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National Signals Training Consortium Meets at TriMet to Develop Courseware, Discuss Apprenticeship

Posted October 2016

The National Signals Training Consortium (the Consortium) met in Portland last week. Neil McFarlane, General Manager of TriMet, welcomed the group to Portland and stressed the importance of the consortium’s work within the industry.

To date the Signals Consortium, composed of 22 public transportation agencies and their unions (listed below) have worked with the Center to develop over 350 hours of instructional material, draft an apprenticeship framework, share best practices and develop recruitment strategies to fill the upcoming skills gap - calling particularly on recruitment of veterans and women.

For more information:

  Courseware Samples on Transit Training Network
  The Center’s Facebook Page
  Contact Project Manager Julie Deibel-Pundt