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5 Introduction Vehicle automation is not a new concept but has recently seen significant technological progress, and there has been significant investment and attention from both the private and public sectors. In the public transit industry, transit vehicle automation has generated substantial research and innovation; however, many challenges remain before full-scale adoption of automated transit vehicles can take place.
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6 The Impacts of Vehicle Automation on the Public Transportation Workforce 1.1 Disclaimers This report does not attempt to be an exhaustive and final analysis on either transit vehicle automation or its effects on the transit workforce. This report often uses the words potential, likely, and possible and their synonyms to help readers remember the uncertainty with which statements about transit service automation are made.
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Introduction 7 Term Definition Affected employees Transit employees who are in a transit job affected by the adoption of automated transit services. Affected transit job A transit job (e.g., bus mechanic)
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8 The Impacts of Vehicle Automation on the Public Transportation Workforce Appendix Title Brief Description Appendix A: Description of Methodology to Estimate FTEs per Directly Affected Operations Job Describes how the research team estimated the current number of jobs in each directly affected operations job for each mode and transit agency type. Appendix B: Directly Affected Operations Job Profiles Describes the typical job functions and KSAs for each of the directly affected operations jobs.
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Introduction 9 Foundational to the study were the identi cation and selection of a limited number of transit automation use cases -- speci c automated transit services for which automated transit vehicles could be conceivably used, and for which there is current progress and signi cant interest. (Chapter 3 discusses the ve transit automation use cases and how they were selected.)
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10 The Impacts of Vehicle Automation on the Public Transportation Workforce planning and policy decisions and then incorporate those assumptions into the workforce effect calculator. The workforce effect calculator provided a tool by which the research team could estimate the number of changed jobs and job gains or losses that might result from the adoption of each use case.
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Introduction 11 developed typical task lists for each job. The team created a framework for the workforce effect calculator to model the number of automation-effected employees in each job -- disaggregated by bus transit mode and agency type (i.e., rural, small urban, and large urban)
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12 The Impacts of Vehicle Automation on the Public Transportation Workforce transit agencies, AV firms, and a representative from a transit union. The in-person workshop sought to collect feedback from the transit industry about key planning and policy decisions that would have implications on workforce effects of transit vehicle automation.
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