Participants taking the Transportation Planning Process course receive an overview of the metropolitan and statewide transportation planning process, underscoring its relationship to informed decision-making and the required planning process. This course expands knowledge of transportation planning practice fundamentals and the ability to convey the relationship of these principles to the Federal planning program requirements. […]
Description: This course presents the USDOT performance-based planning and programming framework and how the elements of the framework relate to current planning and programming process, including key issues such as fiscal constraint, air quality conformity, the congestion management process, public involvement, Federal planning factors and other relevant issues. The concepts presented in the […]
Upcoming Deliveries This online, self-paced course offered through the National Highway Institute (NHI) is ongoing. Please click here to register. Description: Offered through the National Highway Institute (NHI), this online course provides an introduction to the Statewide, metropolitan, and rural transportation planning requirements and highlights techniques that may be applied. It highlights the transportation requirements […]
Description: The goals of this course are to introduce transit-planning professionals to the Federal Transit Administration’s Simplified Trips-on-Project Software (STOPS) package, learn the fundamentals of its components and local implementation, and recognize the information that can be drawn from its ridership forecasts to inform decisions on transit plans, projects, and services. Topics […]
Pre-Workshop Requirements This workshop requires up to twenty (20) hours of advance preparation. Case briefs and a study guide will be provided to you approximately two weeks before the workshop. Participants are required to: 1. Read up to ten (10) case briefs, and 2. Use case brief study guides to prepare for workshop discussions. Successful workshop […]
No Deliveries Currently Please keep checking back. Description: This course is a cooperative effort among the Federal Highway Administration (both the FHWA Office of Planning and the National Highway Institute), the Federal Transit Administration and the National Transit Institute. This course provides a general introduction and overview of the metropolitan transportation planning process. It covers […]
Description: Public Involvement is much more than posting notices and holding public hearings. Public participation involves creative thinking, with willingness and ability to interact openly to the public’s preferred forms of communication. It is about being sensitive to disparate needs and conflicting priorities. It is about giving the public an opportunity to influence transportation […]
No Deliveries Currently Please keep checking back. Description: Transportation and Land Use is a three-day course that is designed to help practitioners develop a multimodal transportation system that supports desired land uses and help shape land uses to support the transportation system. The course will assist participants in understanding the relationships between transportation and land […]
Description: Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is defined as compact, mixed-use development near transit that creates sustainable communities where people of all ages and incomes have transportation and housing choices where people can walk, bike, and take transit. The goal of this course is to help transportation and land use professionals effectively participate in […]
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 recently updated guidance on the subject (Transit Noise and Vibration Impact Assessment, May 2006). […]
