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Most utility facilities are buried in public rights-of-way and are vulnerable to damage during road improvements and construction. Utility companies in southeastern Michigan have begun a joint damage prevention program among utilities, local governmental agencies, state transportation agencies, and construction contractors. To communicate their needs and wants for work-site safety and damage prevention, the utilities must establish a workable communication system that involves obtaining knowledge of future road improvement projects, developing a consistent reciprocal information exchange between utilities and roadway design groups, attending and participating in prebid and preconstruction meetings, providing a 1-number telephone communication system for use in locating underground facilities, and launching a vigorous promotional program among governmental agencies and construction contractors on the theme that damage prevention is everyone's business. The American Public Works Association is promoting national acceptance of 1-number communication systems.

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Transportation Research Record

53rd Annual Meeting of the Highway Research Board

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Communication systems; Loss and damage; Public utilities; Road construction; Safety; Telephone; Work area

Administration and Management; Highways; Safety and Human Factors

TRIS, TRB

Oct 5 1974 12:00AM

• ASSESSMENT OF THE CURRENT STATE OF THE ART OF ACCOMMODATING UTILITIES IN PUBLIC STREET RIGHTS-OF-WAY IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA
• PLANNING THE TELEPHONE HIGHWAYS
• UNCASED PIPELINE CROSSING TRANSPORTATION ARTERIES