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

Rural ITS Toolbox (NHI Course #137007) – This course describes many ITS related practices and techniques that have been successfully applied to rural transportation problems.
Deploying the National Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Architecture (NHI Course #137013) – This course is designed to be an interactive workshop that demonstrates how to apply National ITS Architecture tools and methodologies to the development of regional and project ITS architecture.
ITS for Transit: Applications, Costs and Benefits (National Transit Institute) – This course provides an overview of the range and capabilities of ITS technologies and a methodology for determining their value to an organization. This course presents actual application case studies to provide examples of costs and benefits experienced when implementing ITS technologies.
Additional ITS Architecture Courses

Regional Transportation Systems Management and Operations

Advancing Transportation Systems Management and Operations (NHI Course #133098) – This course provides an understanding of Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSM&O) in a regional context. It explores 21st century transportation challenges and how to advance TSM&O through a cultural shift in operations and planning. Throughout this course, collaboration and coordination among transportation professionals and related stakeholders are emphasized as key components to reshaping the culture and enabling the advancement of TSM&O. A five-part framework for collaboration and coordination is described to assist transportation professionals and related stakeholders in working together in a meaningful and sustained way.
Metropolitan Transportation Planning (NHI Course #152069) – This course provides a general introduction and overview of the metropolitan transportation planning process, underscoring its relationship to informed decision making.
Managing Travel for Planned Special Events (NHI Course #133099) – This course provides practitioners with a working knowledge of the techniques and strategies they may wish to use for the successful planning and operation of a specific planned special event. Practitioners will gain an understanding of the collective tasks facing multidisciplinary and inter-jurisdictional stakeholder groups charged with developing and implementing solutions to acute and system-wide impacts on travel during a special event. Instructors will identify all potential tasks and stakeholder activities conducted within individual phases of managing planned special events.
Arterial Management
Emergency Preparedness and Security
Freight Management and Commercial Vehicle Operations
HOV Lane Development
Regional Signal Coordination
Regional Traffic Management Centers
Road Weather Management
Traffic Incident Management
Traveler Information
Work Zone Management