ATSSA Signal May June 2020

The Signal | May/June 2020 41 Member Engagement Send your suggestions to communications@atssa.com for people to interview and questions to ask for future installments of Transportation Conversations. to accomplish. Part of that is striping and pavementmarkings, whichhavea limited life and need to be maintained. For the first time with those resources, we are able to do significant crosswalk and bike - way re-striping. Last year, we re-striped about 1,500 high-visibility crosswalks, versus 500 the previous year. Q: What new technology has your department implemented and what impact has it had? A: We are constantly using technology andpilotingtechnology.Wehadagoodpilot program with curbFlow to help manage pressures on our curbsides. In particular, we had a challenge where commercial vehicles were double and triple parking. Wedida researchexperiment tomanage that by schedule. We also experimented with creating pick-up and drop-off zones forbothcommercial andpassenger traffic. Q: What defines your agency’s approach to the most pressing transportation problems you face today? A: Our philosophy is really thinking about and using data to prioritize where weareputting insafety interventions. The data only tells one part of the story, but it helpsprioritizewherewearespendingour resources. For example,wecompileda list of the highest-frequency crash locations, andwe areworking on those data points as we seek solutions for safer roads.