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... 126 Project Coordination 7.1 Description "Project coordination" (PC) refers to the various strategies and actions undertaken to coordinate with other projects, utilities, and ROWs.
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... Project Coordination 127 7.4 Expected Effectiveness While it is not feasible to measure the safety or mobility effectiveness of PC, this strategy is expected to have a beneficial effect on safety related to all types of work zones by potentially reducing traffic congestion, reducing exposure of highway users to work zones and workers to traffic, and improving emergency response and enforcement of work zone traffic laws. Transportation agencies that focus on improving coordination, planning, and scheduling of work activities have had positive experiences.
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... 128 Strategies for Work Zone Transportation Management Plans or jointly establishing performance goals for a corridor and collaborating to monitor and meet them. Coordination with emergency responders is vital when planning and scheduling work zones.
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... Project Coordination 129 language, reallocating staff resources, and forging a cooperative relationship with other regional agencies and stakeholders. Toward this end, it may be necessary to develop formal memorandums of understanding between stakeholders to obtain their commitment to the PC efforts.
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... 130 Strategies for Work Zone Transportation Management Plans The FHWA Office of Operations, Work Zone Management Program website lists examples of how cities and regions have successfully coordinated projects and their associated benefits (http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/wz/construction/crp/index.htm)
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... Project Coordination 131 Figure 7.2. I-295 project map (Credit: DDOT)
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... 132 Strategies for Work Zone Transportation Management Plans delay during construction and maintenance activities. The One Corridor Focus began as a result of lengthy travel delays resulting from 19 concurrent reconstruction projects on Interstate 94 in 2010, a corridor that stretches 250 mi through three MDOT regions.

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