Of course, the travel budget for conducting on-site training is limited, but the first thing to do is ASK.  The squeaky wheel gets the grease.

Please send your training requests to Penelope Weinberger at AASHTO  pweinberger@aashto.org  She is coordinating the requests.  The 3 people who are doing the training are:  Penelope, Ed Christopher from FHWA Resource Center, and Liang Long from Cambridge Systematics.     For a 1.5 day workshop, or even a 1 day workshop, it is best to have 2 people as the trainers. 

If you are looking for a computer-based training course, you will need to find a host with a computer training room.  Often a State DOT has a training room that works.  All the computers need web access, since the 2006-2008 CTPP data are accessed via the web, and not using mail-out CD’s which we used for CTPP2000. 

After our first computer-based training session for this release of CTPP, 1.5 days was determined to be much better than a 1 day session.   That is why the sessions in California are 1.5 days. 

Elaine Murakami

FHWA Office of Planning

206-220-4460 (in Seattle)