UMTA Technical Assistance Advisory Seminar - Ann Arbor, MI

Details

• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Urban Mass Transportation Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Technology transfer
  • Public transit
  • Technical assistance
  • Urban transit
  • Training programs
  • Mass transit
  • Seminars
  • Employee training
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.21949/1527446
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Transit Administration
• Abstract:
  Since the early 1970's, the relative size of re- search and training programs within the general scope of UMTA activities has diminished precipitiously. In 1973, such programs represented 17% of the total UMTA budget; today, that figure stands at approximately 1.5%. In constant dollars, UMTA is presently spending less on research and training programs than at any time in its history. During the past decade - and especially in the last few years - program emphasis has been shifted in several significant ways. The initial UMTA program emphasized development of major hardware-oriented systems which could take advantage of emerging technologies, These new system developments have given way to an increasing concentration on subsystem improvements and the "soft" sciences (management training, operations analysis, policy-oriented studies, marketing and planning), Presently, the budget consists of approximately 50% technology oriented activity (primarily subsystem refinement), with the remainder devoted to management and human re- source developments.
• Format:
  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/686/dot_686_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 905.92 KB]
• Collection(s):
  FTA 50th Anniversary Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:83f0b913389e45fdb8a45c45bc094cdaf08204436972db9374cb5f581747be13