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• Access Management A set of techniques to improve safety, reduce traffic congestion and assure safe access to properties adjacent to a roadway.
| • Adopt-A-Highway Established in 1990 to improve the beauty of our highway roadsides with community help | • Adopt-A-Landscape A new program that allows individuals, organizations, or businesses to help maintain sections of roadside within Michigan's state highway system. | • Aesthetic Project Opportunities: Find out more A useful tool for communities interested in improving the visual quality of their environment. | • Courtesy Patrol MDOT's Freeway Courtesy patrol is reliable and ready to assist stranded and distressed drivers in the Tri-County Metro Region.
| • Elderly Mobility Initiatives | • Heritage Routes Emphasizes cooperation among local residents, government officials, landowners and interested groups to preserve unique scenic, historic or recreational highways. | • Intelligent Transportation Systems Promotes advanced technologies, electronics and telecommunications to improve safety and travel times on the multi- modal transportation system. | • Memorial Highways Find memorial highways statewide or within a particular county. | • Noise Abatement Noise Walls, Local Vehicle Noise Enforcement, and Land-Use information. | • Pilot Planting A project in Metro Detroit using turf alternative plants to create a solution for slope stabilization along Michigan highways. The selected plants need to flourish in harsh urban conditions while creating interest and beauty for the traveler as well as adjacent residents and businesses.
| • Rest Areas Locations of Michigan's highway rest areas and the amenties available at each. | • Stormwater Management Better Roads, Cleaner Streams. | • Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) VII Michigan is intended as a complementary program to efforts in California, Minnesota and Florida, along with international efforts in Ontario, Canada and Wales, United Kingdom, aimed at providing an incubator for testing of a variety of on board and road side elements and applications. One primary goal of the program is the sharing of findings and experiences with others in order to further the full realm of VII research and development. The lessons learned as part of the VII Michigan program are intended to feed into the forthcoming formal Field Operational Tests (FOT) being proposed by the United States Department of Transportation (US DOT). |
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