| Title | Identification of the Critical Workforce Development Issues in the Transit Industry |
| ShortDescription | This digest summarizes workforce challenges facing the public transportation industry, approaches to address these challenges, and an agenda that the public transportation industry can use to move forward in workforce development. |
| LongDescription | This digest summarizes the findings from Transit Cooperative Research Program Project J-6/Task 38 'Identification of the Critical Workforce Development Issues in the Transit Industry', and Project J-6/Task 40, 'Identification of Practices, Techniques, and Strategies for Attracting and Retaining Employees in the Transit Industry'. American Public Transportation Association's Workforce Development Initiative is designed to address one of the public transportation industry's most critical problems: attracting and retaining a skilled, committed, and diverse workforce. As one of its first steps, the members of the initiative team asked the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) to fund a scoping study to identify the most important challenges that the transit industry faces in workforce development, current innovative approaches to workforce development on the part of both transit agencies and external benchmarks, the most useful products of the initiative for the transit industry, and the next steps that should be taken to help the industry address workforce development on an effective, ongoing basis. This digest presents the results of the scoping study. It is based on interviews with American Public Transportation Association members at large and small properties from across North America. The digest also reflects interviews with other key stakeholders and with benchmark industries that face similar workforce challenges. |
| SourceAuthor | Quatt Associates, Brian H. Vogel (Principal Investigator) |
| Reference | TCRP No. 45, December 2001 |
| Organization | Transit Cooperative Research Program; Federal Transit Administration |
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