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Continuing Education

Instructor-Led Workshops and Seminars

Since its inception, the Center for Professional Development has been involved in developing and/or teaching numerous instructor-led workshops and seminars.

  • Traffic Signal Operations
    • Advance Coordination Features
    • Arterial Optimization
    • Diamond Interchange Signal Timing
    • Fundamentals of Signal Timing
    • Traffic Signal Operations Near Highway-Rail Grade Crossings
  • Design, Analysis, and Operations
    • Advanced Diamond Interchange Research Operations
    • Beginning and Advanced CORSIM
    • Designing and Operating Intersections for Safety (NHI course)
    • Designing and Operating Video Vehicle Detection Systems
    • Freeway Management and Operations (NHI course)
    • Freeway Traffic Operations
    • Freeway Video Detection Technology and Systems
    • Traffic Responsive Plan Selection
  • Intelligent Transportation Systems
    • Advanced Transportation Controller Standards
    • Basics of Wireline Communication
    • Center-to-Center Standards
    • Deploying Integrated ITS
    • Improving Highway Safety with ITS (NHI course)
    • ITS Standards Overview

All seminars and workshops are developed and taught using adult-learning principles with an emphasis on problem-centered learning based on the real-life experiences of the instructors and participants.

Web-Based Conferencing

Web-based conferencing is quickly becoming a popular method of providing instructional material to groups of all sizes. The Center for Professional Development has been involved in the development and presentation of several "webinars" including:

  • Managed Lanes: Information and Decision Making Needs for Traffic Control Devices,
  • Managed Lanes: Enforcement Issues, and
  • ITS Standards Overview.

The advantages of the webinar format are numerous including minimizing travel costs for participants (and instructors), providing interactive question and answer opportunities, having the ability to show graphical information, and providing a greater cost effectiveness for organizations receiving the training.

Web-based conferencing is also ideal for group meetings where there is a need to go beyond simply teleconferencing in order to show meeting participants visual material such as presentations, web sites, software demonstrations and applications, and videos.

Web-Based Clearinghouses

Clearinghouses are another form of research implementation. More and more clearinghouses are moving toward complete electronic databases of information. The Center for Professional Development currently maintains the Travel Model Improvement Program (TMIP) clearinghouse (http://tmip.fhwa.dot.gov) for the Federal Highway Administration. Another clearinghouse for traffic management centers is currently under development.

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