Practices in Assuring Employee Availability

Practices in Assuring Employee Availability
Author: Joel Volinski
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 80
Release: 1999
Genre: Transportation
ISBN: 9780309068604

Presents state of the practice information about the various actions transit agencies (and other employers) have taken to help ensure the availability of quality employees in an increasingly competitive employment environment. It focuses on the practices and policies transit agencies have put in place to help minimize absenteeism at their agencies, from which other agencies may find useful applications.

Traveler Response to Transportation System Changes Handbook, Third Edition: Chapter 19, Employer and Institutional TDM Strategies

Traveler Response to Transportation System Changes Handbook, Third Edition: Chapter 19, Employer and Institutional TDM Strategies
Author: Transportation Research Board
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2010-07-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0309118360

"The third edition Traveler Response to Transportation System Changes Handbook provides comprehensive information on travel demand effects of alternative urban transportation policies, operating approaches and systems, and built environment options, by building upon, expanding, and selectively replacing the earlier editions to provide a contemporary assessment of the experience and insights gained from the application and analysis of various system changes and alternatives. The focus is on aiding transportation, transit, and land use planners in their conduct of travel demand and related analyses, and to inform elected officials, administrators, operators, designers, and the general public as well. The Traveler Response to Transportation System Changes Handbook consists of the Chapter 1 introductory materials and 15 stand-alone published topic area chapters. Each topic area chapter provides traveler response findings including supportive information and interpretation, and also includes case studies and a bibliography consisting of the references utilized as sources. Please note that Chapters 4, 7, and 8 have been deferred for a future TCRP project effort. The Handbook findings derive primarily from reported results and analyses of real-world transportation system and policy applications and trials. Experimental or quasi-experimental empirical data have been the information source of choice. Other empirical data derivations and simple accounts of outcomes have been employed as necessary. Forecasts and other estimates derived from travel demand model applications and similar techniques have been used, but on a very selective basis; mostly for augmenting the empirical data where gaps exist, and for providing additional insights and context. TCRP Report 95: Traveler Response to Transportation System Changes Handbook will be of interest to transit, transportation, and land use planning practitioners; transportation engineers; land developers, employers, and school administrators; researchers and educators; and professionals across a broad spectrum of transportation and planning; metropolitan planning organizations; and local, state, and federal government agencies."--taken from publisher web site.

Private Sector Options for Commuter Transportation

Private Sector Options for Commuter Transportation
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 210
Release: 1984
Genre: Car pools
ISBN:

Considering privately provided unsubsidized commuter bus service (regular route, subscription bus and bus pools), public agency contracts with private operations, transit- and employer-sponsored ridesharing.

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.

Guidebook for Recruiting, Developing, and Retaining Transit Managers for Fixed-route Bus and Paratransit Systems

Guidebook for Recruiting, Developing, and Retaining Transit Managers for Fixed-route Bus and Paratransit Systems
Author: Transit Cooperative Research Program
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2010
Genre: Bus lines
ISBN: 030915491X

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 139: Guidebook for Recruiting, Developing, and Retaining Transit Managers for Fixed-Route Bus and Paratransit Systems explores resources for fixed-route bus, general public demand response, and Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) paratransit systems resources to assist in the recruitment, development, and retention of managers. The Guidebook is accompanied by CRP-CD-77, which provides Model Job Descriptions for 32 broad job titles that indicate the structure and content for job descriptions for manager jobs. The CD-ROM is also available for download from TRB's website as an ISO image. A separate report presenting the research methodology, the results of a literature review, and the results from focus groups held with 15 other non-transit public and private sector organizations used in production of TRCP Report 139 is available online.

Practical Resources for Recruiting Minorities for Chief Executive Officers at Public Transportation Agencies

Practical Resources for Recruiting Minorities for Chief Executive Officers at Public Transportation Agencies
Author:
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2011
Genre: Chief executive officers
ISBN: 0309213592

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 148: Practical Resources for Recruiting Minorities for Chief Executive Officers at Public Transportation Agencies provides strategies to recruit minorities for chief executive officer (CEO) positions and offers resources to assist governing boards of public transportation agencies in the recruitment of minority CEOs. The report also assesses the transit industry's recruitment processes for CEOs and provides a case for diversity that documents the benefits of minorities in public transportation leadership positions. The report also describes strategies for retaining CEOs at public transportation agencies.

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.