Videos
Award-Winning Work Zone Traffic Control Videos

Drop-Offs instructs highway workers on the proper way to ensure worker and motorist safety in areas where there is a significant difference in the level of the pavement surface and the level of the road work surface.
Diversions trains personnel on the proper procedures to use when diverting traffic around a work zone to ensure maximum safety.
Signs of Work demonstrates the proper use and placement of signs indicating highway construction activity.
Lane Closures shows how to properly and safely mark and close lanes of traffic in work zones.
Pavement Markings includes instructions for workers that are helpful in making good decisions about the placement of highway pavement markings, which can often change during construction.
For field personnel in roadway construction zones; information and instruction on specific topics to improve roadway work zone traffic control schemes. Each video about 15 minutes. ~J. L. Gattis
Professor has also released a sixth video called Driving in Orange. It is intended to inform the general public on safe driving practices in work zones.
Educational/Recruitment Videos
John J. Schemmel and Kevin D. Hall MBTC 9009 (1998)
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--"Check It Out" (gr. K-3)
--"Make It Happen" (gr. 4-8)
--"Back to the Future, Please" (gr. 9-12)
For primary and secondary students; civil and transportation engineering as a profession. Three age-appropriate segments on one videotape; each segment 6-8 minutes
For more information contact:
Dana Ledbetter, dledbett@uark.edu
Communication Director
4190 Bell Engineering Center
University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
tel (479) 575-6026
fax (479) 575-7168
Released April 2009: MBTC Spring 2009 Newsletter
Released February 2009: Identification and Analysis of High Crash Segments on Interstate, US, and State Highway Systems of Arkansas
Released December 2008: MBTC Fall 2008 Newsletter
MBTC 2094/3003, Acceleration Lane Design for Higher Truck Volumes
Released September 2008: MBTC 2056, Applicability of Microelectronic and Mechanical Systems (MEMS) for Transportation Infrastructure Management
Released August 2008: MBTC Annual Report
MBTC 2075, Non-Nuclear Methods for HMA Density Measurements
MBTC 2066, Surface Friction Measurements of Fine-Graded Asphalt Mixtures
MBTC 2089, Development of a Soft Ground Arrestor System
MBTC 2087, A Model to Design a National High-Speed Network for Freight Distribution
MBTC Announces Staff Changes
Heather Nachtmann has been appointed as the new director for the Mack-Blackwell Rural Transportation Center. More > >


