| Title | Filling the Pipeline: A milestone agreement for an urgent industry-wide partnership to attract and retain transportation workers |
| ShortDescription | An agreement emerged from the National Workforce Summit in May 2002, where all present transportation leaders signed 'A Partnership for Educating, Training, and Developing the Nation's Transportation Workforce'. The meeting's agenda was designed for sharing ideas and insights into the state of the transportation industry's workforce. |
| LongDescription | One of the most critical challenges to the future of the nation's transportation industry is finding and retaining a workforce with the necessary skill sets to keep America moving. The demographic reality is that a decreasing pool of skilled workers is available to an industry in transition. Competition for the limited number of skilled employees is increasing not only between public and private transportation sectors, but also with other technical professions. The new transportation reality is that the industry requires technical and managerial skills and abilities beyond its traditional engineering professional orientation. In addition to the anticipated loss of the industry's technical expertise over the next five years through retirements, data indicates that 40 to 50 percent of the transportation workforce will be eligible to retire in the next five to 15 years. The need is urgent to address workforce issues in a coordinated comprehensive manner. In recognition of this urgency, a group of 75 transportation leaders met in May 2002 at a National Workforce Summit to consider how the transportation community can address this increasingly complex workforce issue. Summit participants included representatives from more than 40 federal and state transportation agencies, academic institutions, industry labor unions, professional associations, and consulting firms. The meeting's agenda, designed for sharing ideas and insights, concluded with all present transportation leaders signing 'A Partnership for Educating, Training and Developing the Nation's Transportation Workforce' (see page 8). The agreement recognizes the critical importance of transportation to the nation and calls on the signatories to address workforce development effectively within their own organizations and support partnerships to improve transportation workforce development. The agreement also charges participants to promote a greater understanding of the contribution that an efficient, well-trained workforce makes to national security, U.S. economic growth and the quality of life for all Americans. |
| SourceAuthor | Martin, C. |
| Reference | Public Roads, Nov-Dec 2002 |
| Organization | Public Roads |
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