The conference will bring together transportation planners, economic development professionals, local officials, state DOT staff and stakeholders from rural and small metropolitan areas across the nation for three days of learning and networking with peers.

Click the link below to view a video of the remarks by the President during the opening of the Tribal Nations Conference.

Remarks by the President During the Opening of the Tribal Nations Conference & Interactive Discussion with Tribal Leaders can be found online by visiting the White House website at:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-during-opening-tribal-nations-conference-interactive-discussion-w

This is a powerful reminder of how dangerous it is to talk or text while driving. The video is about 15 minutes long, but it could save your life or the lives of those you love.

Click here to watch the video.

2010 TRB Environmental Meeting will be June 6-10. See the flyer for more information: http://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/conf/2010/EnvironmentEnergySummit.pdf

9th Annual Road Salt Symposium: Keeping Our Winter Roads Safe
While Protecting Our Waters
Date: February 3, 2010
Time: 8:30am-3:00pm
Crowne Plaza Minneapolis North
Brooklyn Center, MN

2009 National ITA Meeting
"Listening to the Nations"
December 9-11, 2009
Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino
(800) 634-3454 / Local : 702-386-8262
Las Vegas, Nevada
www.goldennugget.com

Registration Form

Conference Flyer

The Tribal Transportation Planner's Conference will be held in conjunction with the ITA meeting. December 8-11, 2009 at the Tropicana Hotel, Las Vegas, NV. Tribal Transportation Planners Conference Agenda

Check out the MTU Website: http://www.doe.mtu.edu/international/2009/powwow/index.html to view the pictures and recap of the 2009 Annual Powwow.

National Native American Heritage Month, 2009 Proclamation

Tribal & Local RoadSoft & Paser Webinar

RoadSoft — Roadway Asset Management System &
PASER Pavement Condition Rating System:
Asset Management that Makes Sense

Tuesday, December 15th - 11:00 am EDT

Ensuring transportation projects run smoothly requires collaboration among professionals from a range of disciplines including design, construction, operations, environmental protection, historic preservation, project planning, and project management.

click here to view the flyer for this training.

Slope Maintenance and Slide Restoration Webinar
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/348707081

Forklift Operation and Safety Training can be scheduled for your agency.

We Offer Three Types of Forklift Training

• Forklift in the Food Division - One day training dealing with operating a forklift around food. $125 per person.


• Forklift in the Commercial and Industrial Class - Three day training focuses on the use of various lifting equipment around the offices, casino, or other tribal parking lots and buildings. $350 per person.


• Forklift in the Heavy Equipment Division for Construction - Three day training focuses on the use of various heavy lifting equipment for construction purposes including slide booms, all-terrain forklifts, loaders, and skid-steer type equipment. $350 per person.

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Click Here to request this training at your agency.

Heavy Equipment Operation and Safety Training can be scheduled for your agency.

Some of the many topics covered in this three day workshop include:

• Operate a bulldozer, backhoe, front end loader, dump truck, and tractor with equipment trailer


• Practice safety procedures including use of personal safety equipment and safety inspection of equipment


• Care and routine maintenance of each type of heavy equipment


• Use a laser transit


• How to read Grade stakes on cut and fill

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Click Here to request this training at your agency.

Your friendly FHWA Natural Environment Team needs your input on our new approach to funding research! STEP is the only source of funds to conduct all FHWA research on planning and environmental issues. Stakeholder input will take priority. This is your opportunity.

click here to view the flyer soliciting information.

After viewing the flyer, access the website to submit your input at:
http://knowledge.fhwa.dot.gov/cops/step.nsf/Feedback?OpenForm&Issue=6R9KQXRRRR

A new website, sponsored by the University of Minnesota, and the Center of Excellence in Rural Safety, has been launched. The site allows users to view graphical data and maps showing "hotspots" and other roadway crash statistical data.

Click Here to visit the website.

The ESRI software products company and the Department of Interior/Bureau of Indian Affairs
(BIA) have teamed up to provide the ArcGIS suite for free to Federally recognized tribal agencies.

New roads on Indian reservations are needed for a variety of reasons -- to serve new businesses, link remote villages to county and state highway systems, provide access to cultural activities and to replace unwieldy rutted and gravel-paved tracks, to name a few. Moreover, traffic accidents on reservation roads occur at roughly twice the national per-capita rate of accidents on state highways and county roads.

