Publications
The Center conducts research to determine the effectiveness of its Programs in public transportation training and apprenticeship. These studies help the industry determine best practices and improve future training programs at other sites nationally.
Transit Partnership Training: Metrics of Success
You can’t know how well you’re doing until you find ways to measure outcomes. The Center followed through on this basic insight by developing a series of four in-depth research reports of the past four years on the work of the Keystone Transit Career Ladder Partnership. The key findings of this research are highlighted in this overview.
Download: Metrics of Success
Passing on the Legacy
Training transit workers reaps benefits for transit agencies, workers and those who ride public transportation. Our most recent research report, Passing on the Legacy: The Benefits of Mentoring in Transit Training, explores the role of mentoring in transit training. The Center profiled three mentoring programs at Portland, Oregon’s TriMet system, Alameda Contra-Costa Transit District and at the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority. Varying in size, location and training programs, these three locations use mentoring as a tool to hone worker skills. Check out the report at http://www.transportcenter.org. Also, view other Center publications about the benefits of transit training including our research series Measuring Up.
Download: Passing on the Legacy
Measuring Up
This report uses objective data to demonstrate the positive impact of Keystone training on job performance and transit operations. The Center's research found that enhanced maintenance training through Keystone has raised the knowledge and skill levels of transit maintenance employees, improved effectiveness of diagnostics and repair, and yielded reduced maintenance costs and improved vehicle reliability.
Check out the Center's full Measuring Up report series.
MeasuringUpVol1.pdf
MeasuringUpV2_5-4-2007.pdf
Download: Measuring Up Interim Report
People Make the Hardware Work: Transit Experts Call for Labor Management Training Partnerships
A summary of findings from the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP), a service of the U.S. Department of Transportation, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Public Transportation Association.
Download: People Make the Hardware Work
Transportation Industry Environmental Scan
The transportation industry has been identified as a high-growth industry, with Bureau of Labor Statistics projecting nearly 22 percent employment growth between 2002 and 2012. This report provides a comprehensive scan of the transportation industry including overall industry structure, major sector definitions, key associations, unions and joint workforce development initiatives, and statistics on the industry, its employers, and its workforce.
Download: Transportation Industry Environmental Scan
Keystone: Making a Difference In Pennsylvania Transit
Published in June 2004, this report uses survey data to show that the Keysotne Transit Career Ladder Partnership has generated broad support from supervisors and workers in both large and small Pennsylvania transit agencies.
Download: Keystone: Making a Difference in Pennsylvania Transit
Pennsylvania Transit on the High Road
This 2003 report reviews the early development of the Keystone Transit Career Ladder Partnership from the earliest discussions in 2001 to the end of its second program year in June 2003.
Download: Pennsylvania Transit on the High Road
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