News and Updates

Bay Area Transit Acting on Skills Crisis

Posted October 2015

“About 50 percent of our technical workforce has retired in the last two years.  Another 30 percent will retire in the next five years,”

“We expect to lose 40 percent of our workers to retirement in the next five years.”

“Close to 50 percent of our workforce could retire now, and they certainly will in the next five years.”

Join the Center at NTI’s 2015 Transit Trainers’ Workshop

Posted October 2015

The Center is honored to be presenting two workshops at the National Transit Institute’s Upcoming Transit Trainer’s Workshop:
-  Expanding Apprenticeship for Transit Technicians: Opportunities and
    Resources - Monday, October 12, 9:00am - 10:30am

Mark your calendar for Center presentations at APTA Annua-Transit Apprenticeship & Safety Culture

Posted October 2015

As the dates are approaching for the 2015 APTA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Executive Director of the Transportation Learning Center, Jack Clark, and his two colleagues Brian Turner and Xinge Wang, are busy getting ready to lead presentations and exchanges on two hot topics in transit - developing and implementing apprenticeships for transit frontline workforce, and ways to improve transit safety culture.  Both presentations will be held on Tuesday, October 6, at Imperial Ballroom A of Hilton Union Square.

Looking for Military Veterans with Mass Transportation Experience to Help Recruit the Next Generatio

Posted October 2015

The Transportation Learning Center is now involved in two projects that address veterans’ re-entry into the civilian workforce and unemployment issues. We need to establish a veterans task force to address these issues within the public transportation industry.

Department of Labor Chooses National Transit Apprenticeship

Posted September 2015

On September 9, President Obama announced the US Department of Labor’s projects for the American Apprenticeship Initiative.