- T2 Center Training Team Looking Ahead in 2019!
- 2019 Roadway Safety Poster Contest for Children is Underway!
- Signal Spotlights: Greenwich Adaptive Control Signal Technology Project
- INFO TO GO: Flexible Pavement Preservation Treatments
- A Focus on Safety During Winter Maintenance Operations
- Knitting Transit and Walkability into the Patchwork of Downtown Hartford
- Innovation Station: Every Day Counts Round Five Starts Now
- Happy New Year from the T2 Center Team
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T2 Center Training Team Look Ahead in 2019!
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Thank you all for your interest in professional development and your support of the Technology Transfer Center. We are looking forward to another year full of providing you with quality training and development opportunities. As we move into the new year, please note that effective January 2019, regular session workshop fees will increase to $100 per one-day class for municipal and state employees. This rate increase is the first increase in over 10 years and will help the Technology Transfer Center maintain the existing level of training offerings and contain the continually increasing workshop related expenses.
The new schedule can be found
here
. As you look over the schedule, please let us know if you are interested in hosting a session. We appreciate being able to offer t
rainings around the state and in partnership with local agencies. As a host, you will benefit from having the training in town so your staff doesn't have to travel for the class they need. You will also receive two (2) scholarship seats valued at $100.00 each from the T2 Center for your staff to attend a class of their choosing, valid for one year from issuance.
Later in January, we will be sending out the
Host Site Requirements
with more details on the type of space we need to ensure a successful workshop session for all. If you know of a facility in your town that meets our needs and you would like to be a host for us, we'd love to hear from you! Please contact Shelly Desjardin at
shelly.desjardin@uconn.edu.
We would also like to offer an added
Thank you
to those of you who have been regular hosts each season. Your continued support is greatly appreciated!
We are very excited about this year's training programs.
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2019 Roadway Safety Poster Contest for Children Is Underway!
The CT Technology Transfer Center, with the support from agencies and organizations around the state, is bringing awareness of roadway safety to Connecticut. We are happy to announce the
Ninth Annual Roadway Safety Poster Contest for Children!
We want to make roadway safety a priority and are asking the children of Connecticut to help us promote roadway safety through art. Students grades K-6 are invited to submit their original artwork for the chance to win big prizes and be recognized at the Work Zone Safety Awareness Week Press Conference, held in April.
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The PBS KIDS' "Ruff
Ruffman
—Driving" digital initiative provides resources to encourage kids to become better passengers and to play an active role in helping parents to keep their eyes on the road. The campaign's unusual approach tunes into the idea that kids are acutely aware of their parents' distraction especially when they are driving. To visit the website
click here
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Signal Spotlights: Greenwich Adaptive Control Signal Technology Project
The Arch Street corridor in Greenwich experiences heavy congestion due to commuter traffic associated with I-95 as well as the train station and downtown central business district. This congestion results in excess delay and queues that extend onto the I-95 Exit ramp.
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The town plans to alleviate some of this congestion by using an adaptive control system to allocate appropriate green time to the highest volume approach based on existing conditions on the road at that time.
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The following intersections will be placed under adaptive control:
- Greenwich Avenue/Railroad Avenue/Steamboat Road/Bruce Park Drive
- Steamboat Road/Arch Street/Museum Drive
- Arch Street at Island Beach Crossing
- Arch Street at I-95 North Exit 3
- Arch Street at I-95 South Exit 3
- Arch Street at Horseneck Lane
- Arch Street at Railroad Avenue
To continue reading this Signal Spotlight,
click here
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If you have traffic signal systems questions, please contact:
Theresa Schwartz, P.E., P.T.O.E. - Traffic Signal Circuit Rider
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INFO TO GO: Flexible Pavement Treatments
Get ready for paving season by learning more about the different treatments available to help you keep your roads in good shape. In this issue of INFO TO GO, we focus on the online
Flexible Pavement Preservation Treatments
Training Courses, available free to state and local highway agencies through AASHTO's Transportation Curriculum Coordination Council (TC3)
website
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Share Your Experience.
Please let us know if you have taken a class and what you think of this type of learning. Email
Mary McCarthy
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"A Focus on Safety During Winter Maintenance Operations"
by the West Virginia Local Technical Assistance Program
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Winter operations are a backbone of West Virginia street and roadway departments; focusing on safety while conducting these operations is a must. Winter weather inherently poses various hazards, such as cold weather, poor visibility (both when driving on the roads and in the agency's yard), long shifts, working in the dark, inexperienced drivers...the list goes on and on. While we can't control the weather and some of these other hazards, there are things that can be done to enhance safety.
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Snow Plow Operator Backing Safety:
Did you know that the number one cause of commercial motor vehicle crashes is backing up? Backing up is also one of the most dangerous maneuvers that drivers do in the yard. While you are never going to eliminate backing up your trucks, here are a few techniques that can help keep you and your co-workers safer.
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Knitting Transit and Walkability into the Patchwork of Downtown Hartford
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From a birds-eye view, Hartford, Connecticut appears to be made up of many different patches of a quilt. This quality has been embraced by a public/private urban design strategy organization called
iQuilt
. iQuilt helps connect more than 40 cultural and destination assets of downtown Hartford: museums, performance spaces, historic landmarks, modern architecture, and public art, through a strict lens of innovative walkability and creative place-making.
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The iQuilt plan is an integrated suite of projects ranging from enhanced transit to public gardens with flowing water bordered by shops and housing. Jackie Mandyck, Managing Director of the iQuilt Partnership, says walkability and other active forms of transit and mobility are at the heart of everything iQuilt plans and designs.
"We took on the challenge of becoming the walk gods of Hartford. We had to ask, how do we start to get people on the street? Not just telling them to, but providing information for why they want to get outside and walk," says Mandyck.
One of the defining features of iQuilt is its rich connectivity through partnerships, including relationships with CTtransit, the Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT)-owned bus service, and Hartford Business Improvement District (BID). One of the main goals of transit-walkability collaboration is to knit the iQuilt mission with making transit cool again, while enhancing economic vitality in downtown. Jordan Polon, Executive Director of Hartford BID, says it too focuses on projects that provide cleanliness and safety, marketing, place-making, and beautification, with the shared goal of enhancing quality of life in the district.
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New Year, New Innovations: Every Day Counts Round Five Starts Now
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Click on the picture below to view the EDC-5 Destination Innovation Video.
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Happy New Year from the T2 Center Team
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From all of us at the T2 Center, wishing every day of your new year is filled with success, happiness and prosperity. Safe and Happy New Year! We look forward to working with you in 2019.
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Use these links to get more information about the Connecticut Technology Transfer (T2) Center:
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If you have any ideas or suggestions for future
Connecticut Crossroads
topics, please feel free to email the designer Regina Hackett at
regina.hackett@uconn.edu
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