Administration of Highway and Transportation Agencies. A Guide for Recruitment and Retention of Construction Inspectors

State departments of transportation (DOTs) are facing challenges in recruiting and retaining (R&R) construction inspectors (CIs) in a competitive job market. Federal, state, and private funding is available for building and maintaining transportation infrastructure, but state DOTs are seeing shortages in the workforce supporting these activities. State DOTs have historically promoted innovation, collaboration, and problem-solving to achieve their goals. Further collaboration is needed to address workforce issues like the shortage of CIs. State DOTs can help by offering solutions for workforce shortages by addressing barriers to qualification and R&R of CIs and expanding access to funds promoting job training and other initiatives to build the rising workforce. Research is needed to help state DOTs explore innovative ways to collaborate with educational institutions, industry, and employment agencies for funding and create a framework to promote implementation of qualification and R&R practices. The objective of this research is to develop a guide for state DOTs to foster R&R of transportation CIs. This guide should include an implementation framework customizable to each state DOT.

• Record URL:
  • http://apps.trb.org/cmsfeed/TRBNetProjectDisplay.asp?ProjectID=5809
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Contract to a Performing Organization has not yet been awarded.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Proposed
• Funding: $300,000.00
• Contract Numbers:

  Project 20-24(152)

• 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: 20251001
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Construction projects; Education and training; Inspectors; Personnel retention; Recruiting; State departments of transportation
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Construction; Education and Training; Highways;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01931760
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Transportation Research Board
• Contract Numbers: Project 20-24(152)
• Files: TRB, RIP
• Created Date: Sep 23 2024 6:07PM