2009 Key Note Participating with AASHTO Trns∙port®

Sheri MeyerhoffIndiana Department of TransportationSeptember 27, 2009

Why participate with the AASHTO Trns∙port®

product?

Why Participate?

Give input to the direction of the AASHTO Trns·port®

product

Participate via Trns·port Users Group

Trns·port Users Group (TUG) gives an avenue to direct the course of the AASHTO Trns·port® product through a unified voice

How can we give input via the TUG?

•TUG Representatives and TAGs

•TUG Board

•Trns·port Task Force

•AASHTO

•Contractors

How can we give input via AASHTO?

•Participate with Technical Review teams (TRT’s)

•Apply for membership with the Trns·port Task Force

•Respond to the annual Member Satisfaction Survey

Why Participate?

Aid your agency with implementation and

maintenance of the AASHTO Trns·port® product

Aiding your agency

We affect many people’s every day lives with the Trns·port

product

Aiding your agency

How will AASHTO Trns·port® be implemented and maintained?

Questions… Questions…

•How does AASHTO Trns·port® match the business needs?

•Client – server or web based?

•Out of the box or customize?

And More Questions…

•Users issues

•Reporting of Information

•How to support the business rules?

•How to support new business concepts?

Could there be anyone out there dealing with the same issues?

Trns∙port Task Force/ AASHTO

•Demonstration of application via the vendor

•Visit with TTF/AASHTO

•TTF meeting minutes on Cloverleaf

Communication with other agencies

•Networking at the TUG meetings▫Annual Users Group meetings

▫TAG meeting

▫TUG Board TAG Coordinator meetings

•List Serves

Assist in obtaining avenues to communicate

•Host conferences

•TAG Coordinators and Assistant Coordinators

•TUG Board

Why Participate?

Grow as an individual

Grow as an individual

•Confidence

•Oral and presentation skills

•Team Building •Organization

Thank you!