MDOT ACTT WORKSHOP
UTILITIES/ RAILROADCOORDINATION
Final Presentation
Utilities/Railroad CoordinationTeam MembersMarion Leaphart, Utility Director, Coleman-Snow
Consultants, (Retired Utilities Manager, SC DOT) Veena Jasuja, MDOT, Detroit TSCNick Lefke, MDOT, Lansing, Real EstateBill Stonebrook, MDOT, Lansing, DesignSteve Rapp, MDOT, Lansing, DesignFacilitator:Anu Taneja, MDOT, Lansing, Contract ServicesNotes:Lynn Venturino, MDOT, Lansing, Design Support
Utilities
Designate a full time MDOT utilities coordinator
• Oversee all aspects of utility coordination, communication, and cooperation during design and construction
• Act as “go to” person for MDOT, utilities, and vendors
Utilize Subsurface Utility Engineering (SUE)
• Have SUE provider available during design and construction
• Update current SUE data
• Utilize SUE deliverables effectively with stakeholders
• Expedites conflict resolution
Identify and resolve municipal utility issues
• Early and often involvement of municipal utilities
• Early identification of potential “show stoppers”
• Identify all relocation and proposed new work
• Coordination with stakeholders
Identify and resolve private/public utility issues• Early and often involvement of
private/public utilities• Early identification of potential
“show stoppers” • Identify all relocation and
proposed new work• Identify reimbursable relocations• Advanced utility relocations• Coordination with stakeholders
Participate in preliminary engineering costs for private/public utilities
• Provides incentive to private/public utilities to cooperate in a timely manner
• Increases cooperation during design phase
Railroads
Form Steering Committee of officials from MDOT
and Railroads (RR)
• Authority to make high level decisions
• Expedite RR decision making (i.e. trackage rights, union work rules, etc.)
Form a Design Engineering Committee
• Early and often involvement of railroads
• Early identification of design constraints
• Early identification of potential “show stoppers”
Provide adequate time for RR coordination in the
MDOT process
• Two year minimum coordination time
• Coordination time begins from submittal of preliminary plans from MDOT to RR
Contract with qualified vendor to perform RR
coordination • Vendor must be
knowledgeable in RR operations
• Effective in obtaining RR approvals
• Involve MDOT RR experts in vendor selection process
Coordinate at-grade crossings with service roads
Diagnostic Team Review (DTR) meeting should take place well in advance of construction, if required
Maintenance of RR traffic
• Early and often involvement of RR
• Construct temporary runaround “shoo-fly” tracks
• Part width bridge construction• Roll-in/lift-in superstructure • Build new permanent bridges
parallel to existing RR• Trackage rights agreements
between RR during construction
Possible elimination of two RR structures over I-75
• RR approval required
Questions