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Transit Core Competencies Curriculum Work Group Holds Kick of Webinar

Posted February 2016

According to Center research, 126 Percent of today’s transit workforce
will have to be hired and trained in the next 10 years. 90 percent of these employees will be frontline workers. In an effort to address this impending skill shortage, the Center and its partners (listed below) are currently working on development of a set of “transit core competencies curriculum” or TC3:

TC3 Partner Organizations: 

  Capital Metro
  GCRTA/ATU 268
  IAMAW
  MARTA
  MBTA/IBEW 103
  Metro North
  Mile High Youth Corps
  SamTrans/ATU 1574
  SEPTA/TWU 234
  TWU 100
  WMATA

The transit core competencies curriculum is meant to expand the pipeline of qualified applicants for transit maintenance careers by developing and enhancing pre-employment programs, outlining a series of viable career pathways and expanding education engagement and career opportunities for communities served by public transportation.

On Friday January 22, the Center held a kick off webinar where partner organizations discussed the content and scope of these curricula as well as the process on how to develop a quality product that will be meet the project goals.

For more information on this effort, contact Project Manager Pat Greenfield.