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2 American Road & Transportation Builders Association-Transportation Development Foundation

AboutCelebrating its 30th

Anniversary in 2015, the

ARTBA Transportation

Development Foundation

(ARTBA-TDF) promotes,

research, education and

public awareness. Today,

the Foundation’s Board of

Trustees and staff annually

execute a comprehensive,

multi-million dollar

program of work that is

aimed at educating the

public and elected leaders

about the many benefits

of transportation

improvements and the need

to significantly boost those

investments to meet

future U.S. economic and

mobility demands.

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The ARTBA-TDF offers a variety of professional

development, training and safety services for industry

executives and many feature Professional Development

Hours (PDHs). Among them:

Transportation Builder Institute Created by top executives in leading

industry firms, the Transportation

Builder Institute offers customized

academies exclusively for transporta-

tion design, construction and safety

executives:

Professional Development, Education & Training

Offers both substantive theory

and practical application of principles of project

management for transportation construction

professionals. Topics covered: planning, scheduling,

effective client relations, job-site teamwork, safety and

risk management, and ethics.

Teaches managers how to use schedules

to track all aspects of a transportation project—people,

materials, key operational benchmarks and payment

schedules. It also features “hands-on” experience with

the industry’s most widely used scheduling software,

Primavera Project Planner (P6®).

—Ken Nishiyama Atha, regional administrator, OSHA, San Francisco


A new certified course focused on this critical

hazard in the transportation construction industry. Through this program,

participants will receive a certificate and wallet card documenting their

completion of this ARTBA class.

A state-of-the-art, interactive instructional program

containing training modules covering 33 different topics that can be

customized to the needs of the participants. It is the most widely-vetted and

comprehensive roadway construction safety training program in the

industry, and was developed through 15 years of collaboration between

ARTBA and its partners in labor, government and industry.

Based on more than a decade of

government and industry research, this course includes step-by-step

instructions on preventing worker “struck-by” incidents through creation of

“Internal Traffic Control Plans (ITCPs).” It focuses on blind spot recognition,

work zone access/egress, and safe backing procedures.

The

first and most comprehensive program focused on highway construction

activities that are responsible for the majority of work zone fatalities and

serious injuries. The course provides an overview of 11 key construction

work zone-related safety and health topics and is accredited by OSHA.

An interactive session where winners of the ARTBA

Foundation’s “Contractor Safety Awards” share successful ideas, best

practices and management techniques that enabled them to achieve

remarkable safety and productivity records.

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Virtual Conference for Transportation Officials Established in 2012, the “Local Transportation

Management Virtual Conference & Innovation Showcase”

(LōTransTM) featuring “Best Practices in Work Zone Safety,”

is hosted by the ARTBA Foundation and the National Work

Zone Safety Information Clearinghouse. The annual event

uses a virtual meeting platform to deliver to federal, state,

and local transportation officials and industry executives

free educational sessions, information, and access to

products and services from exhibitors.

Dr. J. Don Brock TransOvation Workshop™ Named after the pioneering founder of Astec Industries, a

worldwide company based in Tennessee, TransOvationTM

annually brings together the brightest minds for a two-and-

a-half day interactive workshop that helps transportation

construction executives foster and build innovative thinking

into their professional skill set.

Young Executive Development ProgramEstablished in 1995 and now with more than 550 graduates,

the intensive, multi-day Young Executive Development

Program (YEDP) provides industry “rising stars” with an

in-depth understanding of how the federal transportation

programs are structured and financed, and ARTBA’s role in

shaping policy and regulations. YEDP fellows also become

industry advocates and leaders, with trips to Capitol Hill to

meet with their members of Congress on pending

transportation issues.

—Gary Brown, Granite Construction Company, 2014 YEDP fellow


Local & Tribal Technical Assistance Program

National Work Zone Safety Information ClearinghouseFound at , the Clearinghouse

was established in 1998 and is the world’s largest

information resource on “best practices,” laws, regulations,

public awareness campaigns, products, training and

educational materials. The facility handles 175,000

information requests annually.

