The LRRB is featured in the spring newsletter (Page 4) of the Michigan Local Technical Assistance Program. The story covers the LRRB’s history and benefits, as well as its new research idea solicitation and selection process. In addition to successes, the article discusses the program’s challenges, including encouraging broader participation of city and county engineers and evolving techniques for promoting research products and resources.
Highlighted LRRB research includes the 2015 rumble strip noise comparison study in rural Polk County, the ongoing development of a unified permitting system in Minnesota and Carver County’s testing of pickle brine as an anti-icing agent.