Colorado LTAPUniversity of Colorado3100 Marine St, Rm A213Boulder, Colorado 80309-0561Tel: 303-735-3530 Fax: 303-735-2968Email: cltap@colorado.edu Web: http://ltap.colorado.edu/

Roads Scholar I Program

Colorado Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) manages three different training programs. The Roads Scholar I program started in 1991, and is designed to provide participants with the training necessary to increase their knowledge of transportation safety, local road maintenance and construction procedures and improve their technical skills by attending a wide variety of programs available at reasonable costs.

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CLTAP maintains two mailing lists. The brochure mailing list includes those persons who receive notification of upcoming training events and registration forms. The other is the quarterly newsletter mailing list. Each list is available electronically. If you would like to be added to either list please contact the CO LTAP office or sign-up online. Course schedules and registration forms are also available online through our website.

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What are the 4 Required Core Classes? Signing, Pavement Markings & MUTCD (SPMM):

Roadway Signing Standards, Criteria for CO, Types of Signs, Location/Placement; Pavement Markings and Delineators, Warrants, Object Markers; Introduction to the MUTCD - Language and Parts 1-4.

Roadway Safety & Wk Zone Traffic Control (RSWZTC): Roadway Safety and Roadside Hazards, Low Cost Safety Countermeasures, Liability, Human Factors, MUTCD Parts 1, 5 & 6, Flagger Safety, Safety Edge, Night Work, Typical Applications, and Hands-on Exercises.

Drainage (D): Why is Drainage Important, Maintenance of Different Drainage Types, Evolution of Materials Used, Difference in Rural and Urban Structures, Integrity and Strength of Subgrade, Effects of Moisture, etc.

Safety on the Job (SOJ): Developing a Safety Culture, Preventing Slips, Trips, and Falls, Personal Protective Equipment, Lockout-Tagout and Machine Guarding, Safety Around Heavy Equipment, Trenching and Excavation Safety

This outlines a few of the topics covered in the 4 core curriculum courses. The Cores don’t have to be taken in any particular order; however, it is suggested to take SPMM before RSWZTC. SPMM & RSWZTC are offered in the spring each year with D & SOJ offered in the fall.

What are the 5 Elective Courses? Five additional Electives are needed for a total of nine courses. There is no prescribed list of required elective courses for the Roads Scholar I program. Participants can count an elective to be any minimum 8-hour class CO LTAP offers. Courses offered in the RS II or Supervisory Skills programs cannot count as RS I electives. Multi-day workshops count as just one RS I elective. Elective courses change each year and many new courses are added throughout the year.

Elective courses range in topics from roadway materials, maintenance, and construction issues; to transportation safety, management, and roadway design aspects. Popular elective course topics often alternate every other year.

Please call the office or visit our website for an updated list of elective courses currently scheduled.

How Can I Become a Roads Scholar?Colorado LTAP holds classes at varying locations throughout the state. Courses are open to all state, county, and city municipal employees with an interest in transportation related topics. To become a designated “Roads Scholar” each participant must take the 4 core curriculum courses and five additional electives of their choice, for a total of nine courses. At each course, participants receive a certificate of attendance, and upon completion of the program requirements are presented with a plaque. The Roads Scholar full-day class fee is $50 per person for employees of government agencies, and $75 per person for non-government agencies. There is no time limit to completing the coursework.