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45 C H A P T E R 5 This chapter presents the research team's work to engage the transit industry during the course of the research. The purpose of industry engagement was to present transit industry stakeholders with the research team's initial thoughts about transit automation use cases and likely affected transit jobs and obtain feedback on the identified planning and policy decisions for each use case to help the research team build assumptions into the workforce effect calculator.
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46 The Impacts of Vehicle Automation on the Public Transportation Workforce – Supporting technologies. – Potential timelines.
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Industry Engagement 47 The survey explored if front-line employees had concerns or perceived benefits regarding automated transit vehicles, and if so, what those concerns were. The survey also asked respondents to identify their job titles and whether they were part of a labor union.
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48 The Impacts of Vehicle Automation on the Public Transportation Workforce • An open-ended question that asked for an explanation of ratings given in the previous question. The research team placed the open-ended question about perceived concerns/benefits of the use case before the rating questions to give respondents a chance to describe their perceived concerns/benefits in their own words before the survey introduced ideas to them in the rating question.
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Industry Engagement 49 A PDF version of the full online survey is available in Attachment 4. The entire survey protocol was reviewed and approved by Texas A&M University's Institutional Review Board.
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50 The Impacts of Vehicle Automation on the Public Transportation Workforce 5.2.1.3 Data Cleaning and Analysis A total of 129 valid survey responses were collected. The collected survey data were cleaned and analyzed by the research team using both qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques.
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Industry Engagement 51 On the other hand, a few respondents expected that automation would increase productivity and road safety. One respondent stated, "This may cut down on the small amount of accidents that occur on property.
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52 The Impacts of Vehicle Automation on the Public Transportation Workforce 5.3 Industry Webinars The research team held two interactive industry webinars on June 16 and 18, 2020, to obtain feedback from the transit industry on the key planning and policy decisions that will have implications on the workforce effects of transit vehicle automation (see Figure 9)
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Industry Engagement 53 Figure 10. Example of a live polling question and responses received during the industry webinar.
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54 The Impacts of Vehicle Automation on the Public Transportation Workforce Agency Type Total Rural/Tribal Small Urban Large Urban Not an Agency No Answer Number of Attendees 1 8 35 25 20 89 Introductory Questions and Number of Responses Have you ever ridden in an autonomous shuttle? Yes 0 4 17 8 1 30 No 1 3 14 15 0 33 Not Answered 0 1 4 2 19 26 What type of agency or organization best describes where you currently work (or most recently worked)
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