News and Updates
UTA/ATU Career Pathway Partnership Exposes 3,200 Students—Possibility of being Transit Employees
Posted May 2014
For over a year the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) and the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 382 have been working together on outreach to make community members aware of opportunities for great careers in frontline work at UTA.
Read more...MetroNorth Pilots First Course Developed by the Signals Training Consortium
Posted April 2014
On Tuesday April 22, MetroNorth piloted the first course developed by the Center’s Signals Training Consortium: Course 101 Introduction and Overview to Track Circuits. Nine Phase 3 signal maintainers took part in this one day course which was co-instructed at MetroNorth’s training facility in White Plains, NY.
Read more...Center Presents on Standard-Based Training and Apprenticeship for Frontline Technicians at NTI Conf.
Posted April 2014
Seventeen people representing transit agencies and community colleges attended the Center’s March 31 workshop on Standards-based Training and Apprenticeship for Frontline Technicians at the Transit Trainers Workshop sponsored by the National Transit Institute in Long Beach, California. The presentation focused on the full system of training and qualification developed for rail car technicians through the recently completed TCRP E-7 project Establishing a National Transit Industry Rail Vehicle Technician Qualification Program, but Center Deputy Director Jack Clark noted that the system is relevant for all transit maintenance occupations.
Read more...Signals Training Consortium Releases First Round of Courses
Posted April 2014
This week, the Center’s Signals Training Consortium released the Introduction and Overview Courses for the following topics:
* Track Circuits
* Switches and Derails
* Train Stops
* Highway Grade Crossings
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