摘要: |
The need for proactive and coordinated workforce development in the transportation sector has intensified with the impending retirement of hundreds of thousands of workers from the Baby Boom generation, and the changing nature of the work of transportation agencies at the federal, state and local levels and in the private sector. Meeting these demands will require a comprehensive, intermodal strategy that develops a workforce that represents our nation's diversity. This new workforce will need to create and maintain a sustainable, barrier-free, socially inclusive mobility system that reflects the U.S. Department of Transportation's (U.S. DOT's) goals for safety, livable communities, economic competitiveness, environmental sustainability, and organizational excellence. This effort has many prongs, including efforts to develop a National Transportation Workforce Development Strategy led by the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) and the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC). The development of the national strategy will include key national transportation and professional organizations, and is expected to result in a series of actions and recommendations for improved transportation workforce development. |