Office of Policy Planning
- A Guidebook
for Nighttime Construction: Impacts on Safety, Quality, and Productivity - This guidebook provides nighttime
construction best practices concerning 1) implementation of new or innovative ideas to convert necessary
work activities to effective nighttime production; 2) proven safety processes; 3) development of
communication strategies (both external and internal); and 4) work-zone illumination methods,
including a list of new and innovative lighting equipment with associated advantages and disadvantages.
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Looking Back and Moving Forward: Creating a Legacy of Sustainable Transportation
in an Evolving Field - This paper documents the incremental changes in municipal planning and
transportation departments that have enabled transformation, and it provides a blueprint for other agencies
that seek to spur similar changes in their own cities.
- PIARC Reports (Sign-in required)
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Reduction of Construction Time and Cost of Road Pavements - This report describes a list of methods in
reducing construction time and costs, analyses them and provides a number of case histories.
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Financing, Contracting and Managing of Road System Investment - This report provides information on the
current methods and approaches relating to: the different combinations of public and private sector
involvement in the provision of sustainable road systems and the perceived advantages and disadvantages of
these methods; the different approaches employed for funding and financing of sustainable road systems; and
the various forms of procuring private sector involvement in the maintenance and operations of sustainable
road systems and the perceived benefits and dis-benefits of novel methods against the more traditional forms
of maintenance and operations.
- Miscellaneous Reports
For further information contact Monica Zhong or phone (850) 414-4808