General Session
ARDOT Welcome | Director Lorie Tudor, P.E., ARDOT |
Federal Highway Administration Update | Vivien Hoang, FHWA |
Creating Equitable Traffic Safety through a Vision Zero Approach | Dean Scott, NHTSA |
TRB 101: What You Need To Know About The Transportation Research Board | Stephen Maher, TRB |
From the Flintstones to the Jetsons: How Transportation Affects the Protection of Roadway Workers | Cindy Williams, ATSSA Sarah Stillman, ATSSA |
Safety Advances for Roadway Workers Panel Moderated by Deric Wyatt | Spencer Stillman, Time Striping Matt Emberton, ARDOT Eddie Tanner, ARDOT |
Safe Systems Planning and Operations
Lighting in the Balance: The Highs and Lows Roadway Lighting | Ronald Gibbons, VTTI |
2024 Solar Eclipse Traffic Management Plan | Nicci Tiner, Garver |
Four Minutes of Darkness, Lessons Learned from the 2024 Solar Eclipse | Michael Kelly, ARDOT |
The Safe Systems Pyramid: A New Framework For Traffic Safety | Rachael Thompson Panik, Georgia Institute of Technology |
A Crash Course on Arkansas’ Data | Anthony Dao, ARDOT |
Stuck No More! ARDOT’s Incident Management On I-40 | Edward Holcomb, Garver Nicci Tiner, Garver |
Road Safety Audits | Walt Catlett, Catlett Engineering |
Safety Is No Accident
Making Work Zones Safer | Henry Brown, University of MO, Columbia |
Traffic Incident Management and TIM Training Facility | Lieutenant Brad Perkins, AHP |
TSMO Safety Innovation at ARDOT | Hussain Alfaraj, ARDOT |
Safety Assessment For Every Roadway (SAFER) | Katy Harlan, MODOT |
High Crash Work-Zones | Tyrone Dillard, AHP |
Charting a Course to Safer Streets: Fayetteville’s $25 Million Safe Streets 4 All Initiative | Dane Eifling, City of Fayetteville Chris Brown, City of Fayetteville Matt Mihalevich, City of Fayetteville |
Right Vs Wrong: Reducing Wrong-Way Crashes In Arkansas Using Passive And Active Systems | Joe Hawkins, ARDOT |
Technology And Innovation
EnViewer to EnQuery: Seeing is Believing! Behind the Scenes of Arkansas Road Projects | Linda DeMasi, ARDOT Marisol Filares, ARDOT Robert Reed, ARDOT |
Digital Engineering QC – A New Way | Josh Kleitsch, Olsson |
Safety Analysis Process: Core Module #7 | Walt Catlett, Catlett Engineering |
142+ Hours | Valarie Nichols, ARDOT Kaili Teeter, ARDOT |
What Can Right of Way Engineering Do For You? | Genevieve Haller, DelDOT |
ARDOT Real-Time GNSS Network | Eric Benson, ARDOT |
Stuck in Traffic? We Know Why! A Look at ARDOT’s Resources to Analyze Congestion on Arkansas’ Highways? | Sharon Hawkins, ARDOT Christopher Pipkin, ARDOT |
Research Update
TRC2104 – Maintenance Guidelines for MSE Walls | Michelle Barry, UAF |
TRC2101 – Update of the ArDOT Workforce Forecasting System | Suman Mitra, UAF |
TRC2102 – Effect of Asphalt-Binder Compatibility on Performance of Asphalt Mixtures in Arkansas | Zahid Hossain, ASU |
TRC2103 – Developing Guidelines for Evaluating Weathering Steel Bridges | Ernie Heymsfield, UAF |
TRC2303 – Evaluation of Impacts Due to A Bridge Closure: A Case Study of the Mississippi River Bridges in Arkansas | Sarah Hernandez, UAF |
TRC2203 – Low Shrinkage Concrete Mixtures for Arkansas | Shuyah Ouoba, UAF |
TRC2204 – Materials Testing Specifications for Drilled Shaft Concrete | Cameron Murray, UAF |
Bridge Tech
ARDOT’s New Bridge Inspection Technology | Caleb Lambert, ARDOT Jake Norris, ARDOT |
Why Bridge Load Ratings are Important | Tim Armbrecht, Michael Baker Intl. |
Rehabilitation of the Garrison Avenue Bridge in Fort Smith, Arkansas | Ed Liberati, Hydro-Technologies |
Utilizing Contractual BIM in your Structures Workflow, Design to Construction | Daniel Jensen, Michael Baker Intl. |
TRC1903 – Investigating Concrete Deck Cracking in Continuous Steel Bridges | Ernie Heymsfield, UAF |
A View From Below: The ARDOT Dive Team Initiative | Nate Brown, ARDOT Tori Elliott, ARDOT |
wikiHow to Repair a Bridge in Arkansas? | Kevin Weston, ARDOT |
Infrastructure Materials
FHWA – Mobile Asphalt Technology Center | Michael Huner, FHWA |
Effect of Lag and Dwell Time on Balanced Mix Design Testing | Ram Veeraraghavan, FHWA |
Partnering Pavement Performance | Tisha Reynolds, ARDOT |
New Friction/Polishing Test for Asphalt Mixtures | Wade Collins, Pavement Technology Inc. |
Earthquake-Induced Soil Liquefaction and Transportation Structures | David Baska, Terracon |
Understanding Alkali-Silica Reaction Susceptibility of Aggregates Used in Concrete | Chandni Balachandran, FHWA |
Practical Applications of the TFHRC ASR Management Tools | Jose Muñoz, FHWA |