Virtual Courses
FTA Advanced Real Estate Requirements
FTA grantees must grasp and adhere to all stipulations outlined in the Uniform Act and its implementing regulations, alongside additional FTA regulatory directives concerning real estate acquisition. This course presents advanced topics for grantees who are...
National Transit Database: Annual Reporting for Indian Tribes
Description The goal of this course is to help transit professionals from agencies that are beneficiaries of the Tribal Transit Program of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) understand the requirements for reporting annual public transportation data to the FTA....
National Transit Database: Urban Safety and Security Reporting NON-Rail Modes
Description The goal of this course is to help transit professionals from urban transit agencies that are beneficiaries of the Urbanized Area Formula Funding program (Section 5307) of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) understand the requirements for reporting...
National Transit Database: Urban Safety & Security Rail
Description The goal of this course is to help transit professionals from urban transit agencies that are beneficiaries of the Urbanized Area Formula Funding program (Section 5307) of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) understand the requirements for reporting...
Overview of Title VI and Public Transit
Description: This overview course provides practitioners new to Title VI with a foundational understanding of how Title VI and its policies connect with public transportation and its operating environment. Objectives: Explore the history and context of Title VI...
Advanced Title VI and Public Transit
Description: The Advanced Title VI course guides practitioners in creating and implementing equitable policies and practices, making federally compliant decisions, and conducting appropriate analyses. This course takes a deeper dive into the elements affecting Title...
FTA Uniform Act Basics for Transit Agency Personnel
Description: This is a short survey-type training session intended to introduce participants to the topic of real estate acquisition for FTA-funded projects. This training will describe what a grantee needs to know when acquiring property with an FTA grant. The grant...
National Transit Database: Rural Reporting
Description: The goal of this course is to help transit professionals learn the necessary skills for reporting rural general public transit data to the NTD internet reporting website. Objectives: Participants in this course will learn: Benefits and impacts associated...
Crisis Communications for Transit Managers
Description: In this course, participants will develop the skills needed to communicate essential information to customers, stakeholders and employees during critical incidents faced by a transit agency. Agency-wide planning and training are essential. But having...
Envision® Sustainability Transit Professional Scholarship Program
The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) continues to promote initiatives to expand transit agency knowledge of environmentally sustainable project development practices that reduce the impacts of climate change in communities across the nation. To support that goal,...
Business Writing: Write it Right
Description: Whether you work remotely or not, written communication skills are equally important as communicating verbally. Poorly written documents make a first impression that can’t be taken back and can send the writer’s credibility, and the credibility of the...
A Handy Guide for Participating in NTI’s Courses
Our Registration System NTI is using the Rutgers University Noncredit Course Catalog & Registration System for course registrations. If you do not already have one, you will need to create an account in this system to register for NTI courses. You can create your...
Enhancing Your Transit Asset Management Program with Lifecycle Management
Description: Transit asset management represents a strategic approach to managing transit assets. This course aims to instruct participants on how to implement this approach within their agency and is intended for those familiar with the general principles of asset...
Principles for Effective Management and Supervision
Description: Many transit industry managers and supervisors step into their leadership roles with inadequate training and preparation. But leadership skills can be learned. This course examines fundamental and advanced leadership...
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 101 Online Course
Register here for the NEPA 101 Online Course. You will need to first register for the course through Rutgers Continuing Studies (creating an account if you do not already have one.) After you have successfully registered for the course, you will then receive...
Environmental and Sustainability Management Systems (ESMS) Introductory Online Course
Register here for the ESMS Introductory Online Course. You will need to first register for the course through Rutgers Continuing Studies and will then need a Canvas account to access the course: Please note: This course is an online, self-paced course. There is no set...
Transportation Planning Process
Description: Participants in the Transportation Planning Process (TPP) course receive an overview of the metropolitan and statewide transportation planning process, underscoring its relationship to informed decision-making and required planning processes critical to...
Public Involvement in Transportation Decision-Making
Description: This course isn’t just about simply accepting the public’s ideas—it’s about strengthening project decision-making, increasing creativity in problem-solving, and making sure project solutions are more durable. This is a highly interactive course that will...
Violence in the Transit Workplace – Prevention, Response and Recovery (Train the Trainer)
Description: The goal of this course is to provide participants with knowledge and skills to deliver training to transit agency personnel on how to prevent, respond to and recover from workplace violence. Prevention methods covered include implementing system and...
