Roadmap to Addressing State DOT Workforce Planning and Development Needs

State departments of transportation (DOTs) are struggling to maintain staffing levels and worker skillsets, and high turnover rates are depleting the transportation industry of the skills and knowledge required to meet public needs. To address these challenges, state DOTs need to grow and diversify their workforces and anticipate the workforce needs of the future. State DOTs are exploring the science of workforce management to determine how to best support the changing workforce. The levels of workforce planning knowledge and access to effective workforce strategies vary across the state DOTs. A state DOT community of practice has emerged to develop tangible resources that state DOTs can put into practice. This community has also highlighted the challenges state DOTs face in allocating the needed resources to effectively address workforce issues, while trying to address the needs of the traveling public with a diminished workforce. Research is needed to address the priority needs of state DOT leadership by providing successful practices and processes to address current workforce challenges, identifying additional resource needs, and preparing leadership for future workforce needs. The objective of this research is to develop a roadmap for state DOTs to address priority gaps in their workforces. The research would identify the following: Priority state DOT needs in workforce planning and development; Gaps in resources to address priority state DOT needs; Available workforce resources and successful/innovative practices in the transportation industry and other sectors; How successful/innovative workforce practices are transferrable to state DOTs. This research would provide successful practices and processes that state DOTs can implement to address current workforce challenges and guide work to address future workforce challenges. The research would also assist state DOTs in understating the resources and time needed to conduct workforce development and planning and prepare leadership for future workforce needs.

• Record URL:
  http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=5810

Language

• English

Project

• Funding: $300000
• Contract Numbers:

  20-24(153)

• Sponsor Organizations:

  National Cooperative Highway Research Program

  Transportation Research Board
  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO)

  444 North Capitol Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Project Managers:

  Jared, David

• Start Date: 20240923
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Personnel retention; Recruiting; State departments of transportation; Workforce development
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01931763
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: 20-24(153)
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Sep 23 2024 6:29PM