Center Holds Three Sessions at NTI Transit Trainers Workshop in Nashville
The Center delivered three well-received workshops during the 2017 National Transit Institute (NTI) Transit Trainers Workshop in Nashville, TN. On Monday, Instructional Design Program Manager, Julie Deibel-Pundt and Senior Instructional Design Associate, Amri Joyner delivered a "boot-camp" version of the Center's Five-day Train-the-Trainer course. Participants gained insights into the principles of adult learning and techniques on how to deliver good training. Then on Tuesday, Center Program Manager Tia Brown partnered with Diane Jones of the Urban Institute to present on developing and promoting competency-based and hybrid model registered apprenticeships across five frontline occupations in the transportation industry. Later, Center Program Director, John Schiavone, presented on a competency-based Bus Apprenticeship Framework being developed for the Department of Labor.
Following the conference, John Schiavone stayed on in Nashville to lead a committee of bus maintainers and bus maintenance trainers from transit agencies across the country to move toward finalizing the Center's work on the competency-based Bus Maintenance Apprenticeship Framework ahead of its submission to the Department of Labor.
For more information:
On the Center's Train-the-Trainer course, contact Program Manager, Julie Deibel-Pundt.
On Registered Apprenticeship, contact Program Manager, Tia Brown
On the Bus Apprenticeship Committee, contact Program Director, John Schiavone
Mentor Training Delivered at GCRTA in Cleveland, Ohio
On March 21st, the Center worked with Keystone Development Partnership (KDP) to deliver a one day mentor training to GCRTA rail vehicle technicians. GCRTA is in the final stages of registration for their rail vehicle technician apprenticeship program. These mentors will be an integral part to the implementation of that apprenticeship program.
The training that was delivered by Stuart Bass of KDP covered topics such as workplace training, mentors as teachers and on-site advisors, giving instruction, mentors as communication, and problem solving. For more information the Mentor training course, contact Program Manager Tia Brown.
A new report from the American Public Transportation Association reveals insights that will be useful to transportation professionals whose jobs require them to understand who rides transit, where they are going, and why they choose it.
New York's subway is by far the least wheelchair-friendly public transit system of any major American city, with only 92 of the system's 425 stations accessible. That means fewer than one in four stations can be used by people in wheelchairs when elevators are working - and they frequently are not. On average, 25 elevators a day stop working, and these breakdowns are not quickly resolved; their median duration is nearly four hours.
Ridership on the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority's (MARTA) system soared 25 percent last week Friday following the fire and bridge collapse on Interstate 85, according to MARTA General Manager and Chief Executive Officer Keith Parker.
The goal of the Transit Signal Priority technology - along with the planned creation of five miles of bus-only lanes and removal of hundreds of underused bus stops - is to allow buses to spend more time moving and less time in traffic, increasing on-time rates across the system.
In her State of the District speech, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser talked about affordable housing, DC's relationship to the federal government, and much more. She also disagreed with the governors to the north and south about whether Metro needs another study before it can get funding.
While the MBTA considers scaling back weekend service, regulars like the idea of expanding it, saying there aren't enough trains to be convenient. Public transportation advocates said adding weekend trains would increase ridership, but it seems unlikely the MBTA would want to take the gamble.
Earlier this year, the Indianapolis City-County Council voted 17-8 for a 0.25% income tax dedicated to mass transit. This was the final step in a decade-long effort to significantly improve mass transit in Indiana's state capitol, whose underfunded 'IndyGo' transit system struggles to serve the nation's 14th largest city with an aging bus fleet ranked 83rd by size.
The Sacramento plan would focus mainly on immediate needs like patching potholes, repairing storm damage and rebuilding neglected roads and bridges. But the Bay Area has larger, longer-range needs - including purchasing 306 more new BART rail cars, connecting Caltrain to the Transbay Transit Center in San Francisco and planning for a second Transbay Tube.
When a famed Washington, D.C., architect learned of the city's plan to scrap several fleets of old subway cars, he thought up a better use for the retired models. If Arthur Cotton Moore has his way, some of the outdated Metro cars could be turned into houses for homeless people.
Gov. John Kasich on Friday signed into law a two-year, $7.8 billion transportation and public safety budget, but not before striking a provision he said could throw up barriers to Ohio's pursuit of driverless vehicle technology.
Maryland officials want a federal judge to issue a decision in the long-running Purple Line lawsuit that has delayed the start of construction on the light-rail line for more than four months.
Known in Japanese as shisa kanko, pointing-and-calling works on the principle of associating one's tasks with physical movements and vocalizations to prevent errors by "raising the consciousness levels of workers"-according to the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, Japan.
Bogota's TransMilenio Bus Rapid Transit system, which opened in 2000, is one of the largest and most heavily used in the world. In fact, the United States government even looked at how to mimic it. Creating a high-quality BRT system here is possible- it'd just require quite a bit of political will.
The same week President Donald Trump signed an executive order designed to roll back Barack Obama's Clean Power Plan, climate activists in two cities on opposite sides of the United States were pressuring their transit agencies to think about how today's investments will impact the adoption of renewable energy sources in the future
The American Society of Landscape Architects - March 27, 2017
Among its recommendations, the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) urges policy makers to support a comprehensive infrastructure package that invests in transit and transit-oriented development to meet the growing demand for expanded public transportation and intercity passenger rail systems across the country. Transit-oriented development is also critical to jump-starting local economic development.
