Previous Trainings

This web meeting will give local agencies a chance to speak firsthand to the people from TAMC who process and review asset management plans.

Get the best return on investment for all your assets. The Inventory-Based Rating (IBR) System™ allows you to individually prioritize categories, set up work plans, and create stability in your unpaved roads asset management. Required every three years.

This seminar is intended for any owner agency or their authorized representatives who are responsible for either the quality control, quality assurance, or the corresponding acceptance of any construction material item on MDOT Let contracts.

Join experts from MDOT, EGLE, DNR, USFWS, and Michigan’s local agencies as they share insights on infrastructure resiliency, environmental permitting, flood response, and innovative monitoring approaches.

Of all the available technology, how do you know what is right for your operation? AVL has almost become standard. Road weather information systems (RWIS) stations are popping up more frequently. Dashcams are being used to reduce liabilities. Telemetry is changing the way fleet departments process requests. How will your operators react to implementing dash cams and location tracking? In this webinar, we will discuss different options to collect and interpret data and how to better apply it to snow fighting, as well as to the customer service side of your operations.

Join us for an in-depth webinar on how to best utilize Thawcaster as another tool for deciding when to impose or remove spring load restrictions.

This 2-day virtual workshop covers methods to conduct inspection and condition assessment of the collection system and to develop targeted approaches to prioritize and plan future rehabilitation and replacement activities.

Get started with using the MERL Local Job Manager. Topics of this training include daily postings, pay estimates, contract modifications and reporting.

This training will teach attendees how to use the MERL Bid Utility tool to complete the following tasks: creating bid projects, entering bids, electronic bid submission, bid reporting and analysis, and managing vendors.

This class is a 2025 Waiver Valuation update for local agency projects with federal aid. It will explain when a Waiver Valuation may be used and will review the reports approved to be used under the new federal final rule (2024) and the MDOT Real Estate Procedure Manual (May 2025).