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Module 4: TSMO Workforce Education

Join the Southeast Transportation Workforce Center and explore the future of the TSMO workforce, with roundtable discussions, research highlights, and reports. Discover the key challenges in the transportation industry and strategies for attracting the next generation. Be part of the conversation and collaborate for a stronger workforce.

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Module 4: TSMO Workforce Education

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  1. Module 4:TSMO Workforce Education Regional Operations Forum Franklin, TN May 21-23, 2019

  2. Session Overview • Brief overview of SETWC • Future of TSMO workforce • Highlights from recent research • Roundtable discussions & reports • Opportunities for engagement

  3. Southeast Transportation Workforce Center Southeast Transportation Workforce Center (SETWC) • Established in 2014 through Federal Highway Administration • Serving 12 southeastern states and Puerto Rico • Areas of national focus: • Women in transportation • Freight (trucking, rail, logistics) • Transportation operations

  4. National Network for the Transportation Workforce www.nntw.org

  5. What’s driving change? • TECHNOLOGY • Pipeline challenges • Outdated organizational procedures, job descriptions, etc.

  6. Key Workforce Challenges Perceptions • Lack of awareness • ‘Everyone’ needs a 4-year degree • Misperceptions of occupations (and connections to STEM) • Lack of understanding of career progression

  7. Key Workforce Challenges Changing demographics • Aging workforce • Multiple generations working together – and they value different things… • Ethnicity trends • DIVERSITY

  8. Key Workforce Challenges Technology • Change in the way work is conducted • Skillset shifts • New occupations • How do we respond from education/training perspective?

  9. Attracting the Next Generation • EARLY intervention • Tell the story! • Alternative recruitment and retention strategies – it’s all about motivation….and recruiting who you really need... “You can’t be what you can’t see” - Marian Wright Edelman, founder of The Children’s Defense Fund

  10. National Transportation Career Pathways InitiativeFHWA Agreement No.DTFH6116H00030

  11. National Transportation Career Pathways Initiative Characterizing the Workforce • Operations professionals must be: • Flexible, responsive, and adaptive to an ever-changing set of technological tools and innovations; • Capable of performing well under pressure and of making good decisions in high stress/high stakes environments; • Effective communicators, particularly with a wide range of stakeholders; • Knowledgeable of system infrastructure design and connectivity; and • No common academic pathway for transportation operations. • Operations in any realm requires significant on-the-job training.

  12. National Transportation Career Pathways Initiative Workforce Readiness Challenges • The workforce of the future must possess more interdisciplinary skills that cross over traditional boundaries of academic preparation. • One of most impacted discipline areas in terms of disruptive technologies. • Lack of awareness and misperception of operations occupations are the most significant challenges. • Experiential learning is crucial.

  13. National Transportation Career Pathways Initiative

  14. TSMO Workforce: Skills, Positions, Recruitment, Retention, and Career DevelopmentNCHRP 20-7/Task 408

  15. TSMO Workforce: Skills, Positions, Recruitment, Retention, and Career DevelopmentNCHRP 20-7/Task 408

  16. Discussion Groups

  17. Where do we go from here? • Flexibility and resilience • Starting (or changing) the conversation • COLLABORATION!

  18. How can you be engaged? • Participate in Transportation Spotlight program • Join NTCPI working group

  19. Questions? Stephanie Ivey ssalyers@memphis.edu

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