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Bulletins

Handbooks

  • Document Handbook: Flagger’s Handbook (PubHan01)

    Your safety, the safety of your co-workers, and the safety of the public is critical and depends on your alertness and your ability to control traffic.

    The information in this manual is intended to illustrate the principles of proper flagging, but it does not establish standards or warrants. Part 6 of the MUTCD and the Wisconsin MUTCD Supplement contain the standards for proper flagging. These standards are highlighted in yellow in the text of this handbook.

    Copyright 2011

  • Handbook: Inspector’s Job Guide and Highway Maintenance Tables (PubHan02)

    Copyright 2004

  • Document Handbook: Sign Retroreflectivity Guidebook (PubHan04)

    This document was developed to assist small-sized agencies
    without traffic engineering staff in meeting the new Federal
    requirements for maintaining traffic sign retroreflectivity on roads
    open to public travel. By considering the needs and capabilities
    of small agencies, this document provides the necessary
    information needed to be in compliance with the new traffic sign
    retroreflectivity requirements.

  • Document Handbook: Work Zone Guidelines for Construction, Maintenance, and Utility Operations (PubHan03)

    This handbook presents information and guidelines for temporary traffic control, including examples of typical traffic control applications. It applies to construction, maintenance, and utility work zones on local roads and streets in Wisconsin. This information is intended to illustrate the principles of proper temporary traffic control, but it does not establish standards or warrants. Part 6 of the MUTCD and the Wisconsin MUTCD (QR Code) contain the standards for temporary traffic control. Wisconsin Department of Transportation has additional requirements on the State Highway System for flagging procedures and work zone setups that include flaggers. See the Wisconsin Department of Transportation “Wisconsin Flagging Handbook (2020 Version)” for State Highway System specific requirements.

    Copyright 2019

PASER Manuals

  • Document PASER Manual: Asphalt (PubPas01)

    This manual is intended to assist local officials in understanding and rating the surface condition of asphalt pavement. It describes types of defects and provides a simple system to visually rate pavement condition. The rating procedure can be used as condition data for the Wisconsin DOT local road inventory and as part of a computerized pavement management system like PASERWARE.

    The PASER system described here and in other T.I.C. publications is based in part on a roadway management system originally developed by Phil Scherer, transportation planner, Northwest Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission.

    Copyright 2002, revised 2013

  • Document PASER Manual: Brick and Block (PubPas02)

    Assessing street conditions is essential to good planning and efficient use of local street funds. The PASER pavement surface evaluation and rating procedure, described here and in other PASER Manuals, has proven effective in improving decision making and using street repair and improvement funds efficiently.

    Copyright 2001, reprint 2013, 2015

  • Document PASER Manual: Concrete (PubPas03)

    This manual is intended to assist local officials in understanding and rating the surface condition of concrete pavements. It describes types and causes of distress and provides a simple system to visually rate pavement condition. The rating procedure can be used as condition data for the Wisconsin DOT local road inventory and as part of a computerized pavement management system like PASERWARE.
    Copyright 1989, 2002; reprint 2009, 2015

  • Document PASER Manual: Gravel (PubPAS04)

    This manual is intended to assist local officials in understanding and rating the surface condition of gravel roads. It describes types and causes of distress and provides a simple system to visually rate the road segment’s condition. The rating procedure can be used as condition data for the Wisconsin DOT local road inventory and as part of a computerized pavement management system like PASERWARE.

    Copyright 1989, 2002; reprint 2015

  • Document PASER Manual: Sealcoat (PubPas05)

    This manual is designed to provide background information to local officials on gravel roads with a sealcoat surface. It describes conditions and causes of distress and provides a simple procedure to rate pavement condition. The rating procedure can be used as condition data for the Wisconsin DOT local road inventory and as part of a pavement management system like PASERWARE.

    Copyright 2001; reprint 2013

  • Document PASER Manual: Unimproved Roads (PubPas06)

    This manual is designed to provide background information to local officials on roads with earthen or unimproved surfaces. It describes conditions and distress common for these types of roads. The manual also provides a simple procedure to rate road surface conditions. The rating procedure can be used as condition data for the Wisconsin DOT local road inventory. It may also be helpful in establishing priorities forfuture road improvements.

    Copyright 2001

Other Publications

  • Document Culvert Assessment and Decision-making Procedures Manual For Federal Lands Highway (PubOth06)

    The Office of Federal Lands Highway (FLH) is part of the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), and works in cooperation with federal land management agencies to plan, design, construct and rehabilitate highways and bridges on federally owned lands. In support of this mission, FLH has developed these project-level guidelines for assessing the condition and performance of existing roadway culverts, and when necessary, selecting corrective actions to be taken for any deficiencies found as part of specific project development activities. This procedures manual is intended to aid users in implementing a fully integrated culvert assessment and decision-making tool that provides guidance for selecting replacement or rehabilitation alternatives.

    Copyright 2010

  • Document Drainage Manual (PubOth01)

    This manual is designed to help local officials evaluate drainage conditions along rural and urban roadways. It is part of the PASERWARE pavement management system. This manual can also be used to plan for road maintenance and improvements.

    Copyright 2000

  • Document Gravel Roads: Construction & Maintenance Guide (PubOth02)

    Good gravel road maintenance or rehabilitation depends on two basic principles: proper use of a motorgrader (or other grading device) and use of good surface gravel. The use of the grader to properly shape the road is obvious to almost everyone, but the quality, volume, and size distribution of gravel needed is not as well understood. It seems that most gravel maintenance or rehabilitation problems are blamed on the grader operator when the actual problem is often material related. This is particularly true when dealing with the problem of corrugation or “washboarding” as it is often called in the field. This problem is often perceived as being caused by the grader, but it is primarily caused by the material itself. This manual provides information on what makes a good gravel road surface.

    Copyright 2000; revised 2015

  • Document Guide for Maintaining Pedestrian Facilities for Enhanced Safety (PubOth07)

    This document provides guidance for maintaining pedestrian facilities with the primary goal of increasing safety and mobility. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) developed the Guide as one of several means of reducing the approximately 4,000 pedestrian fatalities and tens of thousands of pedestrian injuries occurring in the United States annually. This Guide is based on a research report completed as a part of developing the guide. The report is available online and includes a literature review, review of local maintenance programs including discussions with 50 municipalities and state agencies, and an overall assessment of the current practice of pedestrian facility maintenance.

    Copyright 2013

  • Municipal Liability in Wisconsin: Highway Problems (PubOth03)

    Copyright 1999

  • Document SAFER Manual (PubOth04)

    This manual is designed to provide background information and offer an approach for reviewing safety conditions on local roads and streets. It also should help local officials with setting priorities and planning for both immediate action and future improvements. There are no federal or state requirements for the improvement of roadway safety hazards. This manual is not intended to be a standard. The specific examples and suggestions are given only as examples.

    Copyright 1996

  • Document TAPER: How to Use Liquid Anti-Icers (PubOth05)

    A method to track actions and results: Temperature, Application, Product, Event, Results.

    Copyright