TETP Insights Videos

Find Transportation Engineering Training on Learning Lane

Learning Lane is the one-stop shop website where CDOT employees can quickly access information and resources about training, certifications, and professional development opportunities for their position or role. This video explains how to navigate Learning Lane's engineering training webpages, utilize course descriptions spreadsheets, obtain certifications, and find training on specialized software training like Bluebeam, ArcGIS, OnBase, and OpenRoads Designer. Whether you're looking to strengthen your technical skills, pursue certifications like the Construction Inspector Certification, or dive into environmental training, this video will guide you through the process. 

2023 CDOT Roadway Design Guide

The 2023 CDOT Roadway Design Guide is a major revision to the existing 2018 Roadway Design Guide. It introduces new concepts to defining and implementing all modes of transportation, with guidance on how planners, engineers, and designers can exercise greater latitude when scoping and delivering projects throughout Colorado. To support the rollout and adoption of the new Roadway Design Guide, CDOT Design Area Engineer, Jerome Estes, has created a series of videos to provide Colorado practitioners with the latest guidance on multimodal design, context sensitive solutions, and performance-based practical design.

Presenter:
Jerome Estes, P.E.
Design Area Engineer
Division of Project Support

Advanced Geotechnical Methods of Exploration (A-GaME)

Every Day Counts 5 (EDC-5) is an Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) initiative to push new techniques and technology. Advanced Geotechnical Methods of Exploration (A-GaME) is one of the initiatives for EDC-5. 

Multiple DOTs sent in 2-3 minute videos to be shared as part of the Every Day Counts 5 (EDC-5) initiative. This presentation was part of a FHWA "lightning round" of presentations to show how CDOT has implemented A-GaME.

Presenter:
David Thomas, P.G., P.E.
Soils and Geotechnical Services Manager

Automated Flagger Assistance Devices (AFADs)

An Automated Flagger Assistance Device (AFAD) is a remotely operated traffic control device that allows one operator to direct and control traffic. In this video, Thomas Di Nardo describes the two types of AFADs approved by the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), explains how to utilize AFADs in traffic control zones, and analyzes the advantages and disadvantages of using AFADs.

Presenter:
Thomas Di Nardo, P.E.
Traffic Control, Standards, and Specification Services

Resources:

• CDOT Approved Products List

• Project Special Provisions

• Traffic and Safety Engineering Services

Bluebeam Studio Sessions

Bluebeam provides a versatile and robust environment for document review and markup that is supportive of plan review. In this video, Rob Beck demonstrates a step-by-step guide on how to set up Studio Sessions in Bluebeam. A Studio Session is one of Bluebeam’s many features that allows users to collaborate in real-time. This video also illustrates how to use Bluebeam’s Review Tools - learn how to create markups in Bluebeam and how to navigate the Comments and Markups Log that is generated anytime a markup is added.

Presenter:

Rob Beck, P.E.

Resident Engineer

Region 3

Construction Change Orders and Adobe Sign eSignatures

CDOT is changing the way construction project documents are managed. In this TETP Insights video, former CDOT Area Engineers examine what these changes are and why they are being implemented. They discuss when to use Adobe Sign in place of Adobe DC Pro, as well as available resources for learning to use Adobe Sign effectively. You’ll also learn what to discuss with the Construction Area Engineer before finalizing an agreement with the contractor, and what to do with a completed draft of a change order. Lastly, the Area Engineers explain how to archive change orders in ProjectWise.

Resources:

• Procedural Directive 21.1 - Requirements for the Retention of Records for Specified Design, Construction, Engineering, and Specialty Groups (Paper and Electronic)

• Procedural Directive 508.1 - Requirements for the Use of the Professional Engineer’s Seal

Design Bulletin for the Utility Conflict Matrix

The Utility Conflict Matrix, or UCM, is used to identify utility conflicts with new roadway design features and helps CDOT and utility companies determine cost-effective solutions to these conflicts. In this Insights video, CDOT's Utility Program Manager, Rob Martindale, explains what the UCM is, where to find it, how and when to document conflicts during the life of a project, and the benefits of using the UCM process to reach project completion.

Resources:

• Design Bulletin - Utility Conflict Matrix (UCM) - Utility Conflict List

• Utility Program Contacts

Presenter:
Rob Martindale
Railroad/Utility Program Manager

Downloading LiDAR Data from the Colorado Hazard Mapping and Risk Map Portal

In this TETP Insights video, Kalli Waller, a Certified Floodplain Manager and Project Engineer in the Region 4 Boulder Residency, showcases how to download LiDAR data from the Colorado Water Conservation Board’s Colorado Hazard Mapping and Risk Map Portal. This portal has valuable flood hazard information and LiDAR data, which is topography information gathered from remote sensing used for project planning, design, and delivery.

