Every Day Counts

Every Day Counts (EDC) is a national transportation initiative designed to identify and deploy innovation aimed at shortening project delivery, enhancing the safety of our roadways, and protecting the environment.

These goals are worth pursuing for their own sake. But in challenging times, it's imperative we pursue better, faster, and smarter ways of doing business.

EDC is designed to focus on a finite set of initiatives. Teams from the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) will work with our state, local, and industry partners to deploy the initiatives and will develop performance measures to gauge their success.

http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/everydaycounts/

The next round of EDC activities will be presented via national webinars (called Virtual Summits) in the first 2 weeks of April. To learn more about how Every Day Counts, please sign up for the Virtual Summit listed below:

Thursday, April 04, 2013
8:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Virtual Summit - OPERATIONS
EDC SHRP2 TRAFFIC INCIDENT MANAGEMENT
National Traffic Incident Management Responder Training

Traffic incidents, including crashes, disabled vehicles and debris on the road create unsafe driving conditions. They put motorist and responder lives at risk and account for approximately 25 percent of all traffic delays. For each minute that a freeway travel lane is blocked during peak use, an estimated 4 minutes of delay result after the incident is cleared. This estimate accounts for 4.2 billion hours per year in delays and more than 2.8 billion gallons of gasoline wasted every year while vehicles are stuck in incident-related traffic. This initiative offers the first national, multi-disciplinary traffic incident management (TIM) process and training program. The unique training for first responders promotes a shared understanding of the requirements for safe, quick clearance at traffic incident scenes; prompt, reliable and open communications; and motorist and responder safeguards.


Target Audience: Transportation, public safety (fire, rescue, emergency medical service [EMS]), law enforcement) and emergency management communities

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THREE LOCATIONS:
  1. Baton Rouge TTEC 175
    4099 Gourrier Avenue * Baton Rouge, LA 70808

  2. New Orleans - RTMC Training Room
    10 Veterans Memorial Blvd. * Metairie, LA 70001

  3. Alexandria - DOTD District Training Room
    3300 MacArthur Drive * Alexandria, LA 71301
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Baton Rouge - TTEC 175
New Orleans - RTMC Training Room
Alexandria - DOTD District Training Room
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