UC Berkeley, Institute of Transportation Studies, TechTransfer
TechTransfer is the California transportation community's source for training, continuing education, and professional development. We provide training in classrooms and online, including open enrollment and contracted training, host workshops and conferences, and can customize training to meet your needs. Our programs span the transportation-related areas of planning and policy, traffic engineering, project development, infrastructure design and maintenance, safety, environmental issues, complete streets, active and multimodal transportation, rail, and aviation. We serve more than 25,000 public and private transportation agency personnel working for our state's 476 cities, 58 counties, over 50 regional transportation planning agencies (MPOs, RTPAs, CTCs and CMAs). We hold over 80 events every year, attended by over 3,000 people.
Adaptive Traffic Control Systems
This newly updated online course offers a summary of fundamental principles, operational requirements and expected benefits of some of the frequently deployed Adaptive Traffic Control Systems. The first session presents various traffic control systems and general characteristics, market state, and evaluations of the ATCS along with other solutions ...
Airport Systems Planning and Design
The course is being offered in association with the National Center of Excellence for Aviation Operations Research (NEXTOR).
This week long course offers an overview of airport planning and design for those entering or wishing to become more familiar with the field, as well as an opportunity for those with more experience to expand their knowledge ...Asphalt Concrete Materials & Mix Design
This course presents information regarding asphalt mix components and their relation to performance, and takes participants through the asphalt mix design methodologies used by the State and local agencies in California. The course covers both Hveem and Superpave mix designs, as well as open-graded mix design. This is the primary overview course ...
Asphalt Pavement Preservation Treatments, Materials, Construction & Quality Assurance
Asphalt pavement is a major component of our transportation system. Transportation agencies at the city and county level can maximize the value of their huge investment in streets and roads by using proper pavement preservation strategies. This course provides a solid working knowledge of the most common asphalt pavement maintenance and preservation ...
Bikeway Facility and Master Planning
This course will orient participants within the bicycle planning discipline, familiarize them with tools and accepted practice, and connect them with essential planning, design, and policy resources. The course will cover concepts, practices, and policies employed by the most bicycle-friendly cities and useful to practitioners to transform an average ...
Bikeway Facility Design and Safety Improvement
This in-depth class on design of facilities for bicycling addresses both legacy facilities and innovative designs that are being developed within many communities at this time. This course will orient participants with fundamentals and details of bikeway design, ranging from application of traditional designs (bike routes, lanes, paths) to innovative ...
California MUTCD Overview and Updates
Are you aware that California adopted a new CA MUTCD standard (CA MUTCD 2014 Revision 8) on January 11, 2024. The revised CA MUTCD Rev 8 includes policy revisions addressing fourteen specific CTCDC recommendations to Caltrans since ...
California MUTCD Update Workshop
Are you aware that California adopted a new CA MUTCD standard (CA MUTCD 2019 Revision 4) in March, 2019. This affects how you do your daily work in transportation because it updates or changes the State's traffic control requirements?
Are ...
California Traffic Engineering License Exam Review
This twelve-session, live, online training course is intended to help traffic engineers prepare for the California Traffic Engineer exam to become a professional Traffic Engineer in California. The course includes a set of sample problems for each session with fully-developed solutions to give examinees more opportunity to hone in their test-taking ...
Complete Streets Planning and Design
Complete Streets are planned, designed, operated, and maintained to provide safe and comfortable travel for all users of all ages. Complete Streets provide for all modes of transportation, including pedestrians, bicyclists, transit vehicles, and motorists, as well as allow for emergency response, road maintenance, and goods movement. This course ...
