News and Updates

Center Holds National Coach Operator Apprenticeship Meeting at TARC

Posted April 2019

The Center held the eighth Transit Coach Operator Apprenticeship Technical Committee Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky from April 2 to 5, 2019.

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National Rail Car Consortium Meeting Held in Sacramento, Adding New Courses to the Collection

Posted April 2019

Sacramento Regional Transit (SacRT) hosted the Rail Car Consortium’s sixth meeting between March 26 and 29, 2019.

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The Center Partners with New York Community Organizations

Posted April 2019

On Wednesday March 20, 2019, the Center’s Pat Greenfield joined Charles Jenkins, Acting Director of the Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100-NYC Transit Training and Upgrade Fund, to deliver a Public Transportation Industry overview pre-apprenticeship class to CDL students at South Bronx Overall Economic Opportunity Development Corporation (SoBro) in New York City.

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Center Director Gives Congressional Testimony on Frontline Workforce Needs

Posted March 2019

On March 13, Jack Clark, Executive Director of the Center, testified before the US House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Highways and Transit on the topic of “Aligning Federal Surface Transportation Policy to Meet 21st Century Needs.”

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The Center is Following Events to Help Ensure the Benefits of Technology are Broadly Shared

Posted March 2019

On Monday, February 25, Jack Clark and Kenyon Corbett from the Center attended an event hosted by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the Economic Policy Institute entitled “Making the Digital Economy Work for Everyone.”

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