Recommended Course Format and Structure
Throughout the day, a number of comments were heard regarding potential formats for the course. While FHWA may be limited to specific formats due to NHI requirements, these suggestions will remain under advisement:
- Begin the course with a big picture overview of the environmental issues involved with freight movement.
- Allow a group working on a project together to take the course together. They should walk away from the course with an action plan for their specific project.
- Hold two different courses: one for executives focusing mainly on a big picture overview, and one for practitioners.
- Create the course in a modular format, with modules oriented to either the public or the private sector. Both sectors could go through the same exercises, but would attend the course in separate sessions.
- Make the course area specific. The issues faced on one geographic area may be different from the issues faced in another area. The course should be customizable.
