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FHWA Announces New
Every Day Counts Innovations
Eleven technologies and practices are on the fourth-round roster of Every Day Counts, the Federal Highway Administration’s state-based initiative to deploy proven innovations to shorten and enhance project delivery.
The EDC-4 innovations include advanced hydraulic modeling tools, targeted pavement preservation treatments, cost-effective pedestrian safety strategies, weather-savvy roads and more. FHWA will offer technical assistance, training and resources to help transportation agencies and stakeholders adopt the innovations in 2017 and 2018.
Every two years, FHWA works with the transportation
community to identify a new set of innovations that merit widespread deployment
through EDC. FHWA’s call for suggestions for EDC-4 innovations drew a strong
response from stakeholders, who offered more than 80 new ideas.
Transportation leaders will gather at regional summits this
fall to learn about the EDC-4 innovations. EDC’s third round continues until
the end of December.
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EDC-3 Working Groups Gather for Arizona Workshop
Members of Arizona’s
10 EDC-3 innovation working groups met June 14 in Phoenix for an Arizona
Council for Transportation Innovation workshop. After the working groups met
separately to discuss their innovation deployment efforts, they provided status
overviews to the entire workshop group and answered questions. The semiannual
workshops provide an opportunity for Arizona Council for Transportation
Innovation members to get updates and provide input on all of the state’s innovation
deployment efforts in one sitting.
North
Dakota Signs Programmatic Agreement
The North Dakota
Department of Transportation and FHWA executed a programmatic
agreement for categorical exclusions on June 17 to help streamline the
environmental review process on Federal-Aid Highway Program projects. The
agreement enables the North Dakota DOT to determine whether a project qualifies
for categorical exclusions, actions that don’t involve significant
environmental impacts. The agreement will expedite project delivery while
maintaining accuracy in the environmental documentation and approval process.
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