Project Title: Improving Work Zone Safety Through Better Work Zone Traffic Management and Enforcement

Sponsor: Texas Department of Transportation

Principle Investigator: Jerry Ullman

Research Staff: Mike Fontaine and Nada Trout

TTI Project Number: 421372

Start Date: 9/1/99

End Date: 8/31/02

Key Issues: Examine how work zones can be designed and operated to better support enforcement efforts, identify key traffic management and safety problems at work zones on high-speed, high-volume facilities (as well as the underlying causes of those problems), and test alternative strategies and techniques now available to address these issues.