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Course:

NHI - Transportation and Land Use

NHI Course Number:

151043

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General Information

Summary:
The training is designed to help practitioners develop a multimodal transportation system that supports desired land uses and helps them shape land uses to support the transportation system. Course lessons include the principles of transportation and land use; the processes through which transportation and land use issues can be jointly addressed; and implementation steps to ensure that transportation and land use systems are designed in a compatible, mutually supportive manner.

Learning Outcomes:
1. Explain how transportation decisions affect land use, growth patterns and related community impacts on both regional and local scales.
2. Explain how land use patterns affect peoples' travel patterns and the overall performance of the transportation system.
3. Describe the various transportation planning processes, including statewide planning, metropolitan planning, corridor planning/alternatives analysis, the NEPA process, subarea planning, and project development, and how land use considerations can be integrated into these processes.
4. Describe local comprehensive planning and land use regulatory activities can support local and regional transportation objectives.
5. Identify the full range of stakeholders including public agencies, private and nonprofit organizations, and the general public, who should be involved in transportation and land use planning and decisionmaking, and describe methods for involving these stakeholders.
6. Describe methods that are available for implementing coordinated transportation and land use strategies.
7. Identify analytical tools that are available for measuring and forecasting the impacts of transportation and land use decisions.

Teaching Method:
Instructor Lead

Target Audience:
Mid-level State DOT employees, City and County engineers & planners, MPO staff, transit operators, resource agency staff.

Final Exam:
Yes



Continuing Education Credits


National Highway Institute
CEHs
Classes
After
 
CEUs
Classes
After
 
PDHs
Classes
After
 
NHI:
1.80
06/11/09
 

Awarding continuing education credits (PDH/CEU/CEH) to a training course or other training event does not imply or guarantee that the training course/event is approved by the Pennsylvania State Registration Board of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Land Surveyors.

According to Pennsylvania Act 25, “Credit determination for activities…shall be the responsibility of the licensee.  Continuing professional competency obtained by a licensee should maintain, improve or expand skills or knowledge obtained prior to initial licensure, including law and ethics applicable to the profession, or develop new and relevant skills and knowledge.”

For informational purposes only:1 CEU is equal to 10 hours of instruction
1 CEH is equal to 1 hour of instruction



Course Contact Information

                    For technical questions regarding this course, contact the following...
Name:
Rich D Stirling
Phone:
(717) 783-3721
Fax:
(717) 214-0807
Email:
ristirling@state.pa.us

                    For general questions about the Training Calendar (such as those regarding schedules,
                    locations, instructors or registrations), see Contact Information in specific classes.

 
Created
Last Modified
By Catherine T Shoemaker/PennDOT
On 06/10/09 At 03:59 PM
By Kate Kohan/PennDOT
On 05/05/15 At 11:26 AM