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Evaluating static work zone signs in Oklahoma.

Recently completed research

• SUDAS project: Design Guide for Improved Quality of Roadway Subgrades and Subbases (TR-525)
• Midwest Transportation Consortium projects:
  • Implementation of HERS-ST in Iowa and Development /Refinement of a National Training Program
  • PONTIS: Iowa DOT and Counties, Phase III: Implementation and Operation
• Smark Work Zone Deployment Initiative project: Evaluation of Early Merge Static Work Zone Signing in Oklahoma

Go! magazine, Sept–Oct 2008
Focus on fuel

• Powering up with poop and plants
• Shine down on me: Solar cars
• Up, up and away:
  The rising price of fuel

Request for pre-proposals
The Midwest Transportation Consortium requests pre-proposals (RFPP) for cost-shared research that addresses transportation safety through improvements in management information systems. For the purposes of this RFPP, such research includes activities, databases, and tools designed to reduce injuries and fatalities on the nation's transportation network. See the full RFPP (46 kb pdf).

Upcoming training opportunities

• Low Cost Safety and Traffic Studies Workshop offers separate sessions for rural and urban concerns beginning Oct. 21
• Traffic Safety Forum, Oct. 28, Des Moines, with featured speaker Randy Williams, regional president, AAA Iowa

Call for student papers
The Midwest Transportation Consortium invites graduate and undergraduate students in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska to submit their transportation-related, original research to the annual Transportation Scholars Conference. Cash prizes of $1,250 and $250 will be awarded to the writers of the top two papers. Learn more.

Student job openings:

• Office assistants
• Student software developers

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