The ITS Professional Capacity Building (PCB) Program

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• The ITS Professional Capacity Building (PCB)
  Program

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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
• Training
• Education
• Technical Assistance
• Outreach
• Peer Exchange
• Others

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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.

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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

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ITS PCB Program Partners
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ITS PCB Program Content

• Four major program elements
• Training Building State-of-the-Art ITS Knowledge
  and Skills
• new course development
• course updates
• delivery and distance learning
• Education Creating the Transportation Workforce
  of the Future
• Technical Assistance Timely Problem Solving with
  a Network of Experts
• Information Outreach Information Where and When
  You Need It

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Training
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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

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Training The ITS Curriculum
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Additional Curricula

• Systems Engineering (SE) Series
• Standards
• Transit
• More?

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SE Serieshttp//www.pcb.its.dot.gov/brochures/ITS
_SE.htm
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Training

• An ITS Curriculum Guide
• An on-line engine tailors the
• ITS Curriculum to individual
• or agency needs and preferences
• www.pcb.its.dot.gov/CG.asp
• Pcbquestions_at_volpe.dot.gov

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Training Opportunities

• Catalogs Making training
• accessible lists PCB Program
• and partner training available
• around the Nation

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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

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Education
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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

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Technical Assistance
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Technical Assistance

• Technical Assistance Navigator
• Peer to Peer Matrix

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Information Outreach
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Information Outreach

• Right Information at Right Time
• Website
• Peer exchange and insight
• PCB state/local programs
• PCB Online

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Program Feedbackhttp//www.pcb.its.dot.gov/PCB_fe
edback.asp
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ITS PCB ProgramEnd 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

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Update on New Initiatives

• Core Learning
• Travel Management Courses
• Transit Courses
• ITS/CVO Courses
• Web-based Courses

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Transit Management

• Systems Engineering Applications in Transit
  Architecture Consistency workshop
• Later in 2003
• Updates to ITS Consistency Workshop
• Revisions this September

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Transit Management

• Transit Applications of ITS in Multimodal
  Planning
• Available later in 2003
• BRT course
• Recent pilot
• Available later in 2003

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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

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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

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T3 Program Feedbackhttp//www.pcb.its.dot.gov/T3/
form_feedbk.htm
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Conclusion

• Questions?
• www.pcb.its.dot.gov