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Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

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8:00 - 8:45 a.m.

1 Load Rating Truss Bridges Load Rating Truss Bridges
Kamal C. Sarma
2 Timber Pedestrian Bridges Timber Pedestrian Bridges
David Jones
 
3 The Second Crossing, Greenville Mississippi’s Landmark Bridge

The Second Crossing, Greenville Mississippi’s Landmark Bridge
Steven T. Hague

4

The Latest in Certified Traffic

 

Design Hour Traffic Computations: Manual vs. Automated
Ravi Ambadipudi

Planning Level Traffic, Certified Traffic, and the PDP
Leigh Oesterling

5 In Place Pavement Recycling/Reclamation, Part 1

Full Depth Reclamation of Asphalt Pavements using Lime Activated Class F Fly Ash
William Wolfe
 

6 Geotechnical Data Management System
 
Overview of the ODOT Geotechnical Data Management System
Kirk Beach

ODOT’s GDMS
Terry Cline

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7 Enhancing Ohio’s Economic Development through Strategic Investment in Transportation Infrastructure Enhancing Ohio’s Economic Recovery through Strategic Investment in the Intermodal System
Bruce Mansfield

Enhancing Economic Development Opportunities through Systems Level Planning
Bruce Mansfield and Paul Dorothy

The Potential for Exclusive Truck Facilities in Ohio
Paul Dorothy

8 Field Testing and Performance of Culverts in Ohio Field Testing and Performance of Metal Culverts in Ohio
Halil Sezen
9 Long Span Bridges Erection of the James Rumsey Bridge
David Lattanzi

Review of Three Major Bridge Projects
Cliff Tang
10 Pavement Smoothness at Bridges and Roadways Pavement Smoothness
J. Don Brock | Jim Hedderich

Designing, Constructing, and Correcting: Bridge Rideability
Brian Schleppi | Scott LeBlanc

11 Contractor’s Helpful Hints to the Designer
 
 
Contractor’s Helpful Hints to the Designer
George Palk | Paul Stanard
12 Bike - Pedestrian Safety ODOT’s Bike/PED Policy
Steven Jewell

The Safe Routes to School Program
Julie Walcoff

Accessible Pedestrian Signals - The MUTCD and Future Issues
Kelly Brooker Scocco

13 Pavement Management for Local Governments, Part 1 Lucas County Experience Developing a Pavement Management System
Jeffrey Lohse

Pavement Management Consulting Services
Jody Sucharsk
14 In Place Pavement Recycling/Reclamation, Part 2
 
Innovations in Cold-In-Place Recycling
Renato Ceccovilli

Full Depth Pavement Reclamation with Lime Kiln Dust
Larry Cole

15 Mega Issues Affecting the Geotechnical Community Mega Issues Affecting the Geotechnical Community: What Does the Future Hold?
W. Allen Marr
16 Roadway Pricing Techniques - What’s being done in Ohio? ODOT’s State Infrastructure Bank
Melinda Lawrence

Butler County Transportation Improvement District
John Fonner

Franklin/Pickaway County JEDD
Nate Green

1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (back to top)
17 Bridge Innovation
 
Innovative Bridge Concepts for County Bridges
Warren Schlatter

Performance of Distributed Anode System of Slab Bridge on I-75
Brad Lightle | Chris Ball

18 Cable Stay Bridges in Ohio

Project Overview
Dan Beasley

Overview of Cable Stay Bridges - US Grant Bridge
Ray McCabe

Project Overview
Mike Gramza

Segmental Approach Construction
Jeff Bake

Mainspan Construction
Wade Bonzon

Lessons Learned
Mike Gramza

19 Innovative Intersection and Interchange Treatments
 

Diverging Diamond Interchange
James Young | Nichole English

B. Innovative Interchange/Intersection Panel
Dirk Gross | James Young | Dave Holstein | Larry Sutherland | Greg Parsons

20 ODOT’s Freeze-Thaw Test for Course Aggregate and its Impact on Statewide Aggregate Availability ODOT’s Freeze-Thaw Test for Course Aggregate and its Impact on Statewide Aggregate Availability
William Sheftick
21 Pavement Management for Local Governments - Part 2


 

How Small City Funding Program Works
Randy Lane

Developing a Paving Program using Pavement Condition Data
Daniel Moeglin | Nick Loukas

How the Ohio Public Works Improvement Programs Work
David Kern

Pavement Condition Rating Software Demonstration for Locals
Andrew Williams

22 Improving Communication with the Public
 
Effective Communication: Overcoming the Nuances of the English Language
David Orr

Keeping Peace with the Public
Jim Weber

Public Education and Cultural Resources: Combining and Streamlining to Produce a More Efficient Outcome
Barbara Shaffer

