Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP)
The Oklahoma Local Technical Assistance Program, LTAP, at Oklahoma State University is one of 51 LTAP Programs located throughout the United States. The Federal Highway Administration and the Oklahoma Department of Transportation fund the Oklahoma Local Technical Assistance Program. LTAP Programs provide training and technical assistance to government entities that plan, maintain and construct transportation systems at the local level.
For the first six years of LTAP’s operation in the 1980’s the program served primarily county governments in Oklahoma. Since 1989 LTAP class offerings have been available for all officials and personnel from county, municipal and tribal governments and consultants and contractors that work for these entities. All Oklahoma LTAP training is free to local governments, with the exception of our AASHTO/AWS Bridge Welding Certification, Mobile Air Conditioning Certification and the Pilot/Escort Certification.
2020 Summer Interns
Samiul Haque
University of Oklahoma
Urban Design
I am an international student from Bangladesh attending the Master of Urban Design program at OU-Tulsa. I am in my second year right now. This was my first summer as well as my first internship here in US. Several graduates from our program previously completed this internship and I heard about it from one of them. This year INCOG got two interns, was mainly assigned to work in the Tulsa Planning Office while the other intern was tagged with the Transportation department. Although both of us were involved in projects from various department of INCOG. My supervisor was Paulina Baeza, senior planner of the Tulsa Planning Office.
I have had several meetings for Plan 66, the RT 66 master plan update, and reviewed some part of the draft together with the planning team. Afterwards, I have composed the first three chapters of the document in InDesign.
The planning department are working on a toolkit to implement complete street concept in Tulsa, and I was assigned to compose a draft of the document based on their previous outline and future discussions. I went through City of Tulsa’s Complete Street Procedural Manual, Tulsa Multimodal Studies Presentation, a presentation on design standards and guidelines introducing the NACTO Urban Street Design Guide, AASHTO Greenbook, MMLOS studies. I have also looked at eight different complete street implementation guide for reference and made notes. I have created a graphic layout in InDesign for the document.
I was assigned to work on a historic mapping project in GIS by a senior planner. I learned how to generate a data in a GIS file creating shapes and entering data fields to them. I have completed the task of creating five historic boundaries of Tulsa in different time frame from 1892 to 1910.
I analyzed the pedestrian environment along the potential RT 66 BRT corridor. Using Google map, I looked at different elements of a road including sidewalk, streetlight, street trees, street furniture, traffic signal, crossing, intersection, ramp, any obstacles etc. Based on these elements each segment and intersection of a street were assigned a score to assess the overall street condition.
Grant Dickson
Oklahoma State University
Civil Engineering
Cole Roberts
Oklahoma State University
Civil Engineering
Garrett Willis
Oklahoma State University
Civil Engineering