ITS Education and Training Opportunities

USDOT PCB - Professional Capacity Building
The PCB program offers classes, webinars, and certificate programs, mainly thru CITE & ITE (below).
You can also view past T3 webinars from the T3 archive at your convenience. Free! 
http://www.pcb.its.dot.gov//Calendar.asp and http://www.pcb.its.dot.gov/res_t3_archive.asp

CITE - Consortium for ITS Education
CITE offers over 30 web-based and "blended" courses, plus three certificate programs. CEU's too!
http://www.citeconsortium.org/index.html

METRO - Signal Systems Training
Metro offers over a dozen classes on traffic signal operations and maintenance, in Los Angeles.
For course info and registration, see: http://www.metro.net/projects/signal-synch/

NHI - National Highway Institute 
NHI offers classes at locations around the country, plus webinars on new and topical subjects.
For classes: http://www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov/training/brows_catalog.aspx then select item #137 - ITS 
For webinars: http://www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov/about/realsolutions.aspx 

NTI - National Transit Institute
NTI offers several ITS-Transit classes nationwide, plus teleconference sessions and other resources.
http://www.ntionline.com/Courses.asp

ITE - Institute of Transportation Engineers 
ITE offers online courses, webinars, courses on CDROM, and certificate programs. 
http://www.ite.org/education/clearinghouse and http://www.ite.org/education/webinars.asp 
To receive course notices, subscribe to their e-newsletter:

UCB/TT - U.C. Berkeley Tech Transfer
UCB/TT offers classes at locations around California, plus online courses.
http://www.techtransfer.berkeley.edu/itstraining 
To receive course notices, subscribe at: https://registration.techtransfer.berkeley.edu/UserLogon.awp

TRB - Transportation Research Board
TRB offers webinars on various transportation topics, including ITS, plus a great e-newsletter.
Subscribe to e-newsletter or search archives at: http://trb.org/news/blurb_detail.asp?id=3946 .

ITS Southern California (a branch of the California Chapter if ITS America)
ITS SoCal conducts in-depth technical workshops on a variety of ITS topics every two months, 
usually as "brown-bag lunch," at various locations. Membership is not required to attend workshops. 
See: http://www.caats.org/index.php/meetings/events for Events Calendar, or send email to its-ca@hotmail.com 
The ITS-Calif. Annual Meeting will be in Berkeley on Nov. 15-16, 2009 (see www.itscalifornia.org ) 
Electronic Newsletters with ITS and Operations Content:

• Transportation Communications Newsletter. 
  Subscribe via e-mail to: TCNL-subscribe@googlegroups.com

• National Transportation Operations Coalition - "Talking Operations"
  http://www.ntoctalks.com/talkingops/index.cgi

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Libraries and Websites with ITS Materials:

• USDOT EDL (Electronic Document Library) - Contains thousands of ITS research studies, project reports, and other documents from across the nation - all available for free and immediate downloading. The search engine is a bit clunky, so be patient - it's worth it. See: http://www.its.dot.gov/library.htm

• USDOT ITS Joint Programs Office (JPO) Website
  Contains a broad overview of almost all ITS applications, plus links to many information resources that will be useful in planning and deployment of ITS projects. http://www.itsoverview.its.dot.gov/

• ITS Projects: Benefits, Costs, and Lessons Learned
  What are the benefits of specific types of ITS projects? http://www.itsbenefits.its.dot.gov/ 
  What are the costs of specific types of ITS projects? http://www.itscosts.its.dot.gov/ 
  What are the lessons learned about specific types of ITS projects? http://www.itslessons.its.dot.gov/

• Federal ITS Program - Overview 
  Describes the Federal ITS Program mission, organization, and major initiatives. http://www.its.dot.gov/its_overview.htm
  
• ITS Architecture Website 
  Info on National and Border ITS Architectures. http://www.its.dot.gov/arch/index.htm

• ITS Systems Engineering (S.E.) Publications
  S.E. Handbook - a good introduction. http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/seitsguide/index.htm
  S.E. Guidebook - a more comprehensive "how to" guide. http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/cadiv/segb/

• ITS Standards Website
  In-depth info on status and content of ITS standards. http://www.standards.its.dot.gov/

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT's Open Courseware allows you to download their course material free and teach yourself.
Go to: http://ocw.mit.edu then do a search for "Intelligent Transportation Systems"

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Please help expand this list! Send other resources to: Jesse.Glazer@dot.gov