TRANSPORTATION PROFESSIONALS FUTURE NEEDS AND OPPORTUNITIES

A large number of professionals who entered highway and mass transit organizations during the past 30 years are expected to retire soon, particularly those who helped build the nation's Interstate system. Unless there is careful planning, this loss of professional capability could impair the ability of these agencies to maintain the nations's transportation system effectively. Aware of this development, the Congress (through the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982) directed the National Academy of Sciences to "conduct a comprehensive study and investigation of future transportation professional manpower needs, including but not limited to prevailing methods of recruitment, training and financial and other incentives and disincentives which encourage or discourage retention in service of such professional manpower by Federal, State, and local governments." The legislation called for a report to the Secretary of Transportation and the Congress "on the results of such study and investigation, together with its recommendations." In response, this report assesses future professional needs in highway and mass transit agencies in federal, state, and local government. This study also examines the role of consulting firms in satisfying the future professional requirements of highway and transit agencies.

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• Publication Date: 1985

Media Info

• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 299 p.
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 207
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0360-859X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Engineers; Federal government; Incentives; Local government; Needs assessment; Professional personnel; State government; Training; Transportation engineering
• Geographic Terms: United States
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Education and Training; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00396695
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-039 017
• Files: HSL, TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Dec 31 1986 12:00AM