Role of the Contractor:
The contractor will develop and implement bicycle-friendly motorist trainings that will increase the knowledge base of CDOT fleet drivers (Maintenance personnel) and potentially other CDOT employees regarding the best and safest ways to share the road with people on bicycles.
Target Audience:
The target audience for the trainings is all CDOT Transportation Maintenance (TM) I, II, and III personnel. These positions include entry-level maintenance employees through patrol level foremen. Experience can range from newly-hired to employees with over 20 years of highway maintenance experience. Job functions are similar at each of the three levels, although the level II is a supervisory role and the level III is a first level manager. Job duties typically include snow removal and highway surface treatment, paving operations, guardrail maintenance and repair, providing traffic control, weed management, rockfall mitigation, wildlife and debris removal, to name a few. TM’s work in proximity to traffic, in extreme weather conditions. They drive and operate heavy equipment, such as tandem trucks, loaders, motor graders, and sweepers. All duties are to be performed with a safety consciousness/accountability and with a goal to provide exceptional internal and external customer service. All work is done on state highways. CDOT maintenance staff drive on these highways during most of their work hours, which is the reason they are the focus of this first phase of training.
(Depending on whether the training is held at the CDOT Maintenance Training Academy, some non-Maintenance CDOT employees might also be trained as part of this project. Please see Scenarios A and B below.)
The training will provide at least the following information:
- Why sharing the road is the safest alternative for both motorists and bicyclists.
- What's legal and what's not legal, for both motorists and bicyclists.
- Common crashes and how to avoid them.
- How to navigate bicycle related infrastructure such as: sharrows, bike boxes, and green lanes.
Classes will be approximately two hours in length and might include a table-top exercise.
The contractor will coordinate closely with the CDOT Maintenance Training Academy during design and development of the class material and in scheduling the classes. Personnel from the CDOT Maintenance Training Academy and the Project Manager from the Multimodal Planning Branch Bike/Ped/Scenic Byways Section must approve all class materials before they are posted electronically and used in training classes.
The contractor will assure that each participant of each class signs a sign-up sheet, providing their name, title, and e-mail address. The contractor will provide copies of completed sign-up sheets to CDOT.
The contractor will prepare and issue an electronic post-training test to all participants at the end of each class to test their understanding of the course material, as well as an electronic follow-up evaluation to be e-mailed to each participant two months following each class to gauge attitude/behavior changes. The contractor will prepare and issue a certificate to each participant who passes the test.
The contractor will provide CDOT with the results of the post-training surveys.
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