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UAS for Element-Level Bridge Inspection Under the NBIS
Drones cut the cost and risk of bridge inspection access, but the 2022 National Bridge Inspection Standards decide which drone photographs can support a rating. The course maps where that line falls: FHWA's position on advanced inspection technology, why NSTM inspections stay ...
Depicting Subsurface Utilities in Highway Design Plans
Every highway plan set shows buried utilities, but few say how reliable any given line is. The gap between a drawn line and the pipe in the ground surfaces at bid time or in the trench. ASCE 38-22 addresses that gap with four utility quality levels, and the course explains wha...
Designing Highway Stormwater BMPs for TMDL and NPDES Compliance
Highway stormwater is regulated differently from site stormwater. A corridor has many outfalls, limited right of way, and a permit obligation that increasingly arrives as a TMDL wasteload allocation. This five-hour course covers how to design treatment practices that can actua...
Accessible Transit Stop Design Under PROWAG
Transit stops in the public right-of-way now fall under an enforceable federal accessibility standard. DOT adopted PROWAG on January 17, 2025, and it applies with no phase-in to any new construction or alteration after that date. Much of the work the rule now covers is small: ...
Urban Drainage Design: Pavement, Gutters, and Roadside Channels
This course covers the hydraulic design of roadway pavement drainage and roadside conveyance systems, drawing from Chapters 5 and 6 of FHWA's Urban Stormwater Management in the United States: Hydraulic Engineering Circular No. 22 (HEC-22), 4th Edition. The course addresses des...
Implementing and Operating UAS Programs for Transportation Agencies
This course covers the development and operation of uncrewed aircraft systems programs at transportation agencies. Topics include the FAA regulatory framework, UAS platform and sensor selection, mission planning, field data collection parameters, documented use cases and cost ...
AI for Automated Asphalt Pavement Distress Assessment from Vehicle-Mounted Imaging
This course examines artificial intelligence applications for automated asphalt pavement distress assessment. Topics include the federal regulatory context and distress taxonomy, data acquisition modalities including 2D and 3D imaging systems, computer vision architectures for...
AI for Transportation: Implementing Machine Learning from Pilot to Enterprise Scale
This course translates the ten-step roadmap for building machine learning capability at state departments of transportation. Topics include ML fundamentals, use case qualification, organizational readiness assessment, business case development, pilot planning and execution, ri...
Design Recommendations for Accessible Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
This course introduces engineers to design recommendations for accessible electric vehicle charging stations, drawing from the U.S. Access Board's Design Recommendations for Accessible Electric Vehicle Charging Stations technical assistance document. The course covers the regu...
Impacts of Automated Vehicles on Highway Infrastructure
This course draws on NCHRP research examining the potential impacts of automated vehicles on highway infrastructure across four categories — physical infrastructure, traffic control devices, TSMO and ITS systems, and urban multimodal infrastructure — from the perspective of in...
Supplementary Cementitious Materials (SCMs) in Modern Highway Construction
This course draws on the NCHRP Supplementary Cementitious Materials (SCMs) in Modern Highway Construction synthesis to examine how state DOTs specify and use SCMs in concrete pavements and structures. The course covers conventional SCMs (fly ash, slag cement, silica fume), nat...
Automated Machine Guidance in Heavy Civil Construction
This course covers the principles and applications of automated machine guidance (AMG) in heavy civil construction, drawing from FHWA's Automated Machine Guidance in Heavy Civil Construction (FHWA-HRT-16-031). Topics include 3D engineered model development, GNSS and total stat...
Structural Health Monitoring of Bridge Substructures
This course introduces structural health monitoring (SHM) techniques for bridge substructures, drawing from FHWA's research report Structural Health Monitoring of Bridge Substructures (FHWA-HRT-09-040). Topics include remote monitoring system components, sensor types for tempe...
Intro to Digital As-Builts in transportation design
This course introduces transportation agency professionals to Digital As-Builts (DABs) — data-rich, 3D geospatial models that replace traditional 2D paper and PDF as-built drawings. Drawing from FHWA's Getting Started with Digital As-Builts guide (FHWA-HIF-24-098), the course ...