Date: June 9, 2022
Author(s): Teo Wickland
Abstract
The United States transportation sector is currently faced with a wide array of actual and potential new technologies and approaches, which could transform the nation’s transportation system. Even as these new technologies and approaches suggest the possible need for new skills, the nation’s transportation workforce already faces a skills deficit, independent of these new technologies and approaches. This conjuncture suggests the urgency of identifying needed skills for the transportation workforce.
About the Project
The United States’ transportation workforce is currently at a skills deficit in key areas. New and innovative transportation technologies and approaches threaten to exacerbate this situation. Yet, transportation workers need more than skills to implement new technologies: they need the skills to critically determine which technologies are likely to support a thriving nation and under what conditions. Additionally, transportation workers need the skills to support non-technology-focused solutions to the nation’s transportation challenges, including cultural, political, and social change.