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Value engineering, or value analysis, has been used by numerous state highway agencies since the early 1970s, but it has not been widely applied on a smaller scale by local agencies such as counties, municipalities, and townships. The purpose of this project, which was funded under the Rural Technical Assistance Program, is to develop training materials that will support the transfer of the value engineering technique to local highway agencies. In an attempt to ensure that the training materials produced in this project would be appropriate and responsive to local needs, they were developed in a series of four, 1 1/2-day workshop sessions held over a 4-month period. The project team provided instruction in value engineering principles, and two value engineering studies were conducted by nine persons from nine different local highway agencies. The participants' comments and questions about the instructional techniques and training materials were used to develop a new 1 1/2-day seminar for local highway agencies. Several months later, the participants and the researchers met again, in a day-long session, to review the revised materials, including a slide-tape presentation. The experience gained in the workshop proved to be valuable in clarifying for the researchers the needs of local highway personnel and in identifying the limited applicability of previously developed value engineering training materials.

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Local government agencies; Technology transfer; Training; Training devices; Value engineering; Workshops

Local agencies

Administration and Management; Education and Training; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; I10: Economics and Administration

TRIS, TRB

Aug 31 1987 12:00AM

• AN INSTITUTE FOR CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS OF STATE DEPARTMENTS OF TRANSPORTATION
• COOPERATIVE RESEARCH BETWEEN STATE HIGHWAY AGENCIES AND UNIVERSITIES
• NEW CONTENT FOR THE TRANSPORTATION PROFESSIONAL: THE UMTA-WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY TRANSPORTATION EDUCATION PROJECT (ABRIDGMENT)
• TRAINING NEEDS ANALYSIS FOR SENIOR MANAGERS: THE ASSESSMENT CENTER METHOD
• UNDERGRADUATE TRANSPORTATION ENGINEERING EDUCATION (ABRIDGMENT)