Institute for Transportation

About the research

The Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT) Modal Transportation Bureau Office of Public Transit requested a proposal from the Iowa Local Technical Assistance Program at the Institute for Transportation. The work plan in the proposal was asked to include several tasks focused on the provision of technical training to the public transit agencies in Iowa. The tasks documented in the work plan include the development and offering of three workshops on different subjects that will be offered either online or on-site. Two of the subjects have been identified by the Iowa DOT and a third will be selected from the responses to a training and/or technical assistance needs assessment that will also be completed as part of the project. The results of this assessment will be summarized and shared with a technical advisory committee for the selection process. As currently proposed, the third workshop will be offered on-site in Ames and the other two will be online.