Establishing a National Transit Industry Rail Vehicle Technician Qualification Program

Summary

​TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Report 170: Establishing a National Transit Industry Rail Vehicle Technician Qualification Program—Building for Success describes a system of qualification that has been developed for rail vehicle technicians. This qualification system is available for implementation through the Transportation Learning Center.

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​Meeting the challenge of developing fully qualified transit rail car maintenance technicians is the goal of TCRP Project E-07, “Establishing a National Transit Industry Rail Vehicle Technician Qualification Program: Building for Success.” The best answer, fine-tuned by the research team for this project, is a new multipart, industrywide system of qualification. This system of qualification integrates a number of related elements: national training standards; a progressive classroom curriculum and introductory courseware; on-the-job learning modules; and an apprenticeship framework that combines well-designed sequences of learning, mentoring to support learners, and coordination of classroom and on-the-job learning.

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