Presenter:
Kalli Waller
Project Engineer
Region 4 Boulder Residency

Introduction to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

NEPA, or the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 USC 4321-4335), promotes a national policy for protection of the environment and raises awareness of the importance of natural resources. The mission of CDOT's NEPA Program is to support CDOT's 5 Regions with the preparation of high quality National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) documents. The staff reviews statewide transportation projects to ensure compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and policies. They also develop guidance and provide training to help CDOT employees and contractors meet the requirements of NEPA. In this Insights series, CDOT's former NEPA Program Manager, David Singer, introduces NEPA and explores the NEPA Process in detail.

Resources:

• CDOT's NEPA Program

• CDOT NEPA Manual

• CDOT NEPA Tools

• Helpful NEPA Links

Presenter:
David Singer
Former Environmental Policy and Biological Resources Section Manager

Any questions about CDOT's NEPA Program should be directed to Troy Halouska, CDOT's current NEPA Program Specialist. 

Plan Reading and Interpretation

This 11-part TETP Insights video series is a recording of a Plan Reading Lunch and Learn hosted by Keith Wakefield, former CDOT Construction Area Engineer, and Eric Salemi, CDOT Region 4 Resident Engineer. In this series Keith and Eric discuss and answer questions related to items included in CDOT plan sets, such as the Title Sheet, Typical Sections, General Notes, Summary of Approximate Quantities (SAQ), Tabulations, Views, Symbols and Stationing, and more.

Presenters:
Eric Salemi

Resident Engineer

Region 4

Keith Wakefield
Former Construction Area Engineer
Region 1

PMWeb Project and Program Data - Preconstruction Essentials

CDOT is responsible for ensuring that Colorado’s highway system is safe and efficient by constructing and maintaining interstates, U.S. highways, and state highways. To manage its diverse range of state-wide highway projects—each varying in complexity, cost, and type—CDOT implemented PMWeb.

PMWeb is a web-based platform purpose-built for project delivery, enabling teams to collaborate transparently and in real time. CDOT is using PMWeb in the Preconstruction phase to track projects, milestones, schedules, and deliverables through Stage Gates, SAP integration, and more.

CDOT’s Program Reporting and Transparency Office (PRTO) has created a series of 10 videos that walk through the Preconstruction Essentials of using PMWeb.

Presenters:

Steven Griffin, P.E., C.F.M. and Maggie John

Program Reporting and Transparency Office

Resources:

PMWeb at CDOT

PMWeb Job Aids 

PMWeb Tips & Tricks Library

PMWeb Login

Risk and Resilience Excel Spreadsheet Tool

In this TETP Insights series Kalli Waller, CDOT PE and Certified Floodplain Manager (CFM), introduces CDOT’s Risk and Resiliency Spreadsheet tool. CDOT created the Risk and Resiliency Tool, also known as the R&R Tool, to determine benefit/cost ratios of different assets based on threat type, the likelihood of an event occurring, and the consequence to the owner and user. The tool is a quantitative risk assessment to estimate the potential loss to an asset from a given risk and calculate the reduction in risk or benefit to the asset for mitigating that risk. 

Presenter:
Kalli Waller, PE, CFM
Project Engineer
Region 4 Boulder Residency

Resources:

• CDOT Resilience Program Website

• Risk and Resilience Excel Spreadsheet Tool

• CDOT Detour Identification Tool

Transportation Demand Management

Transportation Demand Management (TDM) focuses on optimizing transportation networks by empowering travelers with choice in how they travel. From reimagining commute patterns to shared micromobility, cycling, and public transit, this video series highlights how TDM fosters efficiency, convenience, and sustainability at CDOT and throughout Colorado.

To help support the adoption of TDM strategies, Thomas Joyce and Reinaldo Maristany from CDOT’s Office of Innovative Mobility created a series of five videos to provide a general overview of the basics of TDM.

Presenters:
Thomas Joyce and Reinaldo Maristany
Project Coordinators
Office of Innovative Mobility

Resources:

• CDOT Office of Innovative Mobility

• Mobility Services TDM website

• U.S. DOT Discretionary Grants Dashboard