2012 PASER Trainings

2012 PASER Trainings:

Each year the Michigan Transportation Asset Management Council (TAMC) requires road owning agencies to collect and report PASER data on the federal aid eligible road network during their annual data collection event.  Agency staff are required to attend PASER training according to the TAMC training policy.  This policy is included on the bottom of page 2 of the TAMC Training and rater certification policy.

Paser Training and Certification Policy

All-Day Training Session:

This training covers the material from both the onsite and webinar training sessions.
The training session will take place from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM

June 7, 2012             Mt Pleasant, MI - Comfort Inn & Suites Hotel and Conference Center

Onsite sessions:

All sessions are from 8:00AM - 12:00PM. Registration starts at 7:30AM.

Certification Testing is from 1:00PM - 3:00PM for eligible candidates (information about eligibility will be added soon).

February 28, 2012    West Branch - Quality Inn
February 29, 2012    Saginaw - Horizon's Conference Center
March 1, 2012          Grand Rapids - Holiday Inn Downtown

March 27, 2012        Kalamazoo - Kalamazoo CRC
March 28, 2012        Lansing - LCC-West Campus-M-TEC
March 29, 2012        Dearborn - Henry Ford Community College-M-TEC

April 17, 2012          Gaylord - Knights of Columbus Hall
April 18, 2012          Escanaba - Delta CRC
April 19, 2012          Ishpeming - Country Village Banquet & Conference Center

Webinar sessions:

Tuesday February 21, 2012     9:00AM - 11:30AM
Thursday February 23, 2012    1:00PM - 3:30PM
Wednesday, March 14, 2012    9:00AM - 11:30AM
Thursday, April 12, 2012         1:00PM - 3:30PM

Rater Certification:

TAMC has instituted a testing and certification program for PASER data collectors who attended TAMC PASER training and collected PASER data for multiple years.  The certification allows experienced raters to opt out of training in future years.  To become certified, qualified raters must pass an exam which will be administered after the on-site PASER training sessions.  Raters seeking certification must attend an on-site PASER training during 2012. The TAMC Training and rater certification policy is located here:

Paser Training and Certification Policy

Raters who are eligible for the certification exam will receive a notification email.

All eligible raters wishing to take the PASER certification test MUST pre-register at least two weeks in advance of their testing date.  If you have not received notification two weeks prior to the start of PASER training and you believe you meet the certification criteria please contact the Center for Technology and Training (CTT)  at 906-487-2102 or ctt@mtu.edu. Please note that the certification exame will not be available for the all-day training session

Raters who are eligible to take the certification test are not required to attend the PASER web based training on distress identification. However, it may be helpful as a refresher as this material will be included on the certification test.