News and Updates

Signals Training Consortium Forges Ahead on Training Program

Posted May 2014

The Signals Training Consortium held its third full meeting last week, May 6-9, 2014, at Metro-North’s facility in White Plains, NY.  The consortium brings together 20 public transportation agencies and their unions from across the country to create a standardized training program for signal maintainers.

UTA/ATU Career Pathway Partnership Exposes 3,200 Students—Possibility of being Transit Employees

Posted May 2014

For over a year the Utah Transit Authority (UTA) and the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 382 have been working together on outreach to make community members aware of opportunities for great careers in frontline work at UTA.

Weekly Update for May 1, 2014

Posted May 2014

MetroNorth Pilots First Course Developed by the Signals Training Consortium

Posted April 2014

On Tuesday April 22, MetroNorth piloted the first course developed by the Center’s Signals Training Consortium: Course 101 Introduction and Overview to Track Circuits.  Nine Phase 3 signal maintainers took part in this one day course which was co-instructed at MetroNorth’s training facility in White Plains, NY.

Center Presents on Standard-Based Training and Apprenticeship for Frontline Technicians at NTI Conf.

Posted April 2014

Seventeen people representing transit agencies and community colleges attended the Center’s March 31 workshop on Standards-based Training and Apprenticeship for Frontline Technicians at the Transit Trainers Workshop sponsored by the National Transit Institute in Long Beach, California.  The presentation focused on the full system of training and qualification developed for rail car technicians through the recently completed TCRP E-7 project Establishing a National Transit Industry Rail Vehicle Technician Qualification Program, but Center Deputy Director Jack Clark noted that the system is relevant for all transit maintenance occupations.