Transportation Technology Program

In cooperation with Mountwest Community and Technical College, RTI has assisted with the development of an Associate’s Degree in Transportation Technology Program, with the first courses offered Fall 2011.

The Transportation Technology program consists of an Associate’s Degrees specializing in: Management Technology with Information Technology and Occupational Technology options; Aviation Technology; Maritime Technology; Railway Technology; and Roadway Technology. This curriculum is designed to support an innovative lifelong learning philosophy of continuing education, by giving students the opportunity to advance a career throughout the Transportation Technology workforce.

In addition to academic credit, the program is designed to accept related credit equivalency from any academic, vocational or industry training program to include documented life-long learning skills, test-out exams, industry recognized certifications, and/or continuing education units (CEU’s).

Courses include:

TR 101 Introduction to Transportation

This course introduces students to the scope of major modes of transportation which includes waterways, railways, highway, oil and gas transmission, transit and trails.  Students will gain a historic perspective of the development of a transportation system in the United States as well as application activities to identify transportation contacts and career opportunities in their region.

TR 200 Transportation Law & Policy

Upon completion this course, students should be able to identify the steps a particular policy must go through to become a law and how various federal, state and local entities affect that process.  This is an introductory course examining the topics of transportation policy and public law.

TR 210  Transportation Economics

Transportation Economics is an applied area of economics that deals with the allocation of society’s scarce resources in the transport industry.  Research in transportation economics provides essential information to connect and move people, goods, and services quickly and efficiently. This course will provide students with an overview of the transportation system as well as basic concepts and tools for economic evaluation of transportation projects.  The course will cover a variety of topics such as government policies and issues of concern to transportation industry planners.  Students will develop an understanding of macroeconomic and microeconomics relating to freight and passenger transportation,  market structures, competition, pricing behaviors, socio-economic impacts of transportation projects and the relationship between transportation investment and regional economic development.

TR 220 Transportation Security

This course teaches students the concepts of risk management.  Using generic risk assessment tools students will conduct security assessments in their own environment and discover the specific security issues surrounding each mode of transportation and how the risk is mitigated.

TR 230 Transportation Geography

Transportation Geography is the study of the movement of people and commodities across the earth’s surface.  This course deals with the spatial interactions between people and places.  The theme for the course is transportation systems and the objective is to present a model of transportation systems with which to study the movement of people and commodities. Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to: describe the historical role of transportation in local, regional and national development; explain the influence that transportation has upon the built environment; and understand transportation-related problems within a regional and national context.

TR 250 Transportation Technology

The Transportation Technology Course is designed to guide the student into an understanding of how technology is used to solve transportation problems. The student examines various technologies and their application to different modes of transportation, including highway, water, air, rail and pipeline.  The course will introduce the student to the problem solving process, key enabling technologies, historical perspectives, and provide insight into how a technology and combinations of technologies act to solve transportation problems.