Trauner rewrote the Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) 1999 Standard Specifications for Highway Construction. Tasks for this project included improving readability; eliminating jargon and unnecessary italicized comments; enhancing style consistency, including standard and uniform use of grammar, fonts, spacing, outlining, and page numbering (as identified by the ODOT Style Guide standards drawn from the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Ed.); reducing redundancies and repetition; introducing an outline format, using a standard alphanumeric system consistent with that criterion in the ODOT Style Guide; providing a consistent approach for units, numerals, punctuation, capitalization, titles, outlining, tables, and lists; expanding the definition of appropriate terms in Section 100, including definitions for all technical terms; maintaining dual unit references, U.S. customary as primary and metric, in brackets, as secondary; using standard symbols (acronyms, abbreviations, etc.) for items, but using complete descriptions for locally-used terms and as shown on project plans; providing suggestions on inconsistent measurement and payment issues; using the outline format where appropriate to reduce numbered lists; and providing a consistent approach to internal cross references.