Resources
- Minnesota Guidestar
- Minnesota Department of Public Safety - Traffic Safety
- Regional Transportation Management Center
- Work Zone Safety - Construction Office
- Toward Zero Deaths
TEO committees
Executive Committee
The committee serves as TEO’s link to the ADE Advisory Committee, Operations Advisory Committee, AOD Executive Committee, and Technical Services and Operations divisions’ staff. The committee’s responsibilities include:
- Reviewing each standing committee, ad hoc committee or sub-committee
- Approving scientific equipment requests for traffic engineering uses and
- Speaking for the organization and serving as the principal contact for other people or groups
TEO nine standing committees
- Signals
- Lighting
- Signing
- Pavement Marking
- Temporary Traffic Control
- Safety
- Education/Training
- (ITS) Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Ad Hoc
Responsibilities
- Reviewing, evaluating and reporting matters referred by the Executive Committee
- Identifying issues and providing recommendations to the Executive Committee
- Providing participants to other Mn/DOT committees or task forces when requested by the Executive Committee and
- Assisting other standing committees when issues overlap.
Ad Hoc Committees will be established by the Executive Committee or Standing Committees on an as needed basis.
Purpose
Mn/DOT created its Traffic Engineering Organization to address future challenges in a more effective way than relying solely on informal discussions by representatives from the Central Office and the districts.
The TEO’s formation enables members to stay current with changes in the field and to establish the most critical traffic engineering priorities.
Priorities
- Maximizing the use of existing corridors for increasing traffic volumes
- Staying innovative in an era of growing standardization
- Taking the initiative on traffic engineering-related issues affecting Mn/DOT
The TEO’s active pursuit of the following goals will improve cooperation within Mn/DOT and with other agencies to provide better services to the public. They include:
- Providing leadership and promoting uniformity in traffic engineering practices and policies within the department
- Cooperating to address traffic engineering issues that affect the districts
- Obtaining information and exchanging ideas with other traffic engineers, Mn/DOT staff, other agencies and industry groups to increase awareness of issues affecting the department
- Recommending solutions to traffic problems on an agency-wide basis
- Staying abreast of new technology and promoting ways to put it into everyday use
- Providing leadership to create and deliver continuing education classes for traffic engineering professionals
- Maintaining relationships with district staff and helping them resolve problems
TEO membership
- Director of the Office of Traffic and Safety Operations
- OTSO assistant office directors and functional area engineers
- District traffic engineers
- Traffic services engineer, Office of Maintenance
- Work zone safety coordinator, Construction and Innovative Contracting
- Traffic geometrics engineer, Technical Support and
- Safety and traffic operations engineer, FHWA
In addition, other staff members may be invited to participate in TEO meetings. [See the TEO Organizational chart for organization’s structure. More details regarding the organization's responsibilities and structure can be found in the Mn/DOT Traffic Engineering Manual (Chapter 1).]