Browsing by Subject "State departments of transportation"

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    CEO Leadership Forum for State Departments of Transportation: A Summary Report
    (Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, 2003-05) Center for Transportation Studies
    This report summarizes the AASHTO 2003 CEO Leadership Forum, hosted by the Center for Transportation Studies on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis. The second document in this record is a companion to the summary report.
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    CEO Leadership Forum: Advancing Practice in State DOTs from Good to Great
    (Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, 2006-09) Center for Transportation Studies
    This report summarizes the 2006 CEO Leadership Forum, held September 24-26, 2006, on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis. Transportation leaders from across the nation explored three critical issues facing our state transportation organizations: roles and partnerships, customers and stakeholders, and funding and finance.
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    CEO Leadership Forum: Leading the 21st Century DOT
    (Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, 2013-04) Center for Transportation Studies
    This report summarizes the 2013 CEO Leadership Forum for state departments of transportation (DOTs), held April 7-9, 2013 on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis. Transportation leaders from across the nation explored a range of issues and developed action plans to support CEOs and their staffs.
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    CEO Leadership Forum: Performance-Based Management in State DOTs
    (Center for Transportation Studies, University of Minnesota, 2009-04) Center for Transportation Studies
    This report summarizes the 2009 CEO Leadership Forum for state departments of transportation (DOTs), held April 19-21, 2009, on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis. Transportation leaders from across the nation explored the use of performance-based measurement as a way to achieve greater transparency and make efficient use of limited resources.
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    The Health and Transportation Nexus: A Conceptual Framework for Collaborative and Equitable Planning
    (Minnesota Department of Transportation, 2022-05) Fan, Yingling; Phua, Peiyu
    Transportation is a crucial contributor to health. It not only directly shapes the social and physical environments but also determines the type of places where people can live, learn, work, and play in their everyday lives. This project develops a conceptual framework for collaborative and equitable health and transportation planning by extending the social determinants of health framework to include three major pathways through which transportation factors operate on health and equity outcomes. The three major pathways are behavioral health, environmental health, and social exclusion, which are identified via a thorough review of the academic literature and gray resources on health and transportation connections. Of the three pathway mechanisms, social exclusion and environmental health are intrinsically linked to social equity and justice issues. We further review state-level initiatives linking transportation to health and interview six state departments of transportation that are pioneers in advocating and implementing integrated health and transportation planning. The interview results are summarized and discussed in the report. Based on the interviews, we make recommendations for the Minnesota Department of Transportation to help further its efforts on integrated health and transportation planning.
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    Review of Workplace Wellness Program Options to Reduce Musculoskeletal Disorders in Laborious Work
    (Minnesota Department of Transportation Research Services Section, 2011-01) Loushine, Todd William; Trepanier, Myriam; Feyen, Robert
    The primary cause of injury to field workers who perform laborious tasks is over-exertion. Due to changing environmental and situational conditions for field workers, it is difficult to apply engineering controls to reduce exposure to over-exertion or strain that contributes to musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). Workplace health promotion and wellness programs are meant to provide employees with opportunities to learn about lifestyle changes to improve their overall health and wellness status. The goal of this project was to create a reference guide for the Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) that addresses the different components of a workplace health and wellness promotion program. Results indicate that to be successful, health promotion and wellness should be considered a process instead of a program or initiative. First, management commitment and leadership must be established along with involvement of key stakeholders (such as healthcare providers, workers compensation, etc.). Second, a joint management-worker committee needs to be formed to define how health promotion and wellness can be aligned with organizational goals, policies, and measures, and to assess the needs of workers. The committee needs guidance from a health promotion and wellness expert. Before implementation, baseline measures of health conditions, worker perceptions, and injury/illness and workers compensation data need to be established and periodically monitored to ensure progress. Establishing health promotion and wellness into the culture of the organization, careful planning by a well-represented committee, and evaluation on the performance of the program using a variety of measures, are keys to success.