Regional Roadside Turfgrass Performance Testing Program

The objectives of this project are to (1) Institute a multi-state roadside turf grass testing program; (2) Develop a data collection and reporting system that provides the most recent research results to state departments of transportation (DOTs) in a timely manner; and (3) Increase collaboration between University research programs that work on roadside turf.

• Record URL:
  http://www.pooledfund.org/Details/Study/595

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $260000
• Contract Numbers:

  TPF-5(346)

  MnDOT 1003325, WO#4

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Michigan Department of Transportation

  Van Wagoner Building
  425 W. Ottawa Street
  Lansing, MI  United States  48909

  Minnesota Department of Transportation

  Transportation Building
  395 John Ireland Boulevard
  St Paul, MN  United States  55155

  Nebraska Department of Transportation

  1500 Highway 2
  P.O. Box 94759
  Lincoln, NE  United States  68509-4759

  Wisconsin Department of Transportation

  PO Box 7910
  4802 Sheboygan Avenue, Room 104
  Madison, WI  United States  53707-7910

  New Jersey Department of Transportation

  1035 Parkway Avenue
  Trenton, NJ  United States  08625
• Project Managers:

  Sinclair, Debbie

• Performing Organizations:

  University of Minnesota, Minneapolis

  Center for Transportation Studies
  Minneapolis, MN  United States  55455
• Principal Investigators:

  Watkins, Eric

• Start Date: 20211013
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• Source Data: RiP Project 42002

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Cooperation; Grasses; Roadside flora; State departments of transportation; Testing; Turf; Vegetation control
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01599759
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Federal Highway Administration
• Contract Numbers: TPF-5(346), MnDOT 1003325, WO#4
• Files: RIP, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: May 22 2016 11:28AM