Local/Tribal Technical Assistance ProgramsThe Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) and Tribal

Technical Assistance Program (TTAP) are composed of a

network of 58 centers—one in every state, Puerto Rico and

regional centers serving tribal governments. Under a fed-

eral contract, ARTBA-TDF manages the LTAP/TTAP

Clearinghouse operations. The centers enable local

counties, parishes, townships, cities and towns to improve

their roads and bridges by supplying them with a variety of

training programs, new and existing technology updates,

personalized technical assistance and newsletters.

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Awards & Recognition


Scholarship & Awards

Provides up to $5,000 annually in post

high-school financial assistance to the children of high-

way workers killed or permanently disabled on the job.

Inducts visionaries and game-changers

from the public and private sectors who have made

extraordinary contributions to U.S. transportation

development and demonstrated exceptional leadership

over their lifetime.

Honors transportation design and

construction industry excellence in project

environmental protection and mitigation.

Recognizing industry excellence in

community relations and charitable giving.

Globe Award: Category Bridges: First Place: San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge New East Span.

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Pays tribute to a highway

contractor’s corporate safety culture, operational safety

plans and worker training programs.

Honors outstanding

programs aimed at promoting a safer work and driving

environment in roadway construction sites.

Recognizes extraordinary efforts of

individuals, companies and public agencies that have

demonstrated leadership and dedication to innovation

in the transportation construction field as well as the

promotion of women leaders within the industry.

Celebrates “innovative transportation infrastructure-

related products, services, technologies and techniques

that can be documented to provide a high return-on-

investment by: improving safety; saving users and

taxpayers time and/or money; or making our

infrastructure more environmentally sustainable.”

Special EventsTo raise money to support its programs, ARTBA-TDF

hosts special events such as the gala dinners celebrating the

100th anniversary of ARTBA, the 50th Anniversary of the

Interstate Highway System and inductions to the Hall

of Fame.


Economic Reports

Based on unique analysis of data from the

U.S. Departments of Commerce, Treasury and

Transportation.

Explores the economic and job creation

impacts on the national and 50 state economies based

Research & Analysis

on analysis of data from the Department of Commerce

and Census Bureau.

The highly-acclaimed Texas

Transportation Institute’s analysis covers the year-to-

year changes in traffic congestion in major U.S. cities

and assesses its impacts on the economy. The report is

co-sponsored by ARTBA-TDF.

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Board of Trustees

Chairman

President & CEO

Vecellio Group

West Palm Beach, Fla.

CEO

Summit Materials

Denver, Colo.

President & CEO

HNTB Holdings

HNTB Corporation

New York, N.Y.

President

Wright Brothers

Construction

Charleston, Tenn.

President & CEO

Ammann &

Whitney

New York, N.Y.

President

Corman Construction

Annapolis Junction,

Md.

President & CEO

ARTBA

Washington, D.C.

Chairman

Heritage

Construction &

Materials

Indianapolis, Ind.

President

Parsons Construction

Group

Westminster, Colo.

Product Director

Caterpillar Inc.

Peoria, Ill.

Senior Vice

President

Parsons Brinckerhoff

Herndon, Va.

Chairman

G.A. & F.C. Wagman

York, Pa.


Foundation Staff

Contacts

executive director

executive director, safety & education

program manager

1219 28th Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20007

The ARTBA Transportation Development Foundation

(ARTBA-TDF) is classified by the Internal Revenue

Service as a 501(c) 3 organization. Therefore, gifts made

to the Foundation may be tax deductible under applicable

IRS rules and regulations. You should consult with your

attorney or tax advisor as part of any contribution

program. The Foundation’s Federal Tax Identification

Number is 52-6283894. If you are interested in making a

donation, contact ARTBA Executive Director Matt

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