News and Updates
Join the Center at This Year’s Good Jobs, Green Jobs Conference
Posted March 2013
The Transportation Learning Center is proud to be a convening sponsor of Good Jobs, Green Jobs 2013 - the only conference that brings together labor unions, workforce development specialists and environmental activists to meet head on the challenges we as a nation are challenging. America has no choice; we must put people to work modernizing our infrastructure, fixing our transportation system and fighting climate change.
Read more...Weekly Update for March 14, 2013
Posted March 2013
This weekly update includes stories on the top eight reasons people give up on transit, CTA’s proposal to train ex-offenders and Metro-north’s major service expansion.
Read more...Weekly Update for March 7, 2013
Posted March 2013
This weekly update includes transportation cuts under the federal sequestration, $3.4 million grant awarded for transit research and why Amtrak is losing so much money each year.
Read more...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.
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