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

• Pcbquestions@volpe.dot.gov

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