Best Practices Guidance for Workforce Transition and Succession Planning

Public sector transportation agencies and the contractors who help them do their work will have a major challenge in meeting their workforce needs for the foreseeable future. By some estimates, the aging of the baby boom generation could allow up to fifty percent of the total workforce to retire within the next ten years. Overall demographic issues and stagnant enrollments in science and math professional programs, traditionally the major sources of new hires into the transportation industry, will make finding adequate qualified recruits difficult.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $44967.00
• Contract Numbers:

  CFIRE 04-03

• Sponsor Organizations:

  National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education (CFIRE)

  University of Wisconsin, Madison
  1415 Engineering Drive, 2205 Engineering Hall
  Madison, WI  United States  53706
• Performing Organizations:

  National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education (CFIRE)

  University of Wisconsin, Madison
  1415 Engineering Drive, 2205 Engineering Hall
  Madison, WI  United States  53706
• Principal Investigators:

  Wittwer, Ernie

• Start Date: 20100406
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20101130
• Source Data: RiP Project 26692

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Best practices; Guidelines; Labor force; Personnel retention; Qualifications; Railroad transportation; Transportation careers; Water transportation
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Marine Transportation; Railroads;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01468177
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education (CFIRE)
• Contract Numbers: CFIRE 04-03
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jan 3 2013 3:46PM