FHWA Work Zone Project Coordination Webinar

slide 1: Work Zone Project Coordination – Michigan's I-94 Corridor and the Great Lakes Megaregion

Bobbi Welke, Southwest Region Engineer
Michigan Department of Transportation

Peter Rafferty, ITS Program Manager
Wisconsin TOPS Lab, University of Wisconsin-Madison

September 24, 2012

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slide 2: Overview

Michigan's I-94 Corridor
- GLRTOC
- Partners & Mission
- Geographic Area
- Work Zone Coordination

slide 3: MDOT Structure/I-94 Corridor

Map depicts the I-94 corridor from Caloma, Michigan, through MacComb-St. Clair, Michigan.

slide 4: 2011 Predicted Performance

slide 5: Average Delay per Vehicle

Graph shows average delay for 2011 for the I-94 corridor broken out by segment and by month. Segment 2 (I-69 to I-75) shows the greatest delay for all months except March and April, in which Setment 1 (Indiana to I-69) carries the greatest delay.

slide 6: Main Posted Speed Limits 2011

Graph shows the percentage of traffic operating at posted speeds by week from April through November for each municipality in the region.

slide 7: Megaregions

Heat map of the United States showing projected metro area population projections for 2050.

Improve cross-regional transportation operations in support of regional economic competitiveness and improved quality of life.

slide 9:

Map of the Great Lakes region from Minneapolis, MN in the west, Lake Superior in the north, Toronto in the East, and Chicago and Detroit in the South.

slide 10: GLRTOC Strategies

Three Strategic Focus Areas
- Efficient freight operations
- Reliable mobility
- TIM / ETO

slide 11: Annual Work Zone Preview

LMIGA has been doing this for years for the Chicago region
Among the first efforts of GLRTOC
Held first week of February in Chicago

Screenshot of a table depicting the highway 401 workzone review for 2011. Table data includes map ID, route, location, direction, distance, dates, type, and impact.