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CITE and FHWA Introduce New Blended Course: Improving Highway Safety with ITS
The Consortium for ITS Training and Education (CITE) and the FHWA Office of Safety have released an interactive web-based course on "Improving Highway Safety with ITS." This course aims to increase awareness of the benefits to be gained through the deployment of ITS for highway safety applications.
This blended course is designed to assist professionals in both the highway safety and ITS communities. Participants may be planners, operators, designers, or maintenance personnel. These may be for example, the employees of, or contractors for, State departments of transportation, metropolitan planning organizations, and city and county agencies. The course activities will draw on attendee's experience, expectations, and contributions. Because an underlying objective is to foster cooperation among the Safety and ITS communities, it is critical that both be well represented during the course offering. This blended version of the course has the same content as the NHI classroom version, only it is converted to an on-line format and the participant activities had to be modified to fit this type of course presentation. A complete outline of the course can be found on the CITE web site.
CITE eliminates the inconvenience of attending courses away from the office by providing courses through an interactive web-based format. All of CITE's courses are accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The courses provide student interactivity through a stimulating mix of participatory activities, such as self-study quizzes, exercises or problems, and drag-and-drop pages. These activities help support and reinforce the text-based information and keep students engaged and active in the learning process.
'A "blended" course combines the best features of both instructor-led and web-based instruction. These features include:
- Live discussions with the instructor through the use of conference calls,
- Convenient, flexible web-based learning,
- A specific time schedule in which to complete the course, and
- Interaction with other students through the use of class workshops posted on a discussion board.
The instructor for this blended course is Dr. Emily Parkany, P.E., PTOE, a Principal Transportation Engineer at Noblis in Washington, DC. Emily's PhD is from the University of California, Irvine, where she studied Transportation Science. She also has degrees from MIT and Columbia University. Prior to joining Noblis, she was an assistant professor of civil engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and at Villanova University.
This blended course begins on May 2nd and continues through June 23, 2008. The fee for the course is $250 and students can register by going to the CITE web site.
For more information, please contact Denise Twisdale, mztwiz@umd.edu or 301-403-4592.
Related links:
- CITE web site
- Improving Highway Safety with ITS - CITE web site
