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Share ideas and learn from other agency members at No Boundaries’ first virtual peer exchange of 2021!

Offering two-hour sessions over two days, the event provides opportunities for discussion and discovery on a variety of timely issues in the field of transportation maintenance.

Thursday, February 18 – Join us for a look at Front Range Community College’s Highway Maintenance Degree Program, a first-of-its-kind, two-year degree program in Colorado. This will include a Q&A session with a few of the program’s graduates. The first day will continue with an interactive roundtable discussion of innovations that No Boundaries members are using to deliver maintenance services during COVID-19.

Tuesday, March 2 – We will reconvene for our always-popular Innovation Show-and-Tell session, followed by a quick-fire discussion on automated mowing. Finally, we’ll learn the results of a few recent informal surveys conducted by No Boundaries members that others can apply to their work in their home states.

Members can participate in all or part of the event, and are encouraged to invite their agency colleagues to attend as well!

Click here to view the full agenda, and please contact Brian Hirt at brian.hirt@ctcandassociates.com if you require a meeting invitation.

Image source: Colorado Department of Transportation.

No Boundaries has prepared a listing of technical sessions and papers related to maintenance for the virtual 2021 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting. The compendium includes each presentation’s title, authors, identification number, and a link to find the work on TRB’s Online Program portal. Note: TRB requires a login to access full papers. If you are having trouble accessing the papers, check with your DOT or other transportation library.

Download the compendium: 2021 TRB Annual Meeting: Technical Sessions and Papers Related to Maintenance.

After a hiatus while leadership of the pooled fund changed hands, No Boundaries is back! With new lead state Colorado DOT and some 20 member state agencies, No Boundaries is busy in fall 2020 kicking off new technology transfer and innovation sharing activities. Please check back on this website for details, and feel free to contact us for more information.

Colorado DOT hosted No Boundaries’ spring 2019 meeting in Denver on May 14-16. No Boundaries members and invited guests discussed road maintenance innovations and shared best practices.

Presentations and roundtable discussions addressed asset management data collection; the role of maintenance in emergency management; public service requests; state and national pollinator programs; training and apprenticeship programs; employee recruitment and engagement; and process improvement.

Meeting photos and presentations are online.