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5 1.1 Introduction Many transportation agencies are facing challenges attracting qualified, technically competent, culturally sensitive, and motivated planning staff. Others are able to attract employees, but report that they often lose mid-level supervisors and managers to competition from other organizations that offer more defined career paths or higher salaries.
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6 Attracting, Retaining, and Developing the Transportation Workforce: Transportation Planners planning capability. In transportation planning, by its very nature, one looks out 20 to 25 years to identify the key characteristics of the world we will likely live in (although some agencies have adopted 40- and 50-year planning horizons)
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Project Context, Research Objectives, and Approach 7 demographic, and cultural contexts for transportation decisions. Examples of consequential policy issues identified by the TRB in its Critical Issues in Transportation 2019 Policy Snapshot [6]
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8 Attracting, Retaining, and Developing the Transportation Workforce: Transportation Planners one considers different generational cohorts, for example, baby boomers, millennials (Gen Y)
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Project Context, Research Objectives, and Approach 9 • Offering a flexible and structured human resource program that supports and encourages fulfilling career paths for transportation planners; and • Attracting transportation planners that reflect the characteristics of the society they serve. These factors were considered as part of the research and are reflected in the approach that guided the research.
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10 Attracting, Retaining, and Developing the Transportation Workforce: Transportation Planners – ITE Planning Council – WTS (Women's Transportation Seminar) • Focus Group – Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO)
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Project Context, Research Objectives, and Approach 11 This Tool was incorporated into a QRG that included a step-by-step process for agency officials, primarily human resource and planning managers, to do the following: • Identify prospective planning KSAs for their agencies in light of current and likely future planning needs; • Develop talent profiles given external and internal (to the agency) driving forces that have been identified in their agency; • With the addition of EEs requirements, develop position or job descriptions based on these talent profiles; and • Identify strategies for assuring a strong and capable planning staff today (e.g., training and professional development needs)
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