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Best Practices for Road Weather Management Version 2.0

Title:

Training: The Key to Technology Implementation

Abstract:

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials established a pooled fund study to provide the necessary financial support to develop a national computer-based, anti-icing and road weather information system training program for state and local governments. Nearly all of the snow-belt states and the American Public Works Association (APWA) and the National Association of County Engineers (NACE) contributed to this pooled fund. The computer-based training (CBT) program developed to meet this need is fundamentally a menu-driven, hyper-linked, interactive, content manager. The user once logged in, can work through this stand alone training from beginning to end, like a book, returning to the menu at intervals, as desired, to select another path. The content is photographs, illustrations, text, video, charts, animation, interaction, narration and other means of communication. There are opportunities at various points to access the progress the user is making educationally, including quizzes, scenario-based problem cases, and exercises. The training can be individually administered or used in a group setting and can be the foundation for a certification program. Feedback from the state department of transportation maintenance personnel and trainers who are preparing their customization needs is the product exceeded their expectations. The CBT was easily installed on their computers and will fit well into their training program. The CBT will work well in either the group or individual training mode.

Source(s):

2003 Mid-Continent Transportation Research Symposium, Iowa DOT

Date: 2003

Author:

Smithson

Keywords:


Anti-icing/deicing
Road Weather Information System (RWIS)
Winter maintenance

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