Choosing the Right Road Safety Product for the Right Work Zone: A Practical Guide for Engineers & Contractors
April 23rd, 2026
Time: 11:00 AM ET | 10:00 AM CT | 8:00 AM PT
Duration: 60 minutes
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Summary
Aging transportation infrastructure around the world needs timely rehabilitation and maintenance using innovative, sustainable and efficient means and strategies. Traffic management plans for roadway, bridge and tunnel construction and rehabilitation projects can be challenging due to the traffic and worker safety challenges associated with designing an efficient and productive work zone. Choosing the right safety and traffic mobility solution not only helps minimize the work zone impacts but also helps the project stay on schedule and avoid delays due to work zone incidents involving motorists.
Maintenance of traffic (MOT) plan and construction sequencing for High Volume-High Speed roadway projects address:
- Work zone productivity that ensures safe access to/from the work zone for workers and construction equipment with minimal impact on road users.
- Traffic mobility in and around the work zone by reducing traffic delays and queuing.
- Traffic safety by choosing the right fit products and strategies.
Strategic traffic management planning and choosing the right products can help with increasing work zone efficiency, minimizing traffic flow impacts and reducing motorist-related safety incidents in the work zone. The work zone must be designed to address the operational challenges of safety, work zone efficiency and traffic mobility with cost optimization emerging as a natural byproduct of early completion, reduced user delay cost, reduced crash cost and better-quality work requiring lesser ongoing maintenance. Using lessons learned from multiple construction projects from throughout the world, this presentation will help engineers and contractors compare road safety and mobility product and strategy selection for high speed vs. low speed environments.
Speakers
Smita Sharma
Senior Manager, Application Engineering - Road Zipper
Lindsay
Smita is a transportation engineer who has worked on various research and consulting projects in transportation engineering, planning and GIS. Due to the breadth of her work and educational experience, she considers herself a problem-solver capable of analyzing issues using both top-down and bottom-up approaches. Currently, she leads Applications Engineering (AE) for Road Zipper at Lindsay. Her role includes overseeing Road Zipper's major projects working closely with the commercial team and the customers.
Sean Brockhouse
Product Manager, Infrastructure - Road Safety
Lindsay
Sean is the Product Manager responsible for Infrastructure and Road Safety for Lindsay, and has held this position for 5 years. With more than two decades experience in manufacturing engineering and leading new product development, he is passionate about customer relationships, listening and understanding their needs and pain points, and working with talented professionals to develop better products and services that help save lives across the world.
