LTAP Program
The PennDOT Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) is part of a national initiative to transfer transportation technology through training, technical assistance, and other customer services to municipal elected officials and their staff. The Southern Alleghenies Planning and Development Commission (SAP&DC) assists PennDOT in facilitating the LTAP program locally. SAP&DC conducts the LTAP for the RPO counties of Bedford, Fulton, Huntingdon, and Somerset. The SAP&DC also coordinates with the Cambria County Planning Commission and the Blair County Planning Commission to administer the LTAP in the Johnstown and Altoona MPO areas.
Through LTAP, SAP&DC reaches out to municipal governments to help better educate municipal workers on how to improve a variety of their transportation activities, thus increasing the regional municipal capacity in maintaining the transportation system. A good, sound transportation roadway network is only possible if our local roads are maintained. The education of municipal workers on new technologies and methodologies through LTAP trainings is the best way to ensure local roads are maintained.
2010 LTAP Spring Training Schedule
The following LTAP courses are being offered in the spring of 2010:
· March 11, 2010 – Bridge Maintenance & Inspection – Altoona
· March 17, 2010 – Unpaved and Gravel Roads – Bedford
· March 24, 2010 – Spring Maintenance - Bedford
· March 30, 2010 – Traffic Signals: Installation & Maintenance – Altoona
· April 8, 2010 – Drainage: The Key to Roads that Last – Ebensburg
· May 21, 2010 – Roadside Vegetation – Bedford