Local Technical Assistance Program

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The LTAP Mission is to foster a safe, efficient, environmentally sound transportation system by improving skills and knowledge of local transportation providers through training, technical assistance, and technology transfer.

What is LTAP?

Welcome to the Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) web page.

LTAP has provided technical assistance, training, and products to local transportation agencies in Georgia for 20 years. How and why did it come to be, and what should its mission be in the future? In the late 1970s, the United States Department of Transportation and state departments of transportation realized that although technical information had increased at the state level, 80 percent of the roads were under county or city jurisdictions, and technical innovation was not reaching the local level at the same rate.

In 1981, the original rural technical assistance mission was established with American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and federal appropriation. The pilot program was modeled after the historic agricultural extension system and included the creation of technology transfer (T²) centers to provide the link to local agencies. By 1985, the pilot program, known today as LTAP, was a success in large part because centers' abilities to adapt national training programs and services meet unique local needs.

The program grew, evolved, and created services and products to meet changing needs and technologies. LTAP T² centers have been established in every state and Puerto Rico. Urban areas became customers, and Tribal Centers serving Native American Tribal Governments have been added.

Georgia DOT's technical assistance program began in 1982 as a joint undertaking of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), GADOT and the Georgia Institute of Technology. It is a technical training, information and assistance program designed to bridge the gap between federal, state and local transportation professionals. The Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) is operated out of the Technology Transfer Center (T2).Georgia's LTAP stimulates active, progressive and cost-effective transfer of highway technology and technical assistance to rural and local governments through a variety of resources including on-site training, a videotape library, workshops, newsletters and manuals, much of which is made available at no charge to local governments.

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