Business View Civil and Municipal | February 2021

27 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL FEBRUARY 2021 FLOR IDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTAT ION ( FDOT ) park. And we developed a series of standards and design criteria for local governments and we’ve been partnering with them to push that out, so they can do the same initiative at their crossings. We’ve also worked with our local partners in helping them figure out how to pay for this, such as highway safety funds they could apply for. It was a very proactive stance on how we improve safety throughout the state. “A second focus is on using technology for safety countermeasures related to wrong way driving on turnpikes and interstates. That has been very successful. We started implementing this initiative at locations where we had incidents – studying what had occurred and using the data to find commonalities. Our next level of implementation is to put those countermeasures in at locations that have similar situations that could set them up for incidents. For example, it primarily occurs at diamond interchanges rather than loop ramps or flyover ramps.”