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Hawaii traffic control documentation requirements

What Hawaii DOT asks a contractor to record about temporary traffic control, where that requirement comes from, and how strong the evidence behind it is.

Primary source

Hawaii DOT — primary source

Source confidence

High

What Hawaii requires

Documented requirement

HDOT's Standard Specifications Section 645 (Work Zone Traffic Control, as amended by current special provisions) governs temporary traffic control — traffic control plans due 15 working days in advance, strict lane-closure hour limits, and police officers at closure locations; documentation requirements are set per contract special provision.

Source: Hawaii DOT — primary source

How solid is this? Hawaii is documented from a high-confidence agency source, linked above, but we have not yet verified contract-binding specification language the way we have for the states in the full analysis. What governs your job is your contract and its special provisions — check them. This page is a stub until that verification is done, and it is deliberately excluded from search results so it cannot pass itself off as more than it is.

On federal-aid work, 23 CFR 630 Subparts J and K apply whatever Hawaii specifies, with a compliance date of December 31, 2026 — the federal floor, explained. And after an incident the questions come from the incident, not the specification: 105 published judicial matters on that.

DTCD produces this record from the drive-through itself, and names the controlling Hawaii requirement on the generated PDF. Open a sample before deciding anything.

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Filing a work-zone request in Hawaii?

Draw the closure on a map and the builder reads the route, mileposts and county from Hawaii’s own public GIS, checks bridge clearance on the route and the detour, and exports a WZDx feature, a PDF or an email. It runs in the browser — nothing is submitted or stored.

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What changes at the Hawaii state line

Crews rarely work one state, and the record a neighbouring DOT expects is often named differently and cited somewhere else entirely. Here is how the states bordering Hawaii compare:

State	Citation	Evidence we have
California	Section 12-4.02C(11)(a)(iii) (Traffic Control Technician — Submittals)	Contract-binding spec language
Nevada	Section 624.03.06 (Traffic Control Supervisor)	Contract-binding spec language
Oregon	Section 00220 (Accommodations for Public Traffic) — TCS duties	Contract-binding spec language
Washington	Section 2-04.3(1)B (Traffic Control Supervisor)	Contract-binding spec language

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