Workforce Development Links
In the 21st century, the transportation industry will need workers with a complex set of skills, including:
- Project/Program Management
- Public/Stakeholder Relations
- Capital Asset Maintenance
- Leadership & Ethics
- Global Issues
- Design & Construction
- Real Estate
Move Forward Today...
...by preparing for a career in a sector that has everyday impact on
the lives of Americans and in the efficiency of our economy. The
transportation industry provides an opportunity for you to help build
sustainable communities and tackle issues such as climate change,
energy use and safety. Today more than ever before, there are great
economic opportunities and challenges to meet the mobility needs
of Americans and American industry.
Join the transportation workforce in the federal, state, local or
private sector—and be part of a groundbreaking effort to improve
mobility for Americans and move our economy forward while
addressing the important issues of the environment, climate change,
energy use and safety.
The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded $979,829 to the University of Vermont's Transportation Research Center (TRC) as part of a $1.01 million workforce development project to help develop innovative programs to attract and retain skilled workers in the transportation sector of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.
The grant awarded to the TRC will fund four new programs to help transportation leaders attract and maintain workers in this challenging environment.
- Transportation Systems Institute—is focused on maintaining or recruiting new talent to the DOT workforce in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.
- Second Careers in Transportation Program—is focused on attracting retirees from other industries to bring their skills to bear on the 21st century challenges in transportation.
- Transportation Systems Academy—provides hands-on training for transportation industry jobs to students in the Community High School of Vermont Northern State Correctional Center campus and will provide this training at technical high schools.
- Community Colleges—Working with the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) we are collecting information about what community colleges are doing now and could do in preparing the next generation of transportation workers. We will present the results of this effort at the 2010 AACC Workforce Development Institute (WDI).
We invite you to join the transportation workforce. You can make a difference.
This material is based upon work supported by the Federal Highway Administration under Grant No. DRFH61-08-G-00007. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the Author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the view of the Federal Highway Administration.