The Lummi Nation in partnership with the BIA Northwest Region has developed a process in the form of a board game to educate to its players about the environment in which transportation is planned, financed and developed.

Click Here to visit the site and request a copy of the game.

Help Develop a Guidebook for "Successful Communication, Cooperation & Coordination Strategies between Transportation Agencies & Tribal Communities. You can participate or be interviewed by the Research team by submitting the Participant Contact Form or by contacting Dr. Giovanni Ciro Migliaccio, Asst. Prof., Univ. of New Mexico at gcm@unm.edu or (505) 277-1948.

During the course of this project, the research team will be performing interviews with state, federal and tribal transportation professionals to gain insight in developing the guidebook. Members and other affiliated individuals of local TTAP's are invited to participate in the interview process.

Read more about the project/research/study (NCHRP 08-65)here:

[Click to open link]

To participate in the study, please read through the following:
[Click to open link] (pdf)

FHWA has established a website with information on the Economic Recovery. It currently has some steps that can be taken to expedite projects and a list of Q&A's from State and local agencies. As more specifics on the plan become available they will be posted here.


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3M Traffic Safety Systems is launching the 3M Sign Grant Program, a new program designed to significantly reduce road sign replacement costs to local and state governments to meet the latest federal retroreflectivity standards set by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) to improve traffic safety. The 3M Sign Grant Program begins January 5, 2009 and will run through November 30, 2009. See the website for more information: www.3MSignGrants.com [Click to open link]

"The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) developed this report to assist State Highway Safety Offices (SHSOs) in their outreach to multicultural groups at the state and local level."

This publication can be found in our online library.

Seat belt use in 2009 stood at 84 percent, a gain from 83 percent use in 2008. This result is from the National Occupant Protection Use Survey (NOPUS) which is the only survey that provides nationwide probability-based observed data on seat belt use in the United States. The NOPUS is conducted annually by the National Center for Statistics and Analysis of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

click here to view the pdf

This publication is also available in our electronic library.

Two mobile breath alcohol testing vehicles intended to help reduce the number of alcohol-related fatalities on tribal lands are headed for Montana. Officials say the BAT-mobiles that cost $300,000 each will be delivered to the Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Justice Services in Billings in early November.

click here to view the full article from Missoulian.com

CTAA: Tribal Transit Powerpoint Presentation
Accessing Federal Transit Funding to Develop Your Transit System
http://www.ctaa.org/webmodules/webarticles/articlefiles/Ag12Tribal_Transit_Funding.pdf

The new BIA website is www.IndianAffairs.gov

To view the article from Government Computer News: http://gcn.com/articles/2009/10/22/bia-launches-new-web-site.aspx

click here to view the Tribal Safety Summit Flyer: Sharing Solutions, A community Approach to Tribal Traffic Safety.

Two reports on Intersection Safety have been published. The first is Intersection Safety Needs Identification Report, and the second is the Report on the National Agenda for Intersection Safety. For a brief introduction to these reports, click on "more information".

The NHTSA website for State Traffic Safety Information For Year 2008" is now available. The link to this page can also be found on our links page.

Safety Compass: Highway Safety Solutions for Saving Lives, Fall 2009 Volume 3 Issue 2

The Safety Edge Bruchure

The new TRB Committee website is now up and running! http://sites.google.com/site/trbcommitteeabe80

The purpose of this notice is to announce the proposed FY 2010 STEP implementation strategy in anticipation that the FHWA is likely to receive resources for national research on issues related to environment and planning as a part of future transportation legislation and to request suggested lines of research for FY 2010 via the STEP Web site at: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/hep/step/index.htm. Stakeholder feedback from the STEP Web site provides useful research ideas and helps to prevent redundant areas of research, saving valuable research funds.

The deadline for submission is December 3, 2009

The current Roadway Safety Foundation E-Reporter online newsletter is available online at:
http://newsmanager.commpartners.com/rsf/issues/2009-08-14.html

The Federal Highway Administration has a comprehensive Road Safety Audit website available.

The aim of an RSA is to answer the following questions:

• What elements of the road may present a safety concern: to what extent, to which road users, and under what circumstances?


• What opportunities exist to eliminate or mitigate identified safety concerns?

Click Here to visit the site.

Click Here for the latest RSA newsletter.