Minnesota Best Practices for Traffic Sign Maintenance/Management Handbook - Updated

Summary:

Federal Highway Administration mandates that recently went into effect require every agency that owns road signs to develop a sign management plan and ensure that regulatory and warning signs meet retroreflectivity standards from the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices. This project updated MnDOT's Traffic Sign Maintenance/Management Handbook to give local agencies information about how to meet these requirements as well as guidance about removing unnecessary signs, which will lessen sign maintenance costs by reducing the size of the sign inventory.

Final Deliverables:

• Minnesota Best Practices for Traffic Sign Maintenance/Management Handbook - Updated (Manual #2014RIC20)
• Updated Guide Helps Agencies MeetFHWA Sign Maintenance Requirements (Research Summary)

Related Materials:

• Sign Maintenance and Management for Local Agencies Online Distance Learning Course  (Other)
• How better sign management could save Minnesota millions  (Blog Post)
• The 411 on Sign Management  (Blog Post)
• Traffic Sign Inspection Sheet Sample 2  (Other)
• Traffic Sign Inspection Sheet Sample 1  (Other)
• Related Research: Traffic Sign Life Expectancy  (Other)
• What's the life of a sign?  (Blog Post)
• Sign Life Expectancy Research Project  (Video/Webinar)

Related Research:

• Sign Retroreflectivity: A Minnesota Toolkit
• Traffic Sign Life Expectancy

Project Personnel:

Principal Investigator:  Howard Preston

Technical Liaison:  Mark Vizecky

Project Coordinator:  Shirlee Sherkow

Panel Members: 
Brent Roshell - Anderson Passe
Heather Lott - Traffic, Safety & Technology
Jeff Holstein - City of Brooklyn Park
Joe Gustafson - Washington County Public Works - Engineer
Kristi Sebastian - FHWA - Minnesota Division Office
Kyle Hartnett - MN Township Association
Lon Aune - Marshall County Highway Dept
Renae Kuehl - SRF Consulting Group, Inc.
Rich Sanders - Polk County
Susan Porter - Traffic, Safety & Technology
Tim Plath - City of Eagan - Engineer
Victor Lund - St. Louis County Public Works - Engineer