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This week’s update includes stories on
Posted January 2021
This week’s update includes webinars and stories on a look at the year ahead: biggest questions for transit in 2021, transit impacts on jobs, people and real estate and transportation equity lessons from the pandemic.
Read more...Center Delivers Virtual TC3 Class to Workforce Training Participants
Posted January 2021
For the past several years, Center Senior Director for Workforce Education Pat Greenfield and long-time Center subject matter expert Frank Burnett, a retired IBEW Local 103 Instructor and MBTA signals maintainer, have co-taught the Transit Core Competencies Curriculum (TC3) in a program called Community Works .
Read more...National Rail Car Training Consortium Holds Virtual End of Year Meeting
Posted January 2021
On December 17, 2020 the Center held a virtual meeting of the National Rail Car Training Consortium. The meeting was well attended with twelve of fifteen active agencies in attendance. To begin the meeting, member agencies had an opportunity to share updates on how the pandemic has impacted service and training at their respective locations.
Read more...Center Holds Virtual National Bus Maintenance Apprenticeship Committee Meeting
Posted January 2021
On December 10, the Center held a virtual meeting of the National Bus Maintenance Apprenticeship Committee.
Read more...TCRP Releases Center Co-authored Report on Improving the Health and Safety of Transit Workers
Posted December 2020
The Transportation Research Board’s Transit Cooperative Research Program recently released Research Report 217: Improving the Health and Safety of Transit Workers with Corresponding Impacts on the Bottom Line .
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