Region 7 Traffic Safety Research Forum

March 30, 2006, St. Joseph, Missouri

Holiday Inn - Riverfront
102 South Third Street
St. Joseph, MO 64501

The Midwest Transportation Consortium (MTC), in cooperation with the Iowa DOT, Kansas DOT, Missouri DOT, and Nebraska DOR, will be hosting this opportunity for the four states and local governments to share, discuss, and prioritize traffic operates and safety issues and ideas. These will be used to develop research topics and establish partnerships to advance highway safety and traffic operations in the four state region. The MTC will summarize the information and provide feedback to the participants.

Tentative agenda

9:00 – 10:00 am Registration and Refreshments

10:00 – 10:20 am Introduction, overview of the meeting and charge for the day

10:20 – 10:50 am Overview by state DOT representative of current activities in the region

11:00 – 2:00 pm Break into working groups/a working luncheon will be served

• Low volume and rural roads safety and operational issues.
• Freeway and Expressway safety and operational issues.
• Urban surface street operations and safety.
• Crash records and crash record analysis.
• Education, enforcement, emergency management, and incident management issues.
• Work zones safety and operational issues.

2:00 – 2:15 pm Break

2:15 – 3:00 pm Reconvene the group, present priority topics from focus groups and select high priority topics.

3:00 pm Adjourn

Two to four weeks later a summary report will be e-mailed to all attendees.

Lodging

Please make your own Holiday Inn Riverfront hotel reservations at: http://www.ichotelsgroup.com/h/d/hi/1/en/hd/sjrmo

Registration

Please register for this free event by fax or email. The registration form is in Word. Submit to fax 515-294-0467 or jathomas@iastate.edu.

Meeting Write-Up

Download meeting write-up here (43K pdf)