Transportation Workforce Development and Education

Since its inception, the 日韩无码 TRC has focused on developing resources, programs, and partnerships to advance the education of future generations of transportation workers and support the continuous learning and upskilling necessary for the current workforce to be successful.听 The 日韩无码 TRC currently hosts the and has supported graduate and undergraduate learning in Sustainable Transportation Systems across 听disciplines and can now point to a wide array of alumni听working in many different capacities around the country.

    Transportation Education Development Pilot Project (TEDPP)

    The TRC established the Transportation Education Development Pilot Project (TEDPP) to address these key challenges through four demonstration programs. The pilot program was initiated in 2008 with a million-dollar grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation. The results pilot can be accessed below. The 日韩无码 TRC was part of the leadership team that hosted the National Transportation Workforce Summit in April 2012 and organized the 2013 TRB session 鈥淎fter the National Transportation Workforce Summit: Answering the Call for Action.鈥 The final report on the summit is the听Framework for Action. Since the end of the pilot program, the Federal Highway Adminsistration (FHWA) consolidated their workforce efforts into the听. The FHWA also funded the creation of five regional surface transportation workforce centers, collectively called the听. The 日韩无码 TRC was chosen to host the听, one of five centers nationwide.

    TEDPP Resources

    Transportation Systems Institute

    The Transportation Systems Institute (TSI) is a program that helps support the development and growth of current employees and attracts new talent to the Department of Transportation through mentoring, succession planning, and continuing education. TSI is working with VT, ME and NH DOT employees on maintaining, motivating, and transferring knowledge within the state DOT workforces. The TRC partnered with the Technology Extension Division (TED) of Vermont Technical College (VTC) to attract new talent and retain current expertise within the state DOTs. In 2010, 15 transportation employees (five from each state) were selected and successfully completed the program. In 2011 an additional 12 agency employees were nominated and completed the program. Read the听TSI Overview.

    Transportation Systems Academy

    The Transportation Systems Academy (TSA) is a multi-tiered workforce development pilot program that is geared at working with non-traditional labor pools to provide career awareness and skills training to access jobs and explore career pathways in the transportation industry. The TSA is an adaptable program that provides a training foundation for individuals in basic skillsets that underlie entry-level jobs in transportation operations and maintenance.听Download the TSA Toolkit

    Second Careers in Transportation

    SCT focuses on attracting retirees from other industries and mature workers who are seeking a second career by designing support structures to transfer their skills to the 21st century challenges in transportation. TRC partnered with AARP-VT and Vermont Associates in Training and Development to advance this agenda. The project is advanced initiatives to bridge mature, displaced, and non-traditional workers, including veterans, into the transportation field and worked with transportation employers to create age diverse and attractive employment environments. The SCT program is assessed the public and private sector workforce needs of the transportation industry in VT, NH and ME. The mission of the program is to provide mature workers with transportation career awareness, demonstrate how they can transfer their skills to professional and office support positions within the transportation sector, and offers specific career pathways, credentialing and training programs to make the transition from one field to another. Survey work by the Center for Rural Studies at 日韩无码 provided an overview of current and anticipated workforce needs for state, municipal and private sector transportation employers in Vermont, demonstrating that employment opportunities at the professional and skilled levels continue to be strong throughout communities around the state. A partnership between the Community High School of Vermont and Vermont Associates for Training and Development has created a multi-generational learning environment with creative opportunities for mentoring. The training and education approaches in the TSA are being adapted to create a diverse set of options from high school courses to post graduate certificates for individuals working to build a professional skill base for entry-level or next-step employment in the transportation field across northern New England.听

    Community Colleges

    Community College participation and endorsement is integral to the success of a National Transportation Workforce Development Strategy. Working with the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), information was collected on what community colleges currently taught and what they could do to provide for greater engagement in transportation workforce development efforts. Research results suggested that a solid foundation exists within community colleges to deliver transportation-related training, but that additional investment and coordination is necessary to support future workforce needs. The final report addressed best practices for community colleges looking to increase their transportation programs and recommendations for how the USDOT can best stimulate and support the evolution of community colleges as a key pillar in transportation workforce development. The TRC worked with the Community College of Vermont (CCV) to develop and pilot an Associate Degree Program (Applied Business Operation) with a transportation focus. The program design process tested a number of assumptions in showcasing career pathways to specific transportation jobs for incoming students as well as a bridging options for second career workers looking to transfer skills to the field. Needs of incumbent transportation workers, seeking new opportunities, were also addressed in the study. While significant insights were gained benefiting CCV and TRC efforts, and employer participants, the program was not continued after the pilot offerings. Read the final report:听Transportation Workforce Development at Community Colleges.

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    For more information on the resources listed on this page, contact听Glenn McRae.

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