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Launch of Redesigned CountingCars.com
We’ve spent about four months on the redesign of CountingCars.com. I think (hope) it’s a significant upgrade. We also added mobile responsiveness so the site looks great on your phone or tablet too....
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Innovative Billboard Advertising Construction Updates
MnDOT is upgrading Highway 100 a block from our office this summer. The biggest AAA office in Minnesota also happens to be nearby. As a nice public service, AAA put up the billboard below. My wife...
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Response to “St. Louis Park says MnDOT is ignoring huge traffic headaches”
MnDOT is widening Highway 100 and replacing several bridges in St. Louis Park near my house and our office. They closed the Minnetonka Boulevard interchange and have removed the whole bridge. This...
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Introducing Spack’s Traffic Industry Research Briefs
Over to the right on the blog you’ll notice our new giveaway is a series of Research Briefs. We’ll send out a new brief to subscribers of the blog about every 3-5 weeks. These briefs will be 2-page...
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Learn More about Mike Spack – U of MN Interview
Staff from the University of Minnesota’s College of Science and Engineering interviewed me a couple of months ago for an alumni profile piece. It was a little strange talking about myself, but Sally...
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Top 6 Ways to Pick Apart a Traffic Study
Guest Post by Bryant Ficek, PE, PTOE, Vice-President at Spack Consulting Most, and should be all, traffic engineers will readily admit our standard process for preparing Traffic Impact Studies has...
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Transportation Insider Paniati Named new ITE Executive Director
FHWA Executive Director Jeff Paniati named New Executive Director of the Institute of Transportation Engineers ITE President John Kennedy just announced Jeff Paniati has been named the new Executive...
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Collaboration, not Competition (Pioneering as a Sub-Consultant)
Guest Post by Bryant Ficek, PE, PTOE – Vice-President at Spack Consulting Like most consultants, we complete a lot of projects from start to finish. One hidden aspect we offer is being a...
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Operation Sign Harvest
Mark Ray, the public works director/city engineer for the city of Crystal, MN, told me about this fantastic program he developed. Officially the city council approved the “Traffic Sign Liability...
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New Minnesota Signal Timing Law
Guest Post by Bryant Ficek, PE, PTOE & Vice-President of Spack Consutling As part of the Transportation Bill signed into law last week in Minnesota, the text contained language regarding “Traffic...
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Haystack App Tries to “Sell” Public Parking – Shut Down by City of Boston
Haystack was a start-up app that connected people looking for an on-street parking spot with people leaving their parking spot. Once Vehicle A took over the spot from Vehicle B, Vehicle A paid...
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Traffic Impact Study Improvements: Part 1 – Traffic Counts
Guest Post by Bryant Ficek, PE, PTOE, Vice-President at Spack Consulting Earlier this year, I detailed how our standard process for a Traffic Impact Study has several points of assumptions at best or...
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5 Tips to Prepare Traffic Study Proposals Like a Pro
Best Practices for Creating Traffic Study Proposals Recently I received an email from a Mike on Traffic reader who owns a traffic engineering firm. He shared his company’s practices on how they price...
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Remembering the 2007 Bridge Collapse in Minnesota
A Community Pulls Together to in Face of I 35W Bridge Tragedy Guest Post by Bryant Ficek, PE, PTOE, Vice-President at Spack Consulting On August 1, 2007, the previously unthinkable happened and the...
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Traffic Impact Study Improvements: Part 2 – Would Multiple Results Help Us?
Guest Post by Bryant Ficek, PE, PTOE, Vice-President at Spack Consulting Earlier this year, I detailed how our standard process for a Traffic Impact Study has several points of assumptions at best or...
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7 Parts of an Effective School Traffic Safety Plan
Keeping Students Safe Through Planful Engineering Most schools have a well developed safety plan for dealing with emergencies. They even have regular fire, tornado/hurricane, and lockdown drills so...
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New Life for Old Street Signs
Historical Society Sells Decommissioned Street Signs for a Fundraiser Photo courtesy of the St. Louis Park Historical Society. Lucille is a close family friend who downsized from her home on Mackey...
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Should We Preempt Traffic Signals in Bad Weather?
Jon Freeman posted the following (interesting) idea on the ITE Community Forum that got a lot of traction: Should we preempt a traffic signal for a pedestrian in bad weather to get them the walk...
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How to Get the Most Out of Congested Freeways
Active Traffic Management System Strategies to Improve Traffic Flow Randy McCourt from DKS Associates gave an interesting talk about Active Traffic Management Systems (Jargon Alert: ATMS) at the 2015...
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A List of our Top 3 Favorite Crazy Traffic Videos We’ve all complained about traffic. Congested freeways and road construction can be maddening. But truthfully, most of the traffic we experience...
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