Transportation Workforce Planning and Development Strategies
Estimates indicate that more than 14 million jobs—about 11% of civilian jobs in the United
States—are related to infrastructure. Transportation
has the potential to be a major U.S. job creator with projections to add 417,000 net
jobs from 2012 to 2022. An additional 4.2 million workers will need to be hired to fill vacancies
created by people leaving the transportation workforce.
Transportation workforce strategies are highly decentralized
with no national standards for operations, planning, or programming. This is not necessarily a
criticism because there is tremendous variation in the transportation workforce needs from state
to state. However, it means there is little documentation of best practices, making it difficult to
know what innovation can be transferred from state to state.
The TRB National Cooperative Highway Research Program's
NCHRP Synthesis 543: Transportation Workforce Planning and Development Strategies
is a synthesis of the current state of practice
associated with the implementation of transportation workforce planning and development
strategies at state departments of transportation (DOTs) and associated local and tribal
technical assistance programs (LTAPs/TTAPs).
This Summary Last Modified On: 3/12/2021