23 Leveraging Electronic Plan Data
 
Tiff Image Submissions
Bill Ujvari

Electronic File Deliverables
Ed Kagel | Dan Reinke

Utilizing Electronic Files in the Field
Pete Kaz

24 City Streets and Stormwater Runoff Controls Enhanced Water Quality Swales and Other BMPS for Greater Cleveland (
Todd Houser

Louisville’s Pervious Concrete Gutter Plates Fight Combined Sewer Overflow
Herbert Schardein

Lansing’s use of Bioretention in an Ultra-Urban Street Design
Anne Thomas

25 Utilizing the Benefits of Subgrade Stabilization in Pavement Design
 

Structural Benefit of Subgrade Stabilization in Kansas
Andy Gisi

Structural Benefit of Subgrade Stabilization in Indiana
Daehyeon Kim

An Evaluation of Subgrade Treatments on the IR 71 Corridor
Perry Ricciardi

26 The Economic Impact Analyses of Transportation Improvements

 

Conducting a Benefit-Cost Analysis
Paula Dowel

Assessing the Economic Impact of an Interchange
Howard Maier

27 Survival Skills for Future Engineers and Transportation Professionals, Part 2 Tort Liability Awareness and Risk Management

Tort Liability Awareness and Risk Management
Mike Fitch

Thinking Inside, Outside, and Around the Box
Mark Henson
 

3:00 - 5:00 p.m. (back to top)
28 Women Leaders in Engineering
 
Women Leaders in Engineering
Marsha Anderson Bomar | Cosema Crawford | Afsnaeh House | Norine Walker | Carolyn J. Merry | WTS
29 Bridge Inspection

Lakeview Drive Bridge over I-70 in Pennsylvania
Ray Hartle

Underwater Inspection of Bridges
Daniel Stromberg

Real Time Bridge Scour Monitoring
Bill Yu

30 Construction Law Principles of Measuring of Inefficiencies

 
The Measurement and Pricing of Inefficiencies on Construction Projects
Scott Lowe

Construction Law Principles for Contract Administrators and Designers
Bill Lindenbaum

Construction Law Principles for Contract Administrators and Designers
Megan Blackford

31 It Was Built and They Came, and Came, So Now it’s Time to Build it Again

Managing Traffic Resulting from Economic and Population Growth
Edward Williams

A Safety Improvement that Promotes Economic Development
Stephen Way

Columbus North Central Outerbelt - US Route 23 Trench Design
Charles Cvitkovich

Positive Economic Impacts of Access Management
Jerome Gluck

32 Concrete Concepts for Local Governments Concrete Maturity Monitoring Used to Open Roadway to Traffic - City of Columbus Experience
Abdulshafi Abdulshafi | Carl Togni

Unbonded Overlays - New Life for Older Streets
Mark Papke

Pervious Concrete Pavement Hydrological Design Considerations and Methods
Julie Buffenbarger

33 Roads, Rails, Trails and Commerce SR747 CSX Rail Grade Separation - The Inside Track to Commerce Richard Miller

A Roadway to Economic Development - The Marion Northwest Industrial Connector
Terry Winebrenner

Connectivity and Economic Growth with the Cuyahoga County Towpath Stage 1
Vickie Wildeman

The I-270/US 33 Northwest Freeway Study: Addressing the Mobility Challenges of Economic Growth
Andrew Wolpert

34 Innovations in Design and Construction Facilitating Expansions of Rickenbacker and Port Columbus Modern Technologies with Innovations in Design and Construction are Facilitating Expansions of Rickenbacker and Port Columbus International Airports
David Gotschall

Port Columbus Taxiway Aircraft Bridge
Troy Jessop | Ben Borcherding

Utilization of Roller Compacted Concrete at Rickenbacker Intermodal Terminal
C. Robert Thompson | Edward Carlson

Heartland Clearance Improvement Project
Mike Loehr

35 Geohazards Remediation The Nelsonville Bypass: A Hitchhiker’s Journey through the Galaxy of Mine Hazards
Stan Harris | Eric Kistner, FMSM | Alan Craig

Cantilevered Stub Piers for Slope Remediation Along the Ohio River
Swaminathan Srinivasan | Jess Schroeder | Joseph Smithson

The Slope Shouldn’t Have Failed
Pete Nix

Slope Failure on Lake Erie Shoreline Adjacent to Ashtabula 531: Exploration, Assessment and Temporary Repair
Alexandre Bredikhin |  Allen Stadler

36 Innovative Financing The Case for Managed Lanes
N. Craig Miller

Goldilocks and the 3P’s - Choosing a Financing Mechanism that is “Just Right”
Suzann Rhodes

Case Study: Illinois Open Roads for a Faster Future
Tony Standish

     
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