The
Transportation and Civil Engineering (TRAC) Program is the hands-on
education program of the American Association of State Highway and
Transportation Officials (AASHTO). TRAC is made available to
secondary schools (high schools and junior high schools) through regional
centers where the Department of Transportation (DOT's) work in partnership
with other government organizations, universities, non-profit
organizations, and private industry. At it's most basic level, TRAC
is a program designed for integration into science, math, and social
studies classes.
In actual
practice, TRAC sends volunteer Transportation professionals into
secondary schools with TRAC PAC. This consists of a computer,
electronic data collection and analysis instruments, hands-on modeling
materials, and more than three dozen activities based on real-world
transportation problem