Local Training & Assistance Program (LTAP)

Upcoming Webinars, Workshops, and Grants

July 15 Webinar: Rural Road Safety Awareness Week 2025 Part 1 Tuesday, July 15, 2025 at 9:00 am to 11:00 am AKST In celebration of this year’s Rural Road Safety Awareness Week (#RRSAW2025) campaign, Post Crash Care: Big League Safety, we will host a two-part webinar series on post-crash care and how you can play a role in saving lives. In this webinar (part 1), you will learn about: Why post-crash care is crucial; the challenges in a rural environment; and EMS as an essential service. Noteworthy practices in Georgia, such as the Super Speeder Law and the Stop the Bleed Program. The findings from a recent study in Minnesota on distance to ambulance staging and access to trauma centers post-crash. The importance of whole blood programs and lessons learned from the first statewide program in Delaware. Webinar Registration
July 15 Webinar: Traffic Signal Plan Review Tips Tuesday, July 15, 2025 at 10:00 am to 11:00 am AKST This webinar will provide transportation professionals with a practical and detailed walkthrough of traffic signal plan review. Participants will gain insight into overall signal design and components of a plan sheet, signal phasing sequence diagrams, signal wiring diagrams, ITS components, detector and stop bar placement, head alignment, pedestrian accommodations and more. The webinar will incorporate real-world examples and practical checklists to support consistent, high-quality reviews. This training is ideal for agency staff, consultants, and engineers involved in traffic signal design, operations, or plan approval processes. Webinar Registration
July 16 Webinar: Research in Action - Perspectives from Minnesota's Traffic Safety Research Ecosystem Wednesday, July 16, 2025 at 10:00 am to 11:00 am AKST Join Minnesota Towards Zero Deaths as their very own “Roads” Scholars share more about their recent traffic safety research. Presenters from the University of Minnesota and Minnesota Department of Transportation (MnDOT) will share findings from recent projects and talk about the collaborations that drive traffic safety research throughout Minnesota. Webinar Registration
July 16 Webinar: Understanding the Bike-Train Connection - Best Practices & How to Collect Data on Experiences Wednesday, July 16, 2025 at 11:00 am to 12:00 pm AKST When careful thought is put into their integration, cycling and high quality public transportation together present a practical alternative to car ownership. In this webinar we share best practices from a leading case of bike-train integration (the Netherlands), and on-the-ground data collection techniques from an emerging case (in Southern California) to provide attendees the means to bridge a documented global success with their local context. In presenting the latter case, we give special attention to data collection methods that capture and communicate experiences from the perspective of the bike-train user. Out of the 1.1 million daily train passengers in the Netherlands, 47% of them arrive at the train station by bicycle. Synergies between the modes continue to feed each other’s growth, a phenomenon increasingly documented by Dutch research. We share these synergies and compare and contrast the Dutch system to the North American context. Then, we introduce an open toolkit of experiential data collection methods, and report on their use in Encinitas, California- a small city of 62,000 residents with one of eight stations on the 41-mile COASTER commuter rail that connects the north coastal part of the San Diego metro area to Downtown San Diego. Webinar Registration
July 17 Webinar: Changemakers - How Your Story Makes an Impact Thursday, July 17, 2025 at 8:00 am to 9:00 am AKST One important way to advocate for trails, walking and biking, is to effectively tell decision makers how and why trails, walking and biking matter to you and your community. Storytelling is a vital piece of advocacy, and we want to empower you, RTC’s Changemakers for Trails, to share your stories in ways that resonate with decision makers. Webinar Registration
July 17 Activating Organizational Change to Build Agency Capabilities Thursday, July 17, 2025 at 8:00 am to 9:30 am AKST This webinar is sponsored by TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program. Transportation agencies are operating in an era of rapid change, facing mounting pressures from workforce shifts, emerging technologies, and growing public and stakeholder expectations. TRB will host a webinar on Thursday, July 17, 2025 from 12:00 PM to 1:30 PM Eastern that will offer practical strategies to help agencies strengthen their internal capabilities and navigate evolving demands. Presenters will explore why building organizational capacity is more critical than ever, introduce tools and resources from the Advancing Capability-Based (ACB) guidance, and share real-world examples of how agencies are applying the ACB framework in practice. Attendees will gain actionable insights to support long-term success through strategic capability development. This webinar is based on NCHRP Project 20-24(95)A, "Ensuring Essential Capability for the Future Transportation Agency". The registration fee is $100 - Purchase a webinar package for discounted pricing. Complimentary registration is available to employees of TRB sponsors, including Alaska DOT, standing technical committee chairs, involved CRP panel members, tribal government employees, media representatives, congressional staff, and TRB or National Academies staff. Visit MyTRB.org for details. A recording will be sent to all registrants after the webinar. Webinar Registration
July 17 Webinar: Rural Road Safety Awareness Week 2025 Part 2 Thursday, July 17, 2025 at 9:00 am to 11:00 am AKST In celebration of this year’s Rural Road Safety Awareness Week (#RRSAW2025) campaign, Post Crash Care: Big League Safety, we will host a two-part webinar series on post-crash care and how you can play a role in saving lives. In this webinar (part 2), you will learn about: The impetus in creating a Post Crash Care/First Responder Liaison program. This Kansas Department of Transportation program is modeled after the Law Enforcement Liaison programs that have been popular throughout the nation. Noteworthy practices in Maine, such as high-speed internet on ambulances, digital alerting, collaborations for messaging on dynamic message signs, and analysis of their lights and sirens study. The need/importance of keeping first responders safe and stopping secondary crashes. The national Responder Safety Learning Network will share resources for traffic incident management training, and move over slow down public awareness. Unique County Traffic Safety Commissions in Wisconsin review fatality and serious injury crashes to identify trends and countermeasures to reduce the number of and severity of crashes in the future. Local stakeholders having near real-time access to crash data plays a critical role in this process. Webinar Registration
July 22 Webinar: Smart Roads, Small Towns - Advancing Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in Rural Communities Tuesday, July 22, 2025 at 11:00 am to 12:30 pm AKST Rural communities across the country are embracing Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) to enhance safety, mobility, and resilience. Join ITE for Smart Roads, Small Towns: Advancing ITS in Rural Communities, a focused webinar from the TSMO Council's Smart Communities Committee exploring how emerging technologies are being deployed beyond urban centers. This session will highlight real-world applications of ITS and Smart Community technologies in rural settings, including Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) solutions and Traffic Incident Management (TIM) tools tailored to the unique challenges of smaller towns and remote roadways. We’ll showcase examples such as V2X-enabled curve speed warnings, spot weather impact alerts, road closure notifications, and other innovations making rural travel, both on highways and local roads, safer and smarter. Via presentations and a panel discussion, this webinar will offer practical insights into how ITS is transforming rural infrastructure and delivering big-city benefits on small-town roads and highways. Webinar Registration
July 23 Webinar: The Case for Crash-Tested Hardware Wednesday, July 23, 2025 at 7:00 am to 8:30 am AKST Every year, millions of lives are lost or forever changed due to road traffic crashes—many of which are preventable. A significant portion of these fatalities result from vehicles leaving the roadway, especially in developing countries where infrastructure may be less forgiving. This webinar explores the critical role of crash-tested roadside hardware in reducing the human and economic toll of road crashes. Webinar Registration
July 23 Strategic Workforce Development Careers in Gear- Summer Series Wednesday, July 23, 2025 at 9:00 am to 10:30 am AKST Strategic Workforce Development (SWD) team invites you to the Careers in Gear Summer Series, highlighting innovative workforce initiatives and success stories from across the country. Supporting and advancing workforce development is what the EDC-7 SWD program does all year long and the EDC-7 Team is excited to share some of the standout programs, collaborative efforts with stakeholders, and people making an impact across the country. You’ll hear from the people who help keep the construction industry moving, from skilled trades professionals to program leaders. Each session offers real stories, practical strategies, and fresh ideas to help strengthen the American construction workforce and support the infrastructure of tomorrow. July 23rd: Training Success Stories August 6th: Fireside Chat on Youth Development Programs. Speakers include: • Dr. Karen E. Philbrick, Mineta Transportation Institute • Rich Granger, Workforce at DriveOhio • Dr. Stephanie Ivey, Southeast Transportation Workforce Center September 3rd: CDL Trainings That Work. Speakers announced soon! Webinar Registration
July 23 Traffic Incident Management in Work Zones: Training for Contractors and Field Engineers Wednesday, July 23, 2025 at 9:00 am to 11:00 am AKST University of Wisconsin–Madison: Work Zone Safety Grant Courses Free Course for Contractors and Field Engineers Description: This two-hour instructor-led webinar focuses on the best practices for prevention, response, and follow-up involving Work Zone Traffic Incident Management (WZ TIM). Dealing with a motor vehicle crash or similar incidents in a highway construction zone requires the combined skills of multiple personnel, including police, fire, emergency medical services (EMS), highway agency personnel, and contractor personnel. WZ TIM is more complicated than ordinary TIM because access to the incident site is often difficult, there is limited space for response operations, and multiple organizations need to be coordinated. Response can be hampered by the combined effect of incident traffic backups and construction closures. Who Should Attend: This workshop is directed toward first responders, contractors, and field engineers. Webinar Registration
July 23 Webinar: Talking Traffic Incident Management (TIM) Wednesday, July 23, 2025 at 9:30 am to 11:00 am AKST The Talking TIM webinar series provides a forum where TIM practitioners can exchange information about current practices, programs, and technologies. Each month, Talking TIM will highlight successful programs, identify best practices, and showcase technology that advances the profession. Webinar Registration
July 29 Webinar: Remote Sensing and Drone Tools for Rural Road Resilience Tuesday, July 29, 2025 at 7:00 am to 8:30 am AKST Low-volume roads in rural areas and developing countries are especially vulnerable to damage from increasingly intense storms. Rapidly assessing road conditions after severe weather events, designing them effectively, and managing them with accurate information can significantly improve their resilience and reduce life-cycle costs. TRB will host a webinar on Tuesday, July 29, 2025 from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM Eastern that will explore how remote sensing technologies can assist with road location, design, and condition assessments, particularly in remote and developing regions. Presenters will share how high-resolution imagery and digital elevation models derived from remote sensing can support resilient road maintenance, drainage design, and storm damage repairs. Webinar Registration
July 29 Webinar: Small Steps, Real Results - Scaling Up Vision Zero Tuesday, July 29, 2025 at 9:00 am to 10:00 am AKST Across the country, communities are advancing safe streets — not always through massive overhauls, but with focused, but impactful changes that deliver real safety improvements. Join us for a webinar showcasing how local leaders are putting proven strategies into action, from reducing speed limits and installing traffic calming features to redesigning intersections and fostering cross-agency collaboration. And while these local wins may not always grab national attention, but they do show that when and where we invest in safety, we see progress. We’ll explore examples of strong foundations laid through Vision Zero Action Plans, alongside real-world infrastructure changes that reflect the principles of the Safe System approach. Whether your community is just getting started or actively implementing Vision Zero, this session will offer practical tools and takeaways to help move from small steps to broader, systemic change. Webinar Registration
July 31 Webinar: Road Departure Crashes and Safety Countermeasures Pilot Webinar Thursday, July 31, 2025 at 8:00 am to 9:00 am AKST Road departure crashes—where a vehicle crosses an edge line, centerline, or otherwise leaves its travel lane—remain a leading cause of fatalities and serious injuries on Minnesota roads. 70% of these fatal and serious injuries in the state occur on rural two-lane roads, which comprise a significant portion of our local road network. This MnDOT webinar will discuss crash data and spotlight proven, infrastructure-based countermeasures that help reduce both the likelihood and severity of these crashes. It will also address and correct some common misconceptions. Topics will include rumble strips, enhanced signage, clear zones, and high-friction surface treatments, offering insights into what’s working across Minnesota and beyond. Webinar Registration
July 31 Webinar: AASHTO Bike Guide Series Part 2 - Design Principles of High-Comfort Bikeways Thursday, July 31, 2025 at 9:00 am to 10:00 am AKST In December 2024, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) published the fifth edition of its Guide for the Development of Bicycle Facilities, which provides guidelines for the planning, engineering, and design of bicycle facilities for a wide range of contexts. This webinar series will present details of the latest AASHTO Bike Guide, focusing on updates to the Guide and key considerations for transportation professionals involved in supporting, planning and developing connected networks for bicycling. Building on foundational knowledge from Part 1, this session will focus on the guide’s design recommendations for high-comfort bikeway facilities and their shared core design elements. Intersections will also be addressed in this webinar. Content highlights include: Basis of design elements such as sight distance and design speed. Design considerations for protected bike lanes, side paths, and shared use paths. Bicycle boulevard design. Webinar Registration
July 31 Traffic Incident Management in Work Zones: Training for Contractors and Field Engineers Thursday, July 31, 2025 at 9:00 am to 11:00 am AKST University of Wisconsin–Madison: Work Zone Safety Grant Courses Free Course for Contractors and Field Engineers Description: This two-hour instructor-led webinar focuses on the best practices for prevention, response, and follow-up involving Work Zone Traffic Incident Management (WZ TIM). Dealing with a motor vehicle crash or similar incidents in a highway construction zone requires the combined skills of multiple personnel, including police, fire, emergency medical services (EMS), highway agency personnel, and contractor personnel. WZ TIM is more complicated than ordinary TIM because access to the incident site is often difficult, there is limited space for response operations, and multiple organizations need to be coordinated. Response can be hampered by the combined effect of incident traffic backups and construction closures. Who Should Attend: This workshop is directed toward first responders, contractors, and field engineers. Webinar Registration
July 31 Pavement Design for Local Agencies Thursday, July 31, 2025 at 9:30 am to 11:30 am AKST Course Description: Does pavement thickness really affect the longevity of a pavement in a local setting? Absolutely! In this 2-hour webinar, you will learn the primary considerations for determining necessary pavement thickness so that the structure will adequately support traffic for years to come. PDHs available. Who should attend? County Judges, Mayors, planners, supervisors, decision makers Webinar Registration
August 6 Traffic Incident Management in Work Zones: Training for First Responders Wednesday, August 6, 2025 at 9:00 am to 11:00 am AKST University of Wisconsin–Madison: Work Zone Safety Grant Courses Free Course for First Responders Description: This two-hour instructor-led webinar focuses on the best practices for prevention, response, and follow-up involving Work Zone Traffic Incident Management (WZ TIM). Dealing with a motor vehicle crash or similar incidents in a highway construction zone requires the combined skills of multiple personnel, including police, fire, emergency medical services (EMS), highway agency personnel, and contractor personnel. WZ TIM is more complicated than ordinary TIM because access to the incident site is often difficult, there is limited space for response operations, and multiple organizations need to be coordinated. Response can be hampered by the combined effect of incident traffic backups and construction closures. Who Should Attend: This workshop is directed toward first responders, contractors, and field engineers. Webinar Registration
August 12 Traffic Incident Management in Work Zones: Training for First Responders Tuesday, August 12, 2025 at 9:00 am to 11:00 am AKST University of Wisconsin–Madison: Work Zone Safety Grant Courses Free Course for First Responders Description: This two-hour instructor-led webinar focuses on the best practices for prevention, response, and follow-up involving Work Zone Traffic Incident Management (WZ TIM). Dealing with a motor vehicle crash or similar incidents in a highway construction zone requires the combined skills of multiple personnel, including police, fire, emergency medical services (EMS), highway agency personnel, and contractor personnel. WZ TIM is more complicated than ordinary TIM because access to the incident site is often difficult, there is limited space for response operations, and multiple organizations need to be coordinated. Response can be hampered by the combined effect of incident traffic backups and construction closures. Who Should Attend: This workshop is directed toward first responders, contractors, and field engineers. Webinar Registration
October 28 Conference: Safe Routes to School Summit Tuesday, October 28, 2025 - Times are unavailable Date: October 28-30, 2025 Location: Online Cost: $99 (non-refundable) Organization: Safe Routes Partnership This three-day event will be filled with presentations and networking opportunities for Safe Routes practitioners, partners, and champions. For more information about this conference, click here. Workshop Registration
October 28 Conference: Vision Zero Cities 2025 Tuesday, October 28, 2025 - Times are unavailable Date: October 28-30, 2025 Location: New York, NY Organization: Transportation Alternatives The 12th annual Vision Zero Cities will convene global leaders dedicated to achieving Vision Zero. This gathering unites city officials, planners, engineers, advocates, scholars, and industry leaders to share insights, explore innovative strategies, and discover cutting-edge solutions for challenges facing our cities. Over three days, participants will engage in keynotes, in-depth breakouts, immersive field tours, and personalized networking, all geared towards advancing safer and fairer streets and public spaces. For more information about this conference, click here. Workshop Registration

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NHI - National Highway Institute: all web-based courses are now free. Many of these courses have been updated in the past 3 years to include current National Standards and interactive components. The NHI system maintains a record of your completed course for future reference.

AASHTO Technical Training Solutions: over 280 free classes to Alaska.gov employees. Create an account, choose the class, and the charges are zeroed at checkout. Local Transportation partners can contact dot.training@alaska.gov for a promo code that makes many courses free! The AASHTO system maintains a record of your completed course for future reference.

SOA Continuing Education Documentation for AELS

The continuing education program aims to maintain a continuing level of competency and standards for professional architects, engineers, land surveyors, and landscape architects to promote public health, safety, and welfare within this state.

More information can be found on the Alaska State Board of Registration for Architects, Engineers, and Land Surveyors webpage hosted by the Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development.

The State of Alaska Local Training & Assistance Program (LTAP)

provides professional development opportunities to local governments, consultants, and construction companies conducting work on behalf of the State of Alaska Department of Transportation. LTAP centers help local agencies improve their roads and bridges by supplying them with various training programs, technology updates, newsletters, and personalized technical assistance.

Working in partnership with our Municipal and Rural Planning Organizations (MPOs & RPOs) and Alaskan consultants and contractors who have active State of Alaska projects, we strive to provide up-to-date training on relevant training opportunities. The mission of the Alaska LTAP is to create a more effective and diverse workforce by giving informational opportunities to all transportation partners.

The State of Alaska LTAP Team

Cina Fisher is a lifelong Alaskan raised in North Pole, Alaska, and the Circle Hot Springs mining region. Cina believes accessible information empowers people to excel at their chosen professions. After serving in the US Army, Cina returned home to a career creating, coordinating, and delivering State and Federal training specific to Alaskans.

Cina's experience includes developing training programs for the US Census Bureau -Remote Alaska Division, the Alaska National Guard, the State of Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, and Alaskan small businesses. During the summer, Cina enjoys the Alaskan wilderness by fishing, hunting, or berry scavenging. Her winters are full of hockey games and seeking warm beaches!

Joshua Hyde has a combined experience of 10 years working with local and international interests in geology, mining, and tourism, along with asset protection in wildland firefighting for BLM, fleet management, and employee skill development. Joshua puts his energy in the office into sharing knowledge and information so that everyone can be sure their efforts are not in vain.

Outside the office, Joshua enjoys time on the rivers and banks of the great state of Alaska, hunting, fishing, camping, kayaking, and snow machining into the White Mountains during the winter and ice fishing whenever possible. Joshua began as Training Specialist for LTAP and T2 in March of 2023.