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This spreadsheet is part of the final deliverable for Report 2024RIC07, " Best Practices for Dust Control in Minnesota."

The intent of the Minnesota Airport Development Guide is to promote a statewide system of airports by providing a framework for meeting the short, intermediate, and long range needs for airport and air navigation facilities in the State of Minnesota. General supervision over aeronautics within the State is the responsibility of the Commissioner of Transportation. It is his responsibility to encourage, foster, and assist aeronautics development and to encourage the establishment of airports and air navigation facilities. Minnesota Statutes 360 establishes a State Airport Fund consisting of aviation user (aircraft registration, aviation fuel, and airline flight property) taxes collected by the State. Monies are appropriated by the State Legislature from this fund to the Department of Transportation. These monies are used to assist airport sponsors to acquire, construct, improve, maintain, and operate airports and air navigation facilities. The monies are to be expended upon projects included in the State airport system established by the Commissioner, These airports or air navigation facilities are owned, controlled, or operated or are to be owned, controlled, or operated by political subdivisions of the State of Minnesota. The Airport Development Guide identifies the State airport system and attempts to coordinate long-range development of airports and air navigation facilities. It is a document for use at the local level as a framework for aviation needs, but public airport sponsors have the ultimate responsibility to determine the extent and timing of actual airport projects.

An annual conference for the bituminous industry has been planned by asphalt producers and users, representatives from state and local agencies, and continuing educators from the University of Minnesota for the past 32 years. These groups have cooperated once again to provide updated training on bituminous practices particular to conditions in Minnesota. In addition, this year's program featured an overview of load limit issues for highways, regulation and monitoring of load limits, a report on the St. Cloud Airport Project, a practical back-to-the-basics presentation (i.e., mix design, modification in specs, etc.), and a research/experimental project update.

The following document is obsolete, and was created in conjunction with Standard Plan sheets for bent-pipe monotube overhead sign supports, for the sole purpose of selecting main members from a limited number of pre-engineered sizes under a controlled set of geometric criteria. Its basis of design is the 1994 edition of the AASHTO Standard Specifications for Structural Supports for Highway Signs, Luminaires and Traffic Signals. Minnesota's current design document for Sign Supports is the 2001 edition of the above-mentioned AASHTO publication. The 2001 edition requires a fatigue analysis for all cantilevered sign and signal support structures. The attached document was prepared prior to that requirement. Minnesota Department of Transportation does not endorse or warrant the use of this document or the Standard Plan sheets addressed in this document to produce a sign support structure that will be compliant with current specifications. Any such structure must be designed by a qualified engineer, and must address design, constructability, and maintenance deficiencies that could result from the use of this document.

This document describes the various methods of traffic management used in Minnesota.

The purpose of this document is to summarize the findings of a road and weather information systems (R/WIS) feasibility workshop which was conducted on December 4-5, 1995 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The results of this workshop will be utilized by the Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) and ENTERPRISE, a consortium of DOT's committed to the development and deployment of ITS initiatives throughout the United States, as a primary component in the development of their respective R/WIS programs.

This document discusses a series of pavement rehabilitation seminars and workshops that were held in March, 1983. These workshops were organized by MnDOT as a way for staff from different districts to collaborate on pavement rehabilitation techniques.

The growing prevalence of mobility hubs has made design guidelines and case studies more widely available, yet most existing mobility hub projects are designed for larger urban or suburban environments. In late 2022, the rural Minnesota city of Grand Rapids began an 18-month AV pilot project called goMARTI. With goMARTI’s launch, a need for mobility hubs designed for this rural city setting emerged—one that researchers at the U of M’s Minnesota Design Center set out to meet in a year-long research project funded by the Minnesota Department of Transportation as part of the goMARTI pilot.

This document shows Minnesota's post-1967 highway needs through graphics and images.

The design development of the I-394 highway corridor will transport the motorist through the communities of Wayzata, Minnetonka, Plymouth, St. Louis Park, Golden Valley and Minneapolis. The images and impressions of these communities will be determined by the view from the freeway, requiring that the designers place appropriate emphasis on the visual enhancement of the various design elements which will occur within the corridor. The visual character of this corridor will provide the motorist with an introduction to the metropolitan area and a strong sense of visual and physical arrival. Design elements throughout the corridor should be considered comprehensively and coordinated so that order and continuity emerge. This detail design guide will provide highway designers, engineers, landscape architects, technicians and field personnel with the necessary visual and physical design guidelines for the development of this freeway corridor.