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Corporate Creators:
National Highway Institute (U.S.)
Corporate Contributors:
United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
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Catalogs Education And Training Labor Force Training Programs
Resource Type:
Tech Report
Geographical Coverage:
United States
Corporate Publisher:
National Highway Institute (U.S.)
Abstract:
The United States transportation system is critical to the continued growth of the U.S. economy and the American way of life. With transportation demand growing faster than available resources, the transportation community is faced with a major challenge of meeting the needs of the traveling public in a changing environment. Since 1990, the U.S. population has increased by 32 million to 276 million and is expected to be 300 million by 2020. Vehicle miles traveled are growing twice as fast as the population, raising new challenges and issues relating to highway capacity, congestion, land use, and resource utilization. An aging population with a rapidly growing number of drivers over the age of 65 will also require innovations in roadway design and safety. At the same time, as much as 50 percent of the transportation workforce is expected to retire in the next decade, taking with them years of experience that will be difficult to replace. The increasing transportation demand, an aging workforce and the continuing need for transportation policy and programs that ensure the quality of the environment will require innovative approaches in the planning and management of the Nation's transportation enterprise. Without a skilled, technically competent workforce to effect policy changes and deliver technological innovation, our transportation system will be severely compromised. The National Highway Institute is working hard to help respond to the challenge of preparing the transportation workforce of the future. In order to provide training in a timely fashion, we are streamlining our course development and delivery process to reduce the time it takes from identification of the need for a new course to the actual delivery of the course to our customers. We also have developed two new initiatives - FasTrack and Web conferencing. FasTrack is a program for short courses that can be developed in compressed time frames. It will not be a substitute for the more comprehensive regular NHI courses, but will allow us to be more responsive to customer needs by delivering just-in-time information on policy, program and technology changes. We expect to work closely with the new FHWA Technical Service Teams in developing and managing the FasTrack program. Our web conferencing program will allow us to communicate to 70 sites for information programs of generally two hours or less. The short lead time to develop the information program and the ability to provide material in short time frames make web conferencing a valuable tool as a stand alone service or as part of a FasTrack or NHI course program. Retooling our NHI course development program and initiating our new FasTrack and web conferencing services demonstrate our commitment to meeting our customer needs and making our contributions to closing the transportation demand-supply gap. We are optimistic that these efforts will build on an already successful NHI program that provided 560 training sessions to more than 13,600 participants this past year. We look forward to another successful year and to working closely with our customers and partners to bring innovation to transportation through effective workforce development.
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Federal Highway Administration
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