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21st Century Transportation Workforce Summit

December 8-9, 2008

Madison, Wisconsin


http://www.wistrans.org/cfire/21stCenturyWorkforceSummit/

FINAL AGENDA NOW AVAILABLE: CLICK HERE

Pre-Summit Education Survey

Pre-Summit State DOT Survey

Results of Interviews

The National Center for Freight and Infrastructure Research and Education (CFIRE) is hosting the 21st Century Transportation Workforce Summit on December 8-9, 2008.

Purpose: The workforce summit will bring together leaders from the transportation community and from educational institutions to:

  • Explore factors that will influence transportation needs by 2020
  • Estimate the impact that those factors will have on transportation agencies and programs, and predict the impact that the changes outlined above will have on the skills needed by transportation professionals
  • Define approaches needed in agencies and educational institutions to ensure that the future workforce has the skills that will be needed
  • Explore institutional arrangements that will be needed to met the learning needs of the future

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Program

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Sponsored by the FHWA, Wisconsin DOT, Mississippi Valley Conference of AASHTO, and CFIRE.