9 videos listed in our library for the category "Tips and New Technology"
Plows of the Future
Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP): 8 minutes
Copyright: 1993
Language(s): English
Format: VHS
Overview of the development, use and benefits of the SHRP plow. It features a design that improves safety, reduces energy costs and improves visibility and handling for the driver.
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Snow and Ice Control: SHRP Innovations
Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP): 13 minutes
Copyright: 1993
Language(s): English
Format: VHS
Products covered in the video include snow fence technology, road weather information system, anti-icing techniques and advancement in snowplows.
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Technical Advancements for Maintenance Workers
U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) - Federal Highway Administration (FHWA): 15 minutes
Copyright: 1990
Language(s): English
Format: VHS
This video looks to the future in terms of materials and methods that will be available to improve pavement maintenance, snow and ice control, and worker safety in the work zone.
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The Idea Store: Edition 4
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (DOT): 10 minutes
Copyright: 1990
Language(s): English
Format: VHS
This series of videos contains a collection of tips and ideas from highway agencies across the country.
Some of the ideas presented include: improved cross drains, methods of reducing snow accumulation on snow plows, methods of applying aggregate to the shoulder adjacent to the pavement, minimizing aggregate loss during blading operations, using discarded tires in erosion control, slope maintenance, and an economical plan for building work zone signs.
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The Idea Store: Edition 5
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (DOT): 11 minutes
Copyright: 1991
Language(s): English
Format: VHS
This series of videos contains a collection of tips and ideas from highway agencies across the country.
This video discusses good reasons for wearing hard hats; emphasizes the need for proper tire inflation; safety, from the standpoint of programs at the management and labor force levels; urges a good signing program to minimize litigation, and presents an "adopt a sign program".
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The Idea Store: Edition 6
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (DOT): 17 minutes
Copyright: 1991
Language(s): English
Format: VHS
This series of videos contains a collection of tips and ideas from highway agencies across the country.
This video discusses: wildflowers, the Adopt-a-Highway program, light cages, fabricated posts, Roads Scholar I & II, signs, Brainstorming Box, and the Safety Packet.
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The Idea Store: Edition 7
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (DOT): 11 minutes
Copyright: 1992
Language(s): English
Format: VHS
This series of videos contains a collection of tips and ideas from highway agencies across the country.
The equipment section covers: airfoil for rear mounts on a sander which keeps lights from being coated with snow; a cylinder wrench; and curved scraper added to loader bucket for curb work. Engineering discusses timber bridges promotion. The communications section shows communication at an association meeting via demonstration, literature, etc.
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The Idea Store: Edition 8
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (DOT): 10 minutes
Copyright: 1993
Language(s): English
Format: VHS
This series of videos contains a collection of tips and ideas from highway agencies across the country.
Keep your "medical alert" information on a decal in your hard hat rather than on a necklace. Montana's program to educate the public on winter road safety. Safety in the maintenance facility with housed fuel trucks. Safety method for one-man installation of wing plow.
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The Idea Store: Edition 9
Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (DOT): 6 minutes
Copyright: 1993
Language(s): English
Format: VHS
This series of videos contains a collection of tips and ideas from highway agencies across the country.
Focuses on how an idea for developing and promoting safe backing using a key tag was conceived.
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