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Training
Congestion Management Process
- Implications of Air Quality Planning for Transportation (NHI Course #142044) – The course goes beyond the statutes to explain how the integrated transportation and air quality planning process has been defined and reinforced over the past decade by regulations, guidance, and litigation.
Data Collection and Sharing
- Uses of Multimodal Freight Forecasting in Transportation Planning (NHI Course #139002) – This course will identify freight planning questions that are commonly addressed by Transportation Planners, demonstrate the use and value of different freight forecasting techniques to answer those questions, and review Notable Practices on freight forecasting techniques used by metropolitan and state transportation agencies.
- Applying GIS and Spatial Data Technologies to Transportation (NHI Course #151039) – The overall course goal is to prepare participants to evaluate and plan for the implementation of a variety of transportation planning applications that rely on spatial data technologies.
- Introduction to Urban Travel Demand Forecasting (NHI Course #152054) – This introductory course covers the traditional four-step planning process of trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice, and traffic assignment in travel demand forecasting. The course also includes presentations on the development of land use forecasts, network and zone structures, and use of geographic information systems. To reinforce the concepts taught in the classroom, the course includes instruction in using software applications to solve problems previously solved manually. Computer experience is a prerequisite for this course.
Funding and Resource Sharing
- Highway Program Financing (NHI Course #152072) – This course covers the various aspects of Federal-aid highway financing unique to the FHWA program.
Institutional Arrangements
- Public Involvement in the Transportation Decision-Making Process (NHI Course #142036) – Public involvement is much more than public hearings and involves creative thinking, the willingness and ability to interact openly, and sensitivity to the public's preferred forms of communication and participation. Public involvement is about giving the public an opportunity to influence transportation decision making. The public should have a role in every phase of decision making, including the design of the public involvement plan itself. Successful public involvement means addressing the public's procedural, psychological, and substantive needs. By focusing on interests – rather than positions – public involvement can become more meaningful, as well as useful.
Performance Measurement
- Shared Unit Performance System Support (SUPPS) (FHWA Resource Center) – The SUPPS is a system designed to manage the information found in the diverse formats of the unit performance plans. The system provides a common platform for sharing ideas and allows users to search on words and phrases and generate consolidated reports by strategic goals, performance objectives, and vital few strategies.
Regional ITS Architecture
Regional Transportation Systems Management and Operations