This activity includes both contracted and staff activities related to national planning analysis training. Staff activities include coordination of training program, technical oversight and project management, delivery of courses, marketing activities. Contracted activities include development, delivery and marketing.
TMIP currently supports 2 types of training, courses and seminars.
Courses: TMIP assists FHWA and NHI and NTI in the coordination, development and delivery of training courses. Currently, TMIP staff are involved in 5 courses:
- Devleopment and Implementation of Travel Surveys (under revision)
- Introduction to Urban Travel Demand Forecasting
- Advanced Travel Demand Forecasting (under revision)
- Multimodal Travel Forecasting
- Estimating Regional Mobile Source Emissions
The Surveys and advanced TDF courses have been taken off-line. Advanced TDF is to be revised, but has been delayed due to lack of funding. Options are being explored as to what to do with the Surveys course.
Through the TMIP Support contract, TMIP hosted 3 open enrollment courses in FY04, and will deliver another 3 in FY05.
Seminars: TMIP develops and delivers seminars, which are 1 day technical seminars, free of charge. Typically, TMIP delivers 3 of each seminar per year. The seminars are completely sponsored, organized and funded by TMIP. Currently, TMIP has 3 active seminars: Model Calibration and Validation, and Forecasting Land Use Activities, and Activity and Tour based Modeling. Through the TMIP Support contract there were 3 deliveries of each seminar in FY04, a total of 9 deliveries. The same level of delivery will be done in FY05. The seminars can also be delivered on-demand for a fee of approximately $7000 through TMIP.
To develop and deliver training to planners on planning analysis techniques
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Ongoing