About this episode

This episode discusses winter operations and innovation in road maintenance with Todd May from Indiana DOT.

A hundred and fifty years ago road departments leaned on the farmers next to the road to help maintain it and often times paid them to do so. As time marched on and road departments became DOTs with dedicated maintenance workers and tools and technology advanced there is still a lot of innovation that takes place in the maintenance garage. On this episode we're talking winter ops with Indiana DOT’s Director of Innovation and Process Improvement Todd May. Trust and innovatio...

People in this episode

Host: Rick Nelson

Guest: Todd May

Topics covered

• winter operations
• innovation
• road maintenance
• technology
• process improvement

Keywords

• winter ops
• road maintenance
• innovation
• DOT
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Indiana DOT, road departments

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