摘要: |
As with any industry, the transportation industry has challenges that it faces in terms of having the best employees available to do needed work. The purpose of this report is to identify areas in which skill development is most important for employees, as well as key transportation careers in the Northeast Region of the U.S. that should be the focus of workforce development efforts in the next 10 years. However, while focusing on transportation workforce needs, it is also important to understand challenges that will be faced when looking to improve the workforce. Through the National Transportation Workforce Summit that was conducted in 2012 by the Council of University Transportation Centers (CUTC), four major challenges to the transportation workforce were discussed (CUTC, 2012). These challenges include: (1) Demographic changes, particularly retiring baby boomers (2) Career awareness and recruitment (3) New technologies and the need for operators and managers who can use them (4) Rising demand on transportation organizations requiring a workforce with a wider range of experience. |