Workforce

Issues & Modes / Workforce

More than 13 million jobs—about 9 percent of civilian workforce in the United States—are transportation-related. This workforce pipeline includes a multitude of professions from bus and truck drivers, to autoworkers and engineers, in both motorized and non-motorized modes. Due to industry growth, transportation also has the potential to be a major U.S. job creator. Millions of workers will need to be hired to fill vacancies created by occupational transfers, retirements and other exits. However, certain transportation sectors are already facing critical workforce shortfalls and new governance models sometimes fail to take into consideration adequate protections for existing workers.

House T&I Approves 16 Surface and Maritime Transportation Bills

The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee this week approved sixteen bills making discrete policy changes to trucking law,...

GAO Catalogs Aviation Workforce Woes

The U.S. Government Accountability Office this week issued a new report detailing the workforce challenges that the U.S. aviation...

House T&I Committee Discusses Overcoming Supply Chain Challenges

On Wednesday, May 10, the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure met to discuss overcoming supply chain challenges faced...

Short Leave: House Committee Addresses Recruitment and Retention in USCG

The House Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation held a hearing on May 11 to discuss the shortage of United States...

Eno Welcomes Public Health PhD Candidate as 2023 Thomas J. O’Bryant Fellow

The Eno Center for Transportation has selected Glendedora Dolce as our 2023 Thomas J. O’Bryant Fellow. The fellowship is designed to...

Aviation Subcommittee Tackles Workforce Training, Shortages, and Diversity

On Wednesday, April 19, the Subcommittee on Aviation of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee held a hearing to discuss...

House Committee Discusses Future of Flight

On Thursday, March 30, the Subcommittee on Aviation under the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee met to discuss the evolution...

A Fright for Sore Flie(r)s: Senators Tackle Consumer Protection in Latest Hearing

Although airlines seem to be soaring after suffering a brutal couple of years (thanks, COVID-19), their passengers just aren’t as...

House Prepares to Take Off with FAