Education

Multiple STRIDE professors were willing to test out our course materials and provide feedback, allowing us to make the materials more usable for those with limited experience in the transit portion of our industry. — Kari Watkins, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology

It is very encouraging to see the increasing interest in education and training around pedestrian and bicycle issues. There is an immense need to better understand how to plan for, and operate facilities that serve current and potential users. As complete streets policies become commonplace, there will be even higher demand for understanding pedestrian and bicycle activity. Our modules are a step in serving this need. — Daniel Rodriguez, Ph.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Our STRIDE technology transfer project is helping several jurisdictions throughout the southeast both small and large to develop performance measures to guide their vision for how transportation investment can deliver solutions that support sustainable, livable communities. — Leigh Blackmon-Lane, Ph.D., North Carolina State University Collaboration in the field of sustainability is critical for educating DOTs, engineers and students, as well as advancing the state of the practice. The field of pavement engineering involves learning what it really means to be sustainable, and it will require everyone coming together to teach the next generation of engineers how to think in terms of sustainability. That’s why we spoke with various DOTs and brought in experts from across the country, such as Dr. Steve Muench from the University of Washington, to help educate students in our sustainable pavements course. — Richard J. Willis, Ph.D., Auburn University