Indiana Department of Transportation
INDOT Makes Learning More Accessible With a Bentley Training Subscription
The Indiana DOT can have new employees start training from day one.
The Indiana Department of Transportation’s mission is to plan, build, maintain, and operate a superior transportation system enhancing safety, mobility, and economic growth throughout the state. It has been using Bentley products to create road designs and drawings for more than 10 years.
Challenges
- The Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) conducted an organization-wide update of MicroStation and the MXROAD family of civil design products.
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- INDOT also executed a unification project to combine its many workspaces and Bentley products into a single custom environment that would benefit both the users and the support staff.
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Solution
- INDOT implemented a discipline-specific, task-specific, and workflow-oriented approach to
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- Staff attended Bentley Institute classes for version upgrades and for new employees with intense support for users at their workstations and on their projects immediately after classroom instruction.
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- INDOT held lunchtime seminars on software updates and workspace improvements.
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- The Bentley Institute provided training documentation to meet the needs of the department’s
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Results
- The INDOT staff has become more efficient through training from the Bentley Institute.
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- Modeling and visualization skills improved, resulting in improved design plan quality, fewer changes, and lower construction costs.
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- The training subscription saved INDOT thousands of dollars due to the unlimited amount of training
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- OnDemand eLearning allows new employees to start training immediately. After a week, most mastered the standard functionality, and some moved into advanced techniques.
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- OnDemand eLearning also lets department employees across the state attend training without the time and expenses associated with traveling to the central office.
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- When an INDOT employee transfers to another job within the department, that person does not have to learn a new CAD environment.
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