JOINT LABOR AND MANAGEMENT DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A TRANSIT BUS/RAIL MECHANIC APPRENTICESHIP TRAINING PROGRAM

There are few sources of obtaining the technical skills required in the transit industry to maintain high technology and alternative fuel buses. There are no technical schools in the US that graduates a qualified "Urban Transit Bus Mechanic". The key to modern transit bus maintenance is the architecture that ties the major bus components and systems together, that is the electrical/electronic system that is unique to the bus. The bus will use a commercially available engine, transmission, air brake, and HVAC system, but the capacity for these stand alone components to function as a system is the maintenance focus on the modern transit bus. At any given time in the transit industry, bus "Electrical System" discrepancies will account for approximately 50% of non-preprogrammed workorders. The bus mechanic of today must now be a "Systems" maintainer.

• Corporate Authors:

  American Public Transportation Association

  1201 New York Avenue, NW
  Washington, DC    20005
• Authors:
  • Partain, D W
• Conference:
  • Proceedings of the 1997 APTA Bus Operations, Technology & Management Conference
  • Location: Miami, Florida
  • Date: 1997-5-4 to 1997-5-7
• Publication Date: 1997-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 162-168

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternate fuels; Diesel engines; Maintenance; Mechanics (Persons); Public transit; Training; Vehicle maintenance
• Uncontrolled Terms: Transit services
• Old TRIS Terms: Diesel maintenance
• Subject Areas: Education and Training; Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Public Transportation; I61: Equipment and Maintenance Methods;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00740360
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 18 1997 12:00AM