Development of a Computer-Based Training (CBT) Course for theFSUTMS Comprehensive Modeling Workshop

FSUTMS training is a major activity of the Systems Planning Office of the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT). The training aims to establish and maintain quality assurance for consistent statewide modeling standards and provide up-to-date information on recent model enhancements. FSUTMS training workshops have been conducted mainly with a lead instructor in a computer laboratory setting at selected locations. The costs of conducting and attending these workshops are sizable for both FDOT and the participants. This inevitably creates a limiting effect on the workshop availability and participation. The objective of this project is to develop an online alternative of the live version of the FSUTMS Comprehensive Modeling Workshop. The workshop includes a total of 12 lessons. It provides an overview of the transportation planning process, travel demand forecasting methodologies, and FSUTMS modules and data requirements. It also covers hands-on experience on execution of the FSUTMS Powered by Cube software, interpretation and creation of standard output results, and creation and editing of networks. This report contains the complete voice-over scripts used in the online version of this workshop. The workshop is hosted on the FSUTMSonline web portal together with other FSUTMS online workshops, at this web address: http://www.fsutmsonline.net/online_training/index.html. Since the exercise component of this workshop is presented in streaming videos, the scripts presented in this report for the exercises at the end of each lesson are best used together with the videos.