Transit Technology Career Ladder Partnership

FTA funding for the Center under the Transit Technology Career Ladder Partnership program was continuous from the Center’s founding in early 2001 until the summer of 2012.  This core program has directly supported development of the Center’s overall program framework:

• The network of local and statewide training partnerships in 12 states
• National training standards for six frontline maintenance and operations occupations
• National frameworks for apprenticeship with mentoring and train-the-trainer for bus, rail vehicle and elevator-escalator technicians
• Creating an industry-wide Consortium for developing training materials for elevator-escalator technicians and a broad-based proposal for a Signals training consortium (and broad interest in follow-on consortium work in fields like traction power and rail vehicle maintenance).

FTA core funding has also enabled the Center to develop additional programs that build on the partnerships for incumbent worker training:

• Safety, safety culture, and safety and health, expanding the reach of data-driven, problem-solving partnerships into new critical areas of joint interest to transit labor and management
• Career Pathways programs, using industry training standards and hands-on learning modules to motivate and educate in-school youth and other community members for future careers in frontline transit and other transportation occupations.

Funded originally on a discretionary basis by DOT, the TTCLP program was authorized at $500,000 annually in TEA-21 and $1,000,000 annually in SAFETEA-LU.  Unfortunately this program, like all other policy direction for frontline workforce training, was left out of MAP-21.

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