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Driving Simulators as Educational Outreach for Freight Transportation

项目名称：	Driving Simulators as Educational Outreach for Freight Transportation
摘要：	The purpose of this project is to enhance outreach efforts for middle and high school student groups for freight career awareness by using truck driving simulators. There is a shortage of truck drivers across the US which contributes to inefficiency in the freight system. While there are many complex factors leading to the driver shortage, lack of awareness of the trucking profession is among them. Through engaging workforce outreach programs, it may be possible to attract a new generation to freight careers. Beneficially, commercial driving simulators are becoming increasingly affordable and thus more ubiquitous across university research programs and workforce training centers. This project seeks to leverage the popularity of driving simulators by using them as active and engaging learning and outreach tools for middle and high school students. The work will develop a complete learning module for a day-long outreach program (“camp”), implement the program, and make all lesson plans available for public dissemination. In this way, any university and/or workforce center with a driving simulator can use the lesson plans for their own outreach events.
状态：	Active
资金：	75000
资助组织：	Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
执行机构：	University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
开始时间：	20210816
预计完成日期：	20230630
主题领域：	Education and Training；Freight Transportation