Target Audience:
- Transit management staff
- Project Managers
- Transit IT staff
- Transit ITS staff
- Transit Enterprise Architects and System Designers
- Process Improvement staff
- Asset Management staff
- Transit budgeting staff
- Transit planning, operations, and maintenance staff
- Metropolitan Organizations (MPOs) Staff/Decision Maker
Suggested Prerequisites: Introduction to ITS Transit Standards, Transit Management Standards, Parts 1 and 2 and Transit Communications Interface Profiles (TCIP), Part 1 of 2
https://www.pcb.its.dot.gov/stds_training.aspx
Learning Objectives:
- Define what an Enterprise Architecture (EA) is.
- Review the benefits to a transit organization of having an Enterprise Architecture (EA).
- Describe the general process for creating a transit Enterprise Architecture (EA).
Articulate how use of EA principles can benefit a transit agency.
Course Description: The use of Enterprise Architecture (EA) principles and tools provide managers and staff better visibility into the components of their organization and the overall relationships among their enterprise’s people, processes, applications, data and technology components. For example, by providing a system-wide view of aggregate transit ITS elements and their relationships, an EA supports better IT/ITS planning and operations, business process improvements, improved integration throughout the agency including data and systems, the consistent use of standards, and other benefits.
The purpose of Module 16 is to provide an introduction to Enterprise Architecture (EA) for transit managers and staff. It describes the four layers commonly seen in transit enterprise architectures: (1) the Business Architecture, (2) Data or Information Architecture, (3) Applications Architecture and (4) Technology Architecture. Potential architecture drivers, such as goals and standards are described along with their role. In an EA, the identification of connections between components in the different architecture layers and the architecture drivers, provide significant value to a transit agency. This module highlights a wide range of EA uses and benefits to a transit organization and its ITS efforts.
Instructor:
Nancy Neuerburg has over 33 years of experience providing strategic direction and technical assistance in the areas of information systems, research and technology development. She has a broad and deep knowledge of the transit enterprise from over 27 years of transit experience, which was gained from working both within a transit agency for 12 years and as consultant for transit agencies, FTA, and others, such as the National Transit Institute. Nancy was a senior transit manager for 12 years at King County Metro with responsibility for technology, strategic planning and research/evaluation projects in all business areas of transit.
Course Credit
1.5 PDH/pending 1.5 CM
To receive course credit, you must attend and participate in the web pilot and complete an evaluation survey immediately after the web pilot ends.