Skills Gap Analysis: West Virginia Transit Training Partnership Maintenance Training Asset Map

In the coming years, the public transportation industry will experience the loss of a number of skilled mechanics to retirement and other opportunities. With advances in technology it has become increasingly difficult to recruit adequately prepared replacement workers, and to train the incumbent workforce to the highest level of proficiency. In late 2009 a consortium of five transit agencies in partnership with their Amalgamated Transit Union locals began a joint labor-management initiative to address the current and future skill needs of their bus maintenance workforce. The report identifies how prepared the State's Technical and Educational institutions are to customize and deliver workforce training to meet the growing needs for a skilled workforce in West Virginia. The competition to access the resources required to develop, customize and deliver workforce training increases as the dollars shrink. This mapping process identifies the existing links and networking that is already in place that would enhance how the CTC and the WVSCTC institutions can work together to provide the training that the employers need for their workers.

• Record URL:
  http://www.njrati.org/wp-content/plugins/research_projects/reports/210144.pdf
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• Supplemental Notes:
  • This document is disseminated under the sponsorship of the Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  Rahall Appalachian Transportation Institute

  Marshall University
  Huntington, WV  United States  25755

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

  Office of University Programs, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Long, Diana
• Publication Date: 2010-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Tables;
• Pagination: 20p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Maintenance personnel; Partnerships; Personnel development; Public transit; Training; Transit buses; Workforce
• Geographic Terms: West Virginia
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Education and Training; Maintenance and Preservation; Public Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01165277
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 210144
• Files: UTC, TRIS, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 19 2010 11:16AM