History
The Transportation Operations Institute had its beginning in mid–year 2000. At this time, a meeting was held with the Commissioner of the NewYork State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT), several of his deputy commissioners, Mohawk Valley Community College President (MVCC) and several of his staff.
MVCC had, and continues to provide welding certification classes to all NYSDOT people requiring this training. The Commissioner inquired whether there were other transportation–related programs that could be provided by MVCC.
A joint meeting was held which included representatives from NYSDOT and MVCC. The team met for several weeks to develop a vision and mission statement, and strengths, weaknesses and opportunities to measure the success or failure of this program. Additionally, training courses that were applicable at the time were identified.
Several visits were made to talk to people at the policy level in NSDOT to get their input and approval.
As this project began to mature, it became apparent to all of us that we were developing a program that was needed and unique for municipal highway transportation.
We at MVCC are proud to continue our heritage of offering innovative, first of its kind courses, that provide occupational/technical training to all highway transportation municipalities and other agencies under the new Transportation Operations Institute at Mohawk Valley Community College.
