Tyrrell “Ty” Barger
Public works and infrastructure leader with experience across county road and bridge operations, state transportation, municipal public works, transportation research, winter maintenance, and military leadership.
Ouray County roadside work · Ty Barger field photograph, August 2026. Illustrative; a specific project is not identified.
Tyrrell “Ty” Barger is the 2025 CARSE Road Supervisor of the Year. His career connects hands-on county road operations with statewide transportation support, municipal public works and military leadership.
He has led large public-sector workforces and managed responsibilities involving transportation infrastructure, road maintenance, fleet and facilities, capital planning, procurement, contract administration, winter operations, emergency management, and organizational improvement.
As Road & Bridge Superintendent for Ouray County, Colorado, his work has included organizational restructuring, long-range road planning, and development of right-of-way policy. In 2025, the Colorado Association of Road Supervisors and Engineers recognized him as Road Supervisor of the Year.
Earlier, Barger held statewide operational responsibilities with the Nebraska Department of Transportation, where his work included transportation operations support, procurement, fleet and facilities, process improvement, and participation in deicer research. Before that, he managed a 120-person municipal public-works workforce for the City of Lincoln.
His professional work includes development of an innovative winter-maintenance program. Barger reports that the program reduced Lincoln’s overall winter-maintenance costs by approximately 30 percent, including changes to crew and equipment deployment; the case study explains the basis of that figure. He co-authored the Roads & Bridges article “Customizing brine,” has been quoted by Government Fleet and Boise State Public Radio on municipal operations and snow removal, and is the named inventor on two related U.S. patents for deicing-brine production, granted in 2019 and 2023.
Before his civilian public-works career, Barger served in the United States Marine Corps, ultimately attaining the rank of Major. Contemporaneous service and race records are linked from his experience page.
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Ty Barger is a public works and infrastructure leader with experience in county road and bridge operations, state transportation, municipal public works, winter maintenance, fleet management, transportation research, and organizational leadership. He is the 2025 CARSE Road Supervisor of the Year, co-author of a Roads & Bridges technical article on customized brine, the named inventor on two related deicing-brine patents, and a former U.S. Marine Corps officer who attained the rank of Major.