Call for Feedback: NOCoE 2016-2017 Business Plan
Since joining NOCoE as the Technical Services Manager in January 2016, I have had the great fortune to participate in a diversity of technical service offerings through the Center – from webinars and Knowledge Center content development, to peer exchanges and workshops (such as the Salt Lake City workshop on Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures in January, pictured below). I have witnessed the immense value that many of these services provide to practitioners in the TSMO community, and have received lots of great feedback from participants on how to make improvements for the future.
As the 2015-2016 NOCoE Technical Services Plan (TSP) comes to a close on June 30th, I and the rest of the NOCoE staff are hard at work on utilizing this feedback to refine our host of technical service offerings for 2016-2017. The coming year’s TSP will be part of a larger Business Plan document, and will include significant elements of practitioner outreach and engagement, in addition to strictly technical services. The intent of this strategy is to recognize that many technical services, such as the peer exchanges, also have a strong outreach and engagement element to them, and help to achieve NOCoE’s strategic goals of “accelerating deployment of techniques and technologies” by “bringing together the TSMO community”.
While the development of the 2016-2017 Business Plan (including the TSP) is well underway, I am always on the lookout for additional feedback and advice from the community. In the spirit of this endeavor, I strongly encourage those reading this to share any thoughts you have on how you would like to see NOCoE’s suite of technical services develop over the next 12 months. Many of you have previously submitted comments through individual webinar and workshop surveys, or else through our recently-completed listening sessions with CH2MHill. For those who have not yet had a chance to contribute, or for those who would like to make additional comments or suggestions, I encourage you to reach me directly at slavrenz@transportationops.org.