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The ITS Professional Capacity Building (PCB) Program. Program Definition. What is “Professional Capacity Building”?: Process of developing knowledge and skills that directly increase effectiveness in job performance Relies on multiple methods to achieve “continuous” and “accessible” learning: - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The ITS Professional Capacity The ITS Professional Capacity Building (PCB) Program Building (PCB) Program
What is “Professional Capacity Building”?:
• Process of developing knowledge and skills that directly increase effectiveness in job performance
• Relies on multiple methods to achieve “continuous” and “accessible” learning:
– Training
– Education
– Technical Assistance
– Outreach
– Peer Exchange
– Others
Program Definition
ITS PCB Program: Philosophy
• With the right mix of training, education, technical assistance, and information, individuals and agencies can better prepare to meet ITS needs, and receive the right depth of information at the right time.
• Readily accessible requires that the most effective form of learning materials be available when the need arises for a professional to learn.
The ITS PCB Program
• Portal for ITS Learning:– Over 30 instructor-led courses in current ITS
Curriculum– Links to other courses and sources of technical
assistance
• Reliance on partnerships
• Annual program of $3 to 3.5 million
ITS PCB Program: Partners
ITS PCB Program: Content
Four major program elements:
1. Training: Building State-of-the-Art ITS Knowledge and Skills
– new course development– course updates– delivery and distance learning
2. Education: Creating the Transportation Workforce of the Future
3. Technical Assistance: Timely Problem Solving with a Network of Experts
4. Information Outreach: Information Where and When You Need It
Training
Training
Coursework: Average of 3,000 participants take PCB classroom training per year
An ITS Curriculum with 3 levels of learning based on known needs: Awareness Learning Core Learning Specialized Learning
Training: The ITS Curriculum
Additional Curricula
• Systems Engineering (SE) Series• Standards• Transit• More?
SE Serieshttp://www.pcb.its.dot.gov/brochures/ITS_SE.htm
Training
An ITS Curriculum Guide: An on-line engine tailors the ITS Curriculum to individualor agency needs and preferences
• www.pcb.its.dot.gov/CG.asp
Training: Opportunities
Catalogs: Making training accessible; lists PCB Programand partner training available around the Nation
Training: Distance Learning
The PCB T3 Program: “Technical Training by Telephone”;brief technical training/assistance sessions presented through audio-teleconference technologies
Web-based courses: HTML presentations with testing opportunities; Currently hosting 3 courses with 2 additional by end of 2003
Education
Education
Academic institutions and the incorporation of ITS in courses and degree programs
Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC) and the marketing and distribution of information
CITE Consortium
Technical Assistance
Technical Assistance
Technical Assistance Navigator Peer to Peer Matrix
Information Outreach
Information Outreach
Right Information at Right Time Website Peer exchange and insight PCB state/local programs PCB Online
Program Feedbackhttp://www.pcb.its.dot.gov/PCB_feedback.asp
ITS PCB Program:End Result
• Flexible, accessible program• Up-to-date, based on known needs• Mechanisms for continuous learning• Ways to tailor for professional
development• Working toward a better integration
with workforce development
Update on New Initiatives
• Core Learning• Travel Management Courses• Transit Courses• ITS/CVO Courses• Web-based Courses
Core Learning
• Deploying ITS in Metropolitan Areas– Available Fall 2003 for delivery
• Rural ITS Toolbox– Available NOW
• ITS Public/Private Partnerships– Update beginning
• Using the National ITS Architecture– Available NOW
• ITS Procurement– Updates under review
Core Learning• ITS Software Acquisition
– Available NOW
• Introduction to Systems Engineering– Available NOW
• Managing High Technology Projects– Classroom course– Web-based course– Blended version starting Oct. 1
• Managing Incidents– Available NOW
• ITS Standards Overview– Standards curriculum under review
Travel Management Courses
• ITS Awareness Seminar– Available NOW
• Planning for Operations– New course available later in 2003
• CORSIM– Available NOW
• Recommended Practices for Operations– Available NOW
• IDAS– Available NOW
Travel Management Courses
• Road Weather Management– Just Piloted, Available 2004
• Computerized Traffic Signal Systems– Available NOW, Updates by December
2003• Freeway Traffic Operations
– Available NOW• Configuration Management
– New course available later in 2003
Travel Management
• Fiber Optic Installation– Workshop available NOW
• Turbo Architecture– Available NOW
• Transportation Management for Special Events– New course, RFP to be submitted
September 2003
• ITS for Small Communities– New course, RFP to be submitted
September 2003
Transit Management
• Systems Engineering Applications in Transit Architecture Consistency workshop– Later in 2003
• Updates to ITS Consistency Workshop– Revisions this September
Transit Management
• Transit Applications of ITS in Multimodal Planning– Available later in 2003
• BRT course– Recent pilot– Available later in 2003
ITS / CVO
• CVISN Overview Course– Considering a web-based version
• ITS/CVO Security Technology Awareness Course– Classroom and web-based, 2004
• Potential courses or themes:– Driver / Vehicle Roadside Strategies for
2010– Benefits/ Costs and funding sources– Expanded CVISN capabilities
• Utilizing the T3 Program
Web-based Training
• Intro to the National ITS Architecture– Available NOW
• Applied Systems Engineering– Available NOW
• Managing High Technology Projects– Available NOW
• Intro to Systems Engineering– Under development
• ITS Awareness Seminar– Under development
T3 Program Feedbackhttp://www.pcb.its.dot.gov/T3/form_feedbk.htm
Conclusion
• Questions?
www.pcb.its.dot.gov