"TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Report 726: A Guidebook for Nighttime Construction: Impacts on Safety, Quality, and Productivity provides suggested guidance on the conduct of nighttime highway construction and maintenance operations. These guidelines are based on best practices and strategies for nighttime operations that relate to the personnel and traveling public safety and the quality of the as-built facility. The guide also addresses work-zone risk analysis planning and implementation, construction nuisances to both neighbors and workers, and work-zone illumination methods."--Publisher's description.
... JR., Secretary of Transportation, Florida DOT MICHAEL W. BEHRENS, Executive Director, Texas DOT JACK E. BUFFINGTON, ... Georgia Regional Transportation Agency JOHN M. SAMUELS, Senior Vice President-Operations Planning & Support, ...
BACKGROUND Recently many states have shifted their priority from building new facilities to maintaining and improving ... As a result, more construction and rehabilitation work is being performed at night when traffic flow is minimal.