TRB Webinar: Introducing the Guidelines for Implementing Managed Lanes

TRB conducted a webinar on Monday, April 10, 2017, from 1:00PM to 3:00PM ET that features research from the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 835: Guidelines for Implementing Managed Lanes. This report provides guidance for transportation agencies interested in designing, implementing, operating, and maintaining managed lanes. In recent years, new managed lane tools, strategies, policies, and services have been developed. These new practices can influence the ways in which practitioners apply managed lanes. The presenters discuseds highlights from major chapters in the guide, focusing on the latest research and practice.

This webinar was organized by the TRB Standing Committees on Managed Lanes and Operational Effects of Geometrics. A certificate for 2.0 Professional Development Hours (PDHs) was provided to attendees who register and attend the webinar as an individual. This webinar was approved by the American Institute of Certified Planners for 2.0 Certification Maintenance Credits.Contact Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu for instructions on receiving a copy of the recorded webinar.

The slides are available.

Webinar Presenters

• Kay Fitzpatrick, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
• Chuck Fuhs, Chuck Fuhs, LLC
• Nick Wood, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
• David Ungemah, WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff
• Marcus Brewer, Texas A&M Transportation Institute
• Susan Chrysler, Texas A&M Transportation Institute

Moderated by: Joe Rouse, California Department of Transportation

Webinar Outline

1. Overview of NCHRP guidelines
2. Introduction to managed lanes
3. Planning considerations
4. Implementation and deployment
5. Design elements
6. Traffic control devices
7. Operations and maintenance
8. Question and answer session

The first 90 minutes of the webinar will be for presentations and the final 30 minutes will be reserved for audience questions. The Registered Continuing Education Program (RCEP) categorizes this webinar activity as relating to health, safety, and welfare including core technical.

Learning Objectives

At the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Understand the role managed lanes serve; the different managed lane strategies and facility types; and the experiences in the application of managed lanes
• Understand how to apply specific types of treatments to common operational and design settings, and how the research affects the latest design applications
• Describe the lessons learned among the projects in operation, with emphasis on the most common types of managed lanes applying tolling as one of the management tools
• Discuss what materials in the new managed lanes guide are most critical to a participant's role in managed lane implementation

Registration Information

There is no fee for employees of TRB Sponsors or TRB Sustaining Affiliates who register using their work email address. In addition to employees of TRB sponsor organizations, the following are eligible to receive complimentary webinar registration:

• TRB and National Academies employees;
• Chairs of TRB standing committees, sections, or groups;
• CRP panel members who were involved with developing the report or project that is the subject of the webinar;
• Members of the media;
• Employees of tribal governments; and
• Members of Congress or their staff.

Other sites must pay $95 per site. View our pricing page for details.

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.

Professional Development Hour Information

A certificate for 2.0 Professional Development Hours (PDHs) will be provided to Professional Engineers (PEs) who register and attend the webinar as an individual. For groups, only the person that registers and attends the session will receive a PDH certificate.

Individuals registered as Florida PEs are no longer required to email TRB with your license number to report your attendance. Instead, please use your certificate that TRB provides through RCEP.net as verification of your attendance to the Florida Board of Professional Engineers.

Please check with your licensing board to ensure that TRB webinar PDHs are approved by your board.

This webinar was developed in October 2016. TRB has met the standards and requirements of the Registered Continuing Education Program (RCEP). Credit earned on completion of this program will be reported to RCEP by TRB. Certificates of Completion will be issued to individuals who register for and attend the entire webinar session. Complaints about registered providers may be sent to RCEP, 1015 15th Street, NW, 8th Floor, Washington, DC 20005. Website: www.RCEP.net.

American Institute of Certified Planners Certification Maintenance Credits

This webinar was approved by the American Institute of Certified Planners for 2.0 Certification Maintenance Credits. Please make sure that you register for this session and log-in using the link that TRB provides to your email account. We use this as your record that you attended this session. TRB only maintains the records of attendees who use their email address to log into the webinar, and cannot verify attendance of individuals who view the webinar without personally logging into the session.

Please visit the Certification Maintenance section of APA’s website, Certification Maintenance webpage at www.planning.org/cm to claim your credits. You may use the following steps:

1. Log in using your ID# and password.
2. Select View my CM log.
3. Select Add CM-Registered Credits.
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6. Please rate the event, add a comment (optional), and click on the Ethics statement and check the box to confirm. Note: you should see a message indicating the CM reporting period year that you are logging.
7. Click submit and the CM credits should appear in your CM log.

If you have problems reporting your CM credits or have general questions about the CM program, please contact AICPCM@planning.org.

Registration questions? Contact Reggie Gillum at RGillum@nas.edu.