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55 C H A P T E R 6 To estimate the direction and magnitude of the potential transit workforce effects of transit service automation, the research team created a workforce effect calculator. The calculator estimated job gains or losses and the number of current employees who would experience job duty changes significant enough that additional training would benefit the employees' on-the-job performance and success (called job description changes)
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56 The Impacts of Vehicle Automation on the Public Transportation Workforce • The planning and policy decisions: The interplay between use cases, agency types, and job tasks is yet unclear. However, the research team itemized these uncertainties and discussed them with the transit industry as planning and policy decisions.
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Workforce Effect Calculator Methodology 57 the operational impacts (how much current service would be replaced with automation and how automated service would actually operate)
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58 The Impacts of Vehicle Automation on the Public Transportation Workforce 6.2.2 Build Impact Tree As previously discussed, there is a significant amount of uncertainty regarding the application and effects of transit vehicle automation. To increase the interpretability of the research results and control the number of assumptions built into workforce effect estimates, the research team narrowed its effect analysis to focus on existing employees and existing service replacements and did not model the effects of potential increases in service.
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Workforce Effect Calculator Methodology 59 6.2.3 Create Concepts of Operations for Operational Models As discussed in Section 2.6.4, the research team developed two operational models for the automated transit services operated under each use case: (1) in-person operations and (2)
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60 The Impacts of Vehicle Automation on the Public Transportation Workforce dedicated to driving the vehicle. Because the person on board is no longer operating the vehicle, the research team referred to this position as an attendant.
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Workforce Effect Calculator Methodology 61 Task ID Title Task Description Approx. Number of Daily Hours Percent of Daily Hours Op.
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62 The Impacts of Vehicle Automation on the Public Transportation Workforce All task lists and corresponding task impact ratios can be found in Attachment 8. In general, the research team anticipated the following changes to individual jobs: • Operators: – With remote operations, operator jobs would be reduced because each remote operator would have a caseload of multiple vehicles to be monitored and interacted with remotely.
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Workforce Effect Calculator Methodology 63 • Service persons: Service persons would basically continue their current jobs, except that they would need the technical capabilities to inspect and clean the automation-supporting hardware. The additional technological systems installed on automated transit vehicles would likely increase the amount of time needed to complete the necessary inspection and cleaning tasks.
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64 The Impacts of Vehicle Automation on the Public Transportation Workforce The definition of each output is provided as follows: • Current employees: The number of FTE employees currently working with the conventionally driven transit service that the use case could replace. Calculated based on the type of conventionally driven service to which the use case applied (e.g., low-speed automated shuttles applied to fixed-route feeder and/or circulator services)
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