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Driving Simulators as Educational Outreach for Freight Transportation
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2023-07-01
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Abstract:The purpose of this project is to enhance outreach efforts for middle and high school student groups for freight career awareness by using truck driving simulators. While many STEM outreach programs and college curricula centered on transportation topics focus on the careers of engineers and planners, the roles of front-line workforce of our freight systems (drivers, pilots, and operators) are rarely highlighted. Yet, students may better connect with the impacts of engineering and planning work by witnessing how transportation projects impact front-line workers like truck drivers. Moreover, the trucking industry reports workforce shortages as a top critical issue on annual industry reports. Workforce development, for engineers and planners as well as drivers and pilots (for waterway navigation), is a critical issue that can be addressed in part through specialized outreach initiatives. This project developed an outreach program designed around the popularity and use of driving simulators to enhance outreach efforts for middle and high school student groups for freight career awareness. Many universities and, more recently, public libraries and workforce centers, allow public access to driving simulators. To this effect, more than twenty-five middle school girls through the University of Arkansas sponsored summer camp called, GirlTREC, participated in our driving simulator outreach program. GirlTREC is sponsored by the Maritime Transportation Research and Education Center (MarTREC) which is a US Department of Transportation Tier 1 University Transportation Center.
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