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38 C H A P T E R 4 Although transit vehicle automation would likely affect, directly or indirectly, many different current transit jobs at all organizational levels and could even create new jobs that do not exist today, the research team focused the analysis on a subset of current transit jobs that would likely experience the effects of transit vehicle automation most directly. Based on the selected use cases, the research team created a taxonomy of likely-to-be-affected jobs: directly affected operations jobs and indirectly affected key jobs.
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Job Profiles of Targeted Transit Jobs 39 – Demand-response dispatcher/controller: A dispatcher/controller whose job is mainly to support demand-response transit service (e.g., dial-a-ride and ADA paratransit service)
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40 The Impacts of Vehicle Automation on the Public Transportation Workforce • Bus operators are generally older than other blue-collar workers (see Figure 6)
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Job Profiles of Targeted Transit Jobs 41 to obtain the credentials needed to qualify for new, technology-driven automation-related jobs. Second, some bus operators may opt to retire out of their positions instead of transitioning to new positions.
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42 The Impacts of Vehicle Automation on the Public Transportation Workforce its positions. Federal statistical agencies rely on standard taxonomies to classify industry and occupation, the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS)
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Job Profiles of Targeted Transit Jobs 43 who are assigned to his or her garage. May be responsible for ensuring that all open runs are filled and pull-out is made daily.
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44 The Impacts of Vehicle Automation on the Public Transportation Workforce officers working for the transit agency or for local/state governments and civilian security personnel (e.g., security guards)
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