Build a Better Mousetrap

Explore innovations from transportation agencies nationwide through the Build a Better Mousetrap program.
Explore innovations from transportation agencies nationwide through the Build a Better Mousetrap program.
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Innovations are essential to moving operations forward through making the workplace safer, improving the efficiency of the work departments do, and/or improving safety of transportation. One avenue to share innovations from your department as well as borrow ideas from others is the Build a Better Mousetrap program. Nebraska LTAP accepts BBM nominations year-round.

Nationally, the winners are shared on the national program web site as well as in a YouTube video.

The 2023 Nebraska winner, recently recognized at the Local Roads Conference in Sioux Falls, SD, was from the City of Hastings Street Department. City staff repurposed a chassis into a hotbox asphalt trailer with hydraulic features to make filling potholes less strenuous on employees. Congratulations!