Improving Bus Transit Safety Through Rewards and Discipline

Improving Bus Transit Safety Through Rewards and Discipline
Author: Jay A. Goodwill
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2012
Genre: Bus lines
ISBN: 0309223423

TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 97: Improving Bus Transit Safety Through Rewards and Discipline addresses the practices and experiences of public transit agencies in applying both corrective actions and rewards to recognize, motivate, and reinforce a safety culture within their organizations.

Employee Compensation Guidelines for Transit Providers in Rural and Small Urban Areas

Employee Compensation Guidelines for Transit Providers in Rural and Small Urban Areas
Author: KFH Group
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2008
Genre: Employee fringe benefits
ISBN: 0309117461

TRB¿s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 127, Employee Compensation Guidelines for Transit Providers in Rural and Small Urban Areas explores salary and benefit characteristics of transit systems in rural and small urban areas. An interactive computer tool, produced as part of this project, is available online and is designed to allow transit managers to quickly and easily obtain compensation and benefit data from comparable transit systems.

Improving Safety-related Rules Compliance in the Public Transportation Industry

Improving Safety-related Rules Compliance in the Public Transportation Industry
Author: Judith B. Gertler
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2011
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 030921355X

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 149: Improving Safety-Related Rules Compliance in the Public Transportation Industry identifies potential best practices for all of the elements of a comprehensive approach to safety-related rules compliance. The categories of best practices, which correspond to the elements of a safety-related rules compliance program, include screening and selecting employees, training and testing, communication, monitoring rules compliance, responding to noncompliance, and safety management. The report also outlines the features of a prototype safety reporting system for public transportation.

Building a Sustainable Workforce in the Public Transportation Industry— A Systems Approach

Building a Sustainable Workforce in the Public Transportation Industry— A Systems Approach
Author: Candace Blair Cronin
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2013
Genre: Local transit
ISBN: 0309283515

[This is] "a guidebook that addresses contemporary issues in workforce development, retention, and attraction, and public transportation image management. [It] is separated into modules that may be used independently or together [...]. Information across the modules is in the form of example successful programs, state-of-the-art initiatives, industry effective practices, and directions to implement and measure those practices. The results of this research may be used by human resource professionals and transportation policy makers in implementing more effective human resource business-planning processes"--Foreword.