Violence in the Transit Workplace – Prevention, Response and Recovery (Direct Delivery)
The Direct Delivery version of this class is only being made available via an abbreviated video. To access the video, please click here. Description: The goal of this course is to provide participants with knowledge and skills to prevent, respond to and recover from...
Understanding ADA
Description: The goal of this course is to provide transit professionals with a basic understanding of the fundamentals of accessible public transportation under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) in a civil rights context. Objectives: Upon completion...
Title VI and Public Transit
Please note: This course will sunset after March 2023. The course is being revised and will be divided into two separate sessions, one as an introductory Overview and the other as an Advanced course. Description: This course will help practitioners appreciate the...
Quality Assurance and Quality Control in Transit
Description: To provide an overview of the essential components of quality assurance and quality control in transit agencies. This course will also review and expand upon the FTA's Quality Management System Guidelines and address the various perspectives for quality...
Procurement III: RFPs and Competitive Contract Negotiations
Description: The third course in a four-part series *, this three-day course will provide participants with a negotiation skill set. The participants will gain a greater understanding of negotiation, how to build negotiating skill sets and practice their application,...
Procurement II: Risk Assessment and Basic Cost or Price Analysis
Note: Please do not register for Procurement II without having first completed Procurement I. Description: The second of a four-part series *, this four-day course is designed to strengthen the procurement practices of transit authorities by improving the ability to...
Procurement I – Orientation to Transit Procurement
Description: This four-day foundational course is an overview of transit procurement and emphasizes "best practices" for contract procurements by FTA grantees. This course will focus on good procurement business practices and policies from a broader industry...
Introduction to Paratransit Management and Operations
Description: The goal of this course is to teach transit professionals the skills needed to effectively manage and operate paratransit services. Objectives: Participants in this course will learn: History of demand response service and where the industry is today The...
National Transit Database: Urban Reporting
Description: The goal of this course is to help transit professionals learn the necessary skills for reporting urban data to the NTD internet reporting website. Objectives: Participants in this course will learn: Benefits and impacts associated with the NTD annual...
Management of Transit Construction Projects
Description: This course will explore best practices to Manage Transit Construction Project successfully. FTA capital construction projects ranging in cost from a few million dollar to billion dollar major capital projects, which all use certain fundamental...
FTA Real Estate Requirements
Description: The acquisition of real estate and the displacement of persons for an FTA assisted project is regulated by the Uniform Act. FTA has also developed various additional regulatory guidance materials for its real estate activities. The practical application...
Disadvantaged Business Enterprise
Description: Every transit agency receiving funding from FTA must comply with DOT's DBE regulations. Transit grantees and others involved in the application and the administration of the DBE requirements should have a complete understanding of these requirements and...
Transit Noise and Vibration Impact Assessment
Description: The goal of the course is to present FTA's procedures and methods for predicting and assessing noise and vibration impacts from proposed mass transit projects. The training modules in this three-day course closely follow the procedures contained in FTA's...
Introduction to Transit Service Planning
Description: This course seeks to enable participants to understand the public transit service planning process from concept design through service implementation and service evaluation. By the end of the course, participants will be able to undertake conceptual...
Environmental Justice for Transit Professionals
Description: This two-day course provides a comprehensive review of Environmental Justice requirements for federal transit projects, and how these requirements affect transportation decision-making. The course includes a summary of the evolution of Environmental...
Transit Academy
Description: The National Transit Institute (NTI) “Transit Academy” is a comprehensive, behind-the-scenes, study of the nation’s most innovative transit systems. Academy participants will gain an in-depth understanding of the scope of responsibilities, variety of...
Project Management for Transit Professionals
Description: The goal of this course is to help transit professionals appreciate the importance of analyzing, leading, and managing the complexities of transit projects by providing them with the tools to foster success. Objectives: By the end of this course...
Assault Awareness and Prevention for Transit Operators (Train the Trainer)
Description: The virtual Assault Awareness and Prevention for Transit Operators (Train the Trainer) course will provide transit agency instructional staff with the support necessary to deliver the Assault Awareness and Prevention course within their agencies. Each...
Assault Awareness and Prevention for Transit Operators (Direct Delivery)
To view an abbreviated course recording please click here. Description: The goal of this course is to give bus operators in the transit industry the knowledge and skills needed to reduce the likelihood of assault incidents from occurring. Prevention methods covered...