New Jersey traffic control documentation requirements
What New Jersey DOT asks a contractor to record about temporary traffic control, where that requirement comes from, and how strong the evidence behind it is.
What New Jersey requires
NJDOT puts the obligation on a named, certified individual. The on-site Traffic Control Coordinator is a full-time position, must hold Rutgers CAIT Traffic Control Coordinator certification with a refresher every two years, and must be available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Two of the TCC's listed duties are documentation duties: “Performing daily traffic control inspections and providing written reports to the RE documenting the inspections, including detailed findings and corrections made,” and “Performing inspections at night and on weekends to ensure compliance with the TCP and providing written reports to the RE documenting the inspections, including detailed findings and corrections made.”
The same section requires deficiencies to be identified and corrected immediately, and any deficiency the Resident Engineer directs to be corrected within two hours of notification — which makes the timestamp on the correction part of the record that matters.
Source: NJDOT 2019 Standard Specifications, Section 159How we know: Read directly from the NJDOT 2019 Standard Specifications, Section 159.03.01, p. 108. Verified 2026-09-05.
The agency's form. NJDOT Daily Work Zone Inspection Report DC-189A is the agency's form for this.
On federal-aid work, 23 CFR 630 Subparts J and K apply whatever New Jersey 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 New Jersey requirement on the generated PDF. Open a sample before deciding anything.
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Draw the closure on a map and the builder reads the route, mileposts and county from New Jersey’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.
Open the New Jersey builder → · open the offline build · all 50 statesWhat changes at the New Jersey 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 New Jersey compare:
| State | Citation | Evidence we have |
|---|---|---|
| Delaware | Section 812 (Certified Traffic Control Supervisor) | Contract-binding spec language |
| New York | §619-3.02N (Contract Site Patrol); §619-1.03 (Basic Work Zone Traffic Control, Daily Operations) | Binding language identified |
| Pennsylvania | Not yet verified | Agency source, high confidence |
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