Empowering the New Mobility Workforce, Reeb, Tyler

Transportation employers will need to hire 4.6 million workers--1.2 times the current transportation workforce--in the next decade. At the same time, educators, employers, and policymakers grapple with the transformational technologies and socioeconomic trends changing the way transportation systems move people and goods.

Empowering the New Mobility Workforce explores how leaders in education, industry, and government can work together to create an ecosystem facilitating learning and upskilling for emerging and incumbent transportation workers. Readers will learn how to conduct labor market analyses and develop competency models to ensure a skilled and adaptable workforce. The book empowers readers to establish ongoing communities of practice that cultivate sustainable career pathways that respond to ever-evolving socioeconomic trends and transformational technologies.

The priorities and strategies outlined are equally relevant to employers, educators, and policymakers--the three audiences that play critical roles in shaping the development of the professionals who will design, develop, operate, and maintain the transportation systems of the future. The book offers partnership- and network-driven methods to create sustainable and collaborative workforce development ecosystems with local, state, and national footprints.

• Provides a comprehensive assessment of the new technologies and consumer attitudes driving change in personal vehicle, mass transit, active transportation, and goods movement, both domestically and internationally
• Identifies the career pathways, experiential learning models, and types of curriculum needed to prepare emerging professionals to develop and operate transportation systems of the future
• Emphasizes, through case studies, innovative practices emerging in public- and private-sector transportation organizations
• Draws on key work conducted in the United States and around the world, acknowledging the increasing interconnectedness of transportation systems between countries, economies and social networks that transcend national boundaries