Applying Instructional Design Practices to Evaluate and Improve the Roadway Characteristics Inventory (RCI) Training Curriculum

摘要

The Roadway Characteristics Inventory (RCI) is one of FDOT's largest databases, including over 2 million records. The RCI contains data for several hundred features and characteristics representing geometric, operational, and administrative data related to 24,000 miles of roads both on and off the State Highway System. RCI feature data are collected in FDOTs district offices, primarily by field technicians. FDOT's Transportation Statistics Office (TranStat) trains these technicians in both office- and field-based RCI methods. In this project, TranStat contracted with researchers at Florida State University to reinvent RCI training delivery, which had been conducted in a traditional classroom setting. TranStat was motivated by the need to find more cost-effective means of training because of budget issues and to develop more formally designed training to meet the needs of a job pool trending toward more diversity and less background.