Training & Events Calendar
This calendar includes training opportunities and events offered by MnLTAP and our partners, as well as other transportation-related events.
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In‑person
Hybrid
Virtual
Full/Waitlist
February 2025
February 25, 2025
8:00am - 4:30pm
St. Cloud, MN
February 25, 2025
1:00pm - 4:15pm
This presentation will focus on the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) findings, inspection practices and asset management improvements, and lessons learned from the Fern Hollow Bridge collapse that occurred on January 28, 2022, within the City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The team will also provide an overview of the post collapse collaboration which occurred between the City of Pittsburgh and PennDOT to quickly rebuild the Fern Hollow Bridge.
February 26, 2025
8:00am - 4:30pm
St. Cloud, MN
February 27, 2025
11:00am - 12:00pm
Do you have a project idea for a Resilient Communities Project (RCP) partnership but still have some questions about the process? Attend this webinar to get them answered!
March 2025
March 4, 2025
1:00pm - 4:15pm
This session is intended to provide the audience with a high-level introduction into some relevant design and analysis considerations when dealing with Nonbuilding Structures.
March 6, 2025
12:00pm - 1:00pm
The third event in CTS's Freight 101 Webinar Series will explore how freight impacts aviation.
March 10, 2025
8:30am - 12:30pm
Willmar, MN
This training covers basic chainsaw safety, including identifying safety features, preventing accidents, correct saw chain sharpening, and head-to-toe safety protection in accordance with OSHA standards.
March 11 - 13, 2025
Shoreview, MN
This three-day class focuses on preliminary layout geometric design. Participants will draft preliminary layouts and demonstrate project-oriented geometric design concepts and operational and safety performance outcomes.
March 11, 2025
8:30am - 12:30pm
Owatonna, MN
This training covers basic chainsaw safety, including identifying safety features, preventing accidents, correct saw chain sharpening, and head-to-toe safety protection in accordance with OSHA standards.
March 12, 2025
8:00am - 12:00pm
Rosemount, MN
This training will teach crews to recognize and identify "field fixable" chainsaw problems.
March 13, 2025
8:00am - 4:30pm
Detroit Lakes, MN
March 13, 2025
8:30am - 12:30pm
Bemidji, MN
This training covers basic chainsaw safety, including identifying safety features, preventing accidents, correct saw chain sharpening, and head-to-toe safety protection in accordance with OSHA standards.
March 14, 2025
8:30am - 12:30pm
St. Cloud, MN
This training covers basic chainsaw safety, including identifying safety features, preventing accidents, correct saw chain sharpening, and head-to-toe safety protection in accordance with OSHA standards.
March 17, 2025
8:30am - 3:30pm
St. Cloud, MN
This workshop provides an overview of the available technology and tools that make implementing a pavement preservation program feasible.
March 19, 2025
9:00am - 3:30pm
Rochester, MN
This training promotes voluntary compliance to reduce damage to public roads and highways from overweight vehicles. Its goal is to teach you how to haul the most legal weight without violating truck-weight laws.
March 20, 2025
8:00am - 4:30pm
Grand Rapids, MN
March 20, 2025
9:00am - 3:30pm
Shoreview, MN
This training promotes voluntary compliance to reduce damage to public roads and highways from overweight vehicles. Its goal is to teach you how to haul the most legal weight without violating truck-weight laws.
March 20, 2025
10:00am - 11:00am
March 20, 2025
10:00am - 12:00pm
Duluth, MN
This two-hour seminar provides an overview of basic traffic control and safety procedures for short-term work zones.
March 21, 2025
10:00am - 12:00pm
Owatonna, MN
This two-hour seminar provides an overview of basic traffic control and safety procedures for short-term work zones.
March 24, 2025
10:00am - 12:00pm
Willmar, MN
This two-hour seminar provides an overview of basic traffic control and safety procedures for short-term work zones.
March 25 - 26, 2025
Shoreview, MN
This two-day class focuses on guardrail identification and inspection.
March 25, 2025
9:00am - 3:30pm
Grand Rapids, MN
This training promotes voluntary compliance to reduce damage to public roads and highways from overweight vehicles. Its goal is to teach you how to haul the most legal weight without violating truck-weight laws.
March 27, 2025
Freight 101 Webinar Series: Rail
Virtual
12:00pm - 1:00pm
This event, part of CTS's Freight 101 Webinar Series, will explore freight rail.
April 2025
April 1, 2025
10:00am - 12:00pm
St. Cloud, MN
This two-hour seminar provides an overview of basic traffic control and safety procedures for short-term work zones.
