About Us
In 1999, FHWA established the Work Zone Mobility and Safety Program. Our goal is to "make work zones work better" by providing transportation practitioners with high-quality products, tools, and information that can be used to help improve work zone management, and ultimately reduce congestion and crashes due to work zones.
The Work Zone Mobility and Safety Program resides in the FHWA HQ Office of Operations and is staffed by two full-time, customer-oriented leaders in work zones who coordinate and manage the delivery of products, tools, and technical assistance for widespread use across the highway community. In addition, these staffers lead a Work Zone Mobility and Safety Integrated Product Team (IPT), comprised of representatives from the FHWA Resource Center and the FHWA HQ Offices of Safety; Planning, Environment, and Realty; Infrastructure; and Research, Technology, and Development. The IPT provides expertise and input to the Work Zone Program from a cross-cutting perspective.
The Work Zone Mobility and Safety Program offers transportation practitioners numerous resources that can be of value in planning, designing, and implementing safer, more efficient, and less congested work zones. These resources include:
- Comprehensive information and guidance for implementing the Work Zone Safety and Mobility Rule (23 CFR 630 Subpart J).
- A Peer-to-Peer Program that provides State and Local transportation agencies easy access to knowledgeable peers across a range of work zone issues, at no cost to these agencies.
- A Best Practices Guidebook, which includes recommended "state of the practice" approaches, procedures, and technologies for work zone mobility and safety management, collected from State and Local transportation agencies.
- A Work Zone Self Assessment, used by each FHWA Division Office and partner State on an annual basis to measure their current state-of-practice and identify future work zone quality improvement efforts.
- Work zone training courses, to help practitioners plan, design, and implement safe and effective work zones.
- Current News related to work zones, from both national and international sources.
- Publications and studies on a variety of work zone topics, including work zone ITS, traffic analysis tools for work zones, contracting methods, construction strategies, public information and outreach for work zones, and others.
The Work Zone Mobility and Safety Web site serves as a central location for work zone-related resources and is updated with new information and resources on a regular basis.
The Work Zone Mobility and Safety Program maintains a distribution list of people interested in receiving publications when they are printed and notices of important work zone-related information. To join this list, please send your name and contact information to WorkZoneFeedback@dot.gov and note that you would like to be added to the mailing list and/or email list.
