TRANSPORTATION EDUCATION: TECHNICAL TRAINING AND CONTINUING EDUCATION

The rapid growth of transportation systems during the past 3 decades has posed unique challenges to transportation education in the 1980s. On the one hand, practitioners still need to be grounded in the technical skills offered, usually in academic disciplines such as engineering and urban planning. However, expanded service demands, coupled with financial constraints and complicated employee relations, make it essential that these same practitioners acquire the managerial skills necessary to run cost-effective, employee-efficient systems. In addition, the constant change and proliferation of technology, most notably in the communications and microcomputer fields, mean that transportation professionals must regularly participate in continuing education and technical training programs. This paper concentrates on continuing education and technical training and offers guidelines for how such programs can both reinforce and complement traditional academic courses. A systems approach is used and a continuing education working model is constructed.

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• Authors:
  • Cyra, David J
• Conference:
  • Conference on Surface Transportation Education and Training
  • Location: Williamsburg Virginia, United States
  • Date: 1984-10-28 to 1984-10-31
• Publication Date: 1985

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 148-159
• Monograph Title: TRANSPORTATION EDUCATION AND TRAINING--MEETING THE CHALLENGE
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 210
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0360-859X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Curricula; Education; Guidelines; Human resources management; Professional personnel; Systems analysis; Training; Transportation careers
• Uncontrolled Terms: Human resources
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Education and Training; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00468176
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0-039-03914-2
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 30 1988 12:00AM