April 2, 2025
9:00am - 3:30pm
Mankato, MN
This training promotes voluntary compliance to reduce damage to public roads and highways from overweight vehicles. Its goal is to teach you how to haul the most legal weight without violating truck-weight laws.
April 3, 2025
8:30am - 3:30pm
Mankato, MN
This workshop provides an overview of the available technology and tools that make implementing a pavement preservation program feasible.
April 3, 2025
9:00am - 3:30pm
Inver Grove Heights, MN
This training promotes voluntary compliance to reduce damage to public roads and highways from overweight vehicles. Its goal is to teach you how to haul the most legal weight without violating truck-weight laws.
April 3, 2025
10:00am - 12:00pm
Rosemount, MN
This two-hour seminar provides an overview of basic traffic control and safety procedures for short-term work zones.
April 3, 2025
1:00pm - 2:00pm
This event, part of CTS's Freight 101 Webinar Series, will explore urban freight delivery and logistics.
April 8 - 9, 2025
Shoreview, MN
This two-day class focuses on guardrail identification and inspection.
April 8, 2025
9:00am - 3:30pm
Detroit Lakes, MN
This training promotes voluntary compliance to reduce damage to public roads and highways from overweight vehicles. Its goal is to teach you how to haul the most legal weight without violating truck-weight laws.
April 10, 2025
8:00am - 12:00pm
Subterranean work holds a unique set of dangers. To address these, this course provides a comprehensive, four-hour exploration into the key risks that trenches and excavations pose.
April 10, 2025
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Join experts from the Eno Center for Transportation, Transportation for America, and the National Association of City Transportation Officials as they explore the evolving landscape of federal transportation policy.
April 15, 2025
9:00am - 3:30pm
Duluth, MN
This training promotes voluntary compliance to reduce damage to public roads and highways from overweight vehicles. Its goal is to teach you how to haul the most legal weight without violating truck-weight laws.
April 16, 2025
9:00am - 3:00pm
This course relates to the delivery of maintenance and operations services to the public, commonly known as public works. It will identify the equipment and personnel resources needed for efficient and effective service delivery.
April 17, 2025
8:30am - 3:30pm
This workshop provides an overview of the available technology and tools that make implementing a pavement preservation program feasible.
April 17, 2025
9:00am - 3:00pm
This interactive workshop will teach practical, easy-to-understand, and fundamental methods to grow your leadership skills.
April 22 - 23, 2025
NRRA Pavement Conference
In‑person
Shoreview, MN
Learn about current and future pavement research at this annual conference.
April 22, 2025
9:00am - 3:30pm
St. Cloud, MN
This training promotes voluntary compliance to reduce damage to public roads and highways from overweight vehicles. Its goal is to teach you how to haul the most legal weight without violating truck-weight laws.
May 2025
May 1, 2025
Hazards in Roadway Construction: Preventing Runovers and Backovers, Overexertion, and Heat Hazards
Virtual
8:00am - 12:00pm
This four-hour course delves into the primary risks encountered in roadway construction, mainly focusing on preventing runovers and backovers, overexertion, and heat hazards.
May 11 - 15, 2025
Denver, CO
The fourteenth biennial ICOET conference and training will be held May 11–15 in Denver, CO. The 2025 conference will combine in-person and virtual programming and training. ICOET is the foremost interdisciplinary, inter-agency supported conference and training addressing the broad range of ecological issues related to transportation systems in all modes. It provides a venue for sharing information and for training across multiple disciplines related to transportation and ecology, suitable for DOT, academic, consultant, NGO and other scientists and practitioners.
May 29, 2025
8:00am - 3:30pm
Cloquet, MN
Join us for highlights of the latest practices, innovations, and research related to Minnesota’s roadway maintenance operations.
August 2025
August 5, 2025
2025 Salt Symposium
Virtual
The Salt Symposium is an annual event focused on understanding the concerns, research, solutions, and management of chloride use and innovation that can move us to a lower salt future to improve community sustainability and protect vital freshwater systems and infrastructure. It is a day-long virtual event bringing together professionals around the world to share their expertise on current research, planning, and initiatives surrounding chloride: including snow and ice management, low salt design, water softening, wastewater, and fertilizer.
October 2025
October 1 - 2, 2025
Fall Maintenance Expo
In‑person
St. Cloud, MN
This two-day event primarily addresses fall and winter transportation maintenance issues. Vendors and speakers present a variety of new equipment and information through an extensive indoor and outdoor display area. The annual snowplow "roadeo" allows individuals and pairs of competitors to compete on a closed course.