News and Updates
Transit Elevator/Escalator Courseware Development Team Focuses on ID Skills for “Master Techs”
Posted February 2013
Last week, courseware development team members of the Center’s Transit Elevator/Escalator Training Consortium met in Silver Spring. The main focus of the meeting was identifying the skills that are needed for “Master Transit Elevator/Escalator Technicians.”
Read more...Center Awarded TCRP Project: National Training & Certification for Vehicle Maintenance Instructors
Posted January 2013
The Transportation Learning Center has been awarded TCRP Project F-19, A National Training and Certification Program for Transit Vehicle Maintenance Instructors, with work to begin in late January 2013. This project will develop a detailed plan for curriculum and written and hands-on certification, along with a business plan for potential implementation in a vehicle maintenance instructor training and certification program.
Read more...Center Among Groups to Receive FTA Transit Workforce Development Funds
Posted January 2013
On January 11, 2013 FTA announced the recipients of $7 million in grants for transit workforce development programs. The Center received funding for both its submitted proposals and joins the list of 17 organizations in 12 states. The Center will work specifically on creating a signals training consortium, modeled on the successful work of the transit elevator/escalator training consortium, as well as creating career pathways for young people to enter transit careers and apprenticeship models for career ladder advancement for frontline transit technicians.
Read more...Weekly Update for the Week of January 10, 2013
Posted January 2013
This week’s selection features stories on Transportation & Infrastructure Committee appointments, transit oriented development in the washington DC metro area and how to make transit more fun!
Read more...Transportation Learning Center Weekly Update 11.22.2012
Posted November 2012
This week’s edition features stories on the possibility that John Mica will relinquish his role as chair of the transportation and infrastructure committee, a strike on the London tube and how mass transit fits into a plan to reduce pollution and congestion in Atlanta.
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