Making Connections 2024 – Workforce Data in Context – National Trends, Future Projections, and Implications for Transit Locations

This session about national and agency-level workforce datasets was presented as part of TWC’s Making Connections 2024 transit workforce conference in November, 2024.

Session Description: Employment in public transportation is affected by broad economic and demographic dynamics, but honing in on transit workforce trends can be challenging. The Transit Workforce Center created the Transit Workforce Data Dashboard to distill relevant data points from national datasets. In this session, TWC highlighted specific employment patterns and challenges in transit-related occupations and panelists covered research and trends in national and agency-level datasets.

Moderator: 

• Douglas Nevins: Senior Researcher – International Transportation Learning Center / Transit Workforce Center

Speakers:

• Dr. Asha Weinstein Agrawal: Director of Education – Mineta Transportation Institute
• Kenneth Blacks: Transportation Program Analyst – Federal Transit Administration
• Michaela Boneva: Research Associate – International Transportation Learning Center / Transit Workforce Center
• Dr. Shayna Gleason: Senior Researcher – International Transportation Learning Center / Transit Workforce Center