

Our partners at Iteris are offering a very informative webinar titled

"Transit Priority and Connected Vehicles"

This webinar takes place on Wednesday, September 24, 2014 from 11AM-Noon.

Space is limited so register today.

For more information and to register click here.

TRAFFIC TRIVIA

Know your traffic trivia? Here's your chance to show us.

MUTCD cover

In the most recent version of the MUTCD, which section (number) covers traffic signals?

Send your answer to: marketing@browntraffic.com with "Traffic Trivia" in the subject line.

The correct answer to the September 2nd Traffic Trivia was "South of Centerville, SD"

TRAFFIC "LITES"

be prepared

This message pretty much sums up construction season delays.

If you have a funny picture of a traffic related item, send it to marketing@browntraffic.com .

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