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Training Course Development
Graduate-Level Engineering Course on Context Sensitive Solutions
CTE has been awarded a contract from the Federal Highway Administration to develop a
graduate course on context sensitive solutions (CSS) principles and practices for use
in civil and environmental engineering (CEE) graduate courses. CSS is a collaborative
process by which transportation agencies and stakeholders achieve solutions that integrate
transportation planning and project delivery with the natural environment and human communities
that support them. The CSS course will be developed by CTE and applied first at NC State
University's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering during the fall semester of 2006,
and then adapted for use at CEE programs nationwide. The CSS course will be supplemented with a Web-based network of human, informational, and
technological resources related to CSS and transportation. The overarching goal of the project
is to help career-track students and rising professionals develop a greater awareness of how
to plan and deliver transportation projects that support community values without compromising
safety, cost efficiency, and the integrity of the natural environment.
For more information, contact James
Martin, CTE associate director.
National Training Course on Community Impact Assessment
CTE is developing a national training course on community impact assessment (CIA) for the
Federal Highway Administration. After the course has been pilot tested at select locations
in the spring of 2005, it will be migrated to the National Highway Institute as part of NHI's
annual schedule of course offerings. The purpose of the course is to prepare transportation
professionals to incorporate and use the FHWA community impact assessment process in both
transportation planning and project development. The course will include numerous case studies
of CIA applications in urban and rural settings, and will address the following objectives:
- Identify the key steps in the CIA process.
- Collect, analyze, and develop solution options related to the following issue areas:
mobility, land use, sociocultural, sensory, displacement, and safety/emergency services.
- Engage in community outreach and participation strategies in order to support the
iterative nature of the CIA process.
- Maintain accurate and thorough project diaries.
- Create deliverables applicable to the CIA process (e.g., inventory report and map of
community characteristics, preliminary CIA report, and final CIA report).
- Define the benefits of the CIA process.
For more information, contact Leigh Lane,
CTE senior research associate.
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