ITS Trainings
The ITS PCB Program offers a comprehensive suite of trainings covering a range of topics from foundational concepts to emerging transportation technologies. Discover and take these free trainings to help enhance your ITS knowledge and skills.
For National Highway Institute (NHI) Trainings, the link will take you to the NHI catalog. From there, you can search for the course you're interested in.
web-based
its basics
FHWA-NHI-137050: ITS What, Why, and How
This training equips professionals responsible for ITS programs with an understanding of ITS capabilities, planning and procurement processes, operations management, and workforce needs for long-term success.
web-based
its basics
FHWA-NHI-137049: ITS Procurement
This training provides an overview of strategies for successfully deploying ITS projects that build on systems engineering principles and practices. It is focused on the procurement stage of the procurement stage of the acquisition process from identifying needs through contractor selection.
web-based
its basics
FHWA-NHI-137070: Improving Highway Safety with Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
This training provides public and private sector transportation practitioners with a contextual deep dive into the ITS technologies with the highest potential for safety benefits.
web-based
systems engineering
FHWA-NHI-137051: Systems Engineering Fundamentals for ITS
"Systems Engineering Fundamentals" is an 8-hour NHI course introducing ITS project staff to key systems engineering concepts and best practices like modeling, testing, and risk assessment.
multiple options
v2x
Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) Training
Participants are introduced to the key components that enable a V2X ecosystem, the potential benefits of the technology, and example use cases and the messages and standards supporting them while ensuring safety and privacy.
web-based
tsmo
FHWA-NHI-133128: Making the Business Case for Institutional, Organizational, and Procedural Changes for TSMO
This 1-hour course is designed to is designed to help practitioners from state and local agencies make a business case for transportation systems management & operations (TSMO).
web-based
tsmo
FHWA-NHI-133131: Planning for TSMO - Introduction
This training focuses on integrating TSMO into planning, covering performance-driven approaches, collaboration methods, and institutionalization strategies.
web-based
tsmo
FHWA-NHI-133132: Planning for TSMO - Concepts and Applications
This training builds on Course 1 (NHI-133131 Planning for TSMO) and covers integrating TSMO into transportation planning and implementing an objectives-driven performance-based approach.
web-based
tsmo
FHWA-NHI-133140: Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) 101
This training defines TSMO through contextual examples so that practitioners new to TSMO can develop a fundamental and real world understanding of it, how it relates to what they do, and what benefits can be realized through its use
web-based
tsmo
FHWA-NHI-133141: Understanding and Applying the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) to Advance TSMO Programs
This training provides TSMO champions with enough knowledge about the CMM to be able to understand how the CMM could support TSMO programs and how to conduct a self-assessment of their own organization and partner organization's capabilities to deliver TSMO
web-based
tsmo
FHWA-NHI-133142: Transportation Systems Management and Operations (TSMO) Benefit Cost Analysis (BCA)
The training prepares transportation planners, practitioners, and other transportation professionals for their involvement in TSMO BCA.
web-based
tsmo
Crowdsourcing for Operations Course as a Webinar Series
The "Crowdsourcing for Advancing Operations" webinar series provides insights from practitioners on using crowdsourced data to improve transportation operations.
web-based
rwm
FHWA-NHI-133072: Weather Responsive Traffic Management (WRTM)
This training provides information about basic principles and tools to help transportation system managers and operators effectively manage traffic flow and operations during adverse weather conditions.
web-based
rwm
FHWA-NHI-133073: Principles and Tools for Road Weather Management
This training provides transportation professionals in highway maintenance and/or highway operations with training to develop tools and strategies for addressing road weather problems.
web-based
rwm
FHWA-NHI-133074: Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS) Equipment and Operations
This training provides an overview of road weather information Systems (RWIS) and explores exercises to help participants develop action plans to addressing their road weather challenges.
web-based
tim
FHWA-NHI-133126A: National Traffic Incident Management Responder Training
This training covers Traffic Incident Management (TIM) recommended procedures and techniques, including: TIM Fundamentals and Terminology, Notification and Scene Size-Up, Safe Vehicle Positioning, Scene Safety, Command Responsibilities, Traffic Management, Special Circumstances, and Clearance and Termination.
web-based
cybersecurity
FHWA-NHI-137055: Transportation Cyber Security
This training is intended to help transportation professionals improve their understanding of transportation cyber security and offers the tools that are useful for learning more about cyber security and resilience.