Montana State’s WTI awarded $6.4 million by federal Transportation Department for workforce development
MSU News Service; Skip Anderson October 30, 2024 BOZEMAN — The U.S. Department of Transportation has awarded the Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University a grant to assist workforce development in the railway sector across the state of Montana. The $6.4 million grant is part of an infrastructure initiative funded by the DOT’s Federal […]
Cutting-Edge Technology and Practical Solutions for Rural ITS Challenges: Highlights from the 19th Annual Western States Forum
The 19th Western States Rural Transportation Technology Implementers Forum (the Western States Forum or WSF), held in June in Yreka, California, focused on advancing Rural ITS and highlighted implementation of cutting-edge technology and projects. Tailored to engineers and technicians, the Forum was an opportunity to share in-depth, technical solutions to rural transportation challenges. Trust is […]
Professional Capacity Building for Communications Project Made Lasting Impact
Students from Caltrans Districts 6 and 10 work on a design for retrofitting an existing 15-year-old Class 1 TMC data center into a Class 3 data center as the final lab exercise in the Small Data Center Design, Structured Cabling, and Grounding training course. Photo: Leann Koon. Instructor Eric Pearson explains how to complete a […]
Week-long Summer Camp Introduces Kids to Transportation Planning
In August, twenty-four Montana middle school students participated in WTI’s weeklong Summer Transportation Camp, held at Salish Kootenai College (SKC) in Pablo, Montana. The camp introduced participants to a wide range of transportation and STEM topics. Students were able to pick out a bike from Free Cycle bike kitchen in Missoula, which they used to […]
18th Annual Western States Forum a Success
The Western States Rural Transportation Technology Implementers Forum(the Western States Forum or WSF) continued the tradition of success at its 18th annual event in June. Designed to share rural transportation solutions that have been deployed in the field, the Forum featured seven technical presentations and demonstrations and provided a variety of networking and discussion opportunities […]
Montana LTAP Hits the Ground Running
Montana LTAP has been hitting the roads hard this summer. Director Matt Ulberg and Field Trainer Shawna Page have conducted a variety of trainings in Lewistown, Miles City, Bozeman, Sidney, Billings, Boulder, Kalispell, and Cutbank to name a few. They’ve also hosted classes at four Montana colleges, on the Rocky Boy, North Cheyenne, Crow, and […]
2023 National Transportation Summer Camp
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Professional Capacity Building (PCB) Academic Support By The West Region Transportation Workforce Center (WRTWC)
Advancing Gender Equity in the DOT Workforce
WTI Part of $2.25M Tribal Transport Effort
As part of a consortium that was recently awarded up to $2.25 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation, WTI will provide transportation outreach and technical assistance to tribes across the Upper Great Plains and Intermountain West through the Tribal Technical Assistance Program (TTAP). Led by the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota […]