Expand your TSMO knowledge with a variety of new courses offered by the National Highway Institute. See descriptions of courses below and sign up today.
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Making the Business Case for Institutional, Organizational, and Procedural Changes for TSMO
This course is designed to teach state and local Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) champions how and why they need to make a business case for TSMO implementation. The course teaches the basic concepts presented in the online manual Advancing TSMO: Making the Business Case for Institutional, Organizational, and Procedural Changes.
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Planning for TSMO - Concepts and Applications
Planning for TSMO - Concepts and Applications is a self-directed, self-paced course that builds upon Course 1: NHI-133131: Planning for TSMO - Introduction and takes approximately 6 hours to complete. It includes an examination of the steps to integrate TSMO into the transportation planning process, how TSMO strategies can enhance planning, programming, and project development outcomes, and how to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of an objectives-driven performance-based approach.
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Planning for TSMO: Introduction
This introductory course focuses on planning for TSMO and ways to effectively integrate TSMO into the transportation planning process. It is a web-based self-directed training course and takes approximately 2 hours to complete. It includes an introduction to planning for TSMO, an overview of the process of planning for TSMO (an objectives-driven performance-based approach), the need and methods of collaboration, and ways to promote institutionalizing of planning for TSMO.
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Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) 101
TSMO 101 provides individuals new to TSMO with a foundational understanding of what it is, how it works, and what it means. This course defines TSMO through contextual examples so that practitioners new to TSMO can develop a fundamental and real world understanding of it, how it relates to what they do, and what benefits can be realized through its use. Participants will explore TSMO strategies and how they can be used to address various problems and achieve desired outcomes. Participants will also review the impacts of TSMO on organizational structures including the initiatives necessary to sustain TSMO.
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Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) Benefit Cost Analysis (BCA)
Due to an increasingly competitive fiscal environment, state, regional, and local transportation planning organizations around the country are being asked more than ever to justify their programs and expenditures. In many cases, TSMO projects have shown to provide significant benefits at lower cost when compared to traditional infrastructure projects. Benefit-cost analyses (BCAs) are an important element in justifying these TSMO initiatives as they allow a ranking against other transportation projects.
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Understanding and Applying the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) to Advance TSMO Programs
The Understanding and Applying the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) to Advance Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) Programs provides TSMO champions with enough knowledge about the CMM to be able to understand how the CMM could support TSMO programs and how to conduct a self-assessment of their own organization and partner organization’s capabilities to deliver TSMO. This includes such tasks as identifying the current levels of capability regarding key processes, organization, staff, and collaboration issues that may assist the state/region in defining the priorities among an array of possible actions to improve TSMO efforts. The purpose of the self-assessment is to develop a consensus evaluation of the state of play and promising next steps in advancing the effectiveness of the statewide TSMO efforts.
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Talking TIM Webinar Series
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The Talking TIM webinar series provides a forum where TIM practitioners can exchange information about current practices, programs, and technologies. Each month, Talking TIM will highlight successful programs, identify best practices, and showcase technology that advances the profession. Paul Jodoin, Jim Austrich, and Joseph Tebo, FHWA Office of Operations, organize and moderate this webinar series hosted by the National Operations Center of Excellence (NOCoE).
Agendas are posted several weeks ahead of the webinar.
To suggest topics or presenters for a future webinar, please reach out to the FHWA TIM Program Team (Paul Jodoin, Jim Austrich, and Joseph Tebo). Click here subscribe to Talking TIM webinar and other TIM-related announcements.
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Road Weather Spotlight Webinar Series
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The U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA’s) Office of Operations is collaborating with the National Operations Center of Excellence (NOCoE) to host a bimonthly webinar series on road weather management (RWM). These webinars, called the Road Weather Spotlight Series, align with the mission of the FHWA RWM Program to inform stakeholders and improve highway road weather operations.
Register for the webinar series here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NRQk5_bERW2mFC2z0Pi4jA.
All past Road Weather Spotlight Series webinars can be found on the NOCoE YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQ9QOnhV4EsIfTw7N2Jwk_WxRBIcyU-L4
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Crash Responder Safety Week Planning Calls
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The Crash Responder Safety Week (CRSW) initiative, recognizing all traffic incident management (TIM) response communities, will take place this year from November 18-22, 2024. CRSW affords a unique opportunity for every Traffic Incident Management (TIM) community to make a difference individually and jointly for roadway safety during traffic incidents. TIM communities across the nation come together this week by teaching each other and the motoring public about our common goal and responsibility for safe, quick roadway clearance.
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TMS Emerging Topics Webinar Series
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This webinar series is part of Traffic Management Center Pooled Fund Study project to share information on traffic management system (TMS) emerging topics and an ongoing series focused on sharing information on emerging traffic management system (TMS) topics being co-sponsored by the National Operations Center of Excellence (NOCoE), Traffic Management Center Pooled Fund Study, and FHWA.
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Public Roads Magazine - Summer 2024
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Established in 1918, Public Roads is the premier quarterly magazine of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). Each issue covers the latest in highway research and development, innovation and technology, and program advancements that benefit the Nation and create safer, more resilient roadways and structures.
The Summer 2024 issue features an articles highlighting transportation visionary Garrett A. Morgan, How Modern Cybersecurity Supports and Enhances Transportation Systems, the Role and Benefits of Human Factors Research, and Smart Community Resource Center Serves as Key Information Hub.
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Active Transportation Infrastructure Investment Program
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Department of Transportation
DOT Federal Highway Administration
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This Notice of Funding Opportunity will result in the distribution of up to $44,550,000 for two different categories of grants: (1) Planning and Design Grants and (2) Construction Grants.
The Active Transportation Infrastructure Investment Program (ATIIP) projects will help improve the safety, efficiency, and reliability of active transportation networks and communities; improve connectivity between active transportation modes and public transportation; enhance the resiliency of on- and off-road active transportation infrastructure and help protect the environment; and improve quality of life in disadvantaged communities through the delivery of connected active transportation networks and expanded mobility opportunities.
The ATIIP grants will allow communities to identify, prioritize, and implement improvements to the largest barriers to safe, accessible, and equitable pedestrian and bicycle network connectivity through the development of infrastructure that will provide substantial additional opportunities for walking and bicycling. Eligible organizations will be able to create plans or implement active transportation networks that connect destinations within or between communities or create plans or implement an active transportation spine connecting two or more communities, metropolitan regions, or States. The ATIIP also provides an opportunity for eligible organizations to enhance their overall transportation network by integrating active transportation facilities with transit services, where available, to improve access to public transportation.
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About the National Operations Center of Excellence (NOCoE)
NOCoE provides services to the transportation systems management and operations (TSMO) community to saves lives, improve travel times, and enhance economic vitality. With an emphasis on workforce development, NOCoE aims to assist in the deployment of technologies and the mainstreaming of TSMO solutions by fostering education, networking, communication, and knowledge transfer.
For more information, please visit www.transportationops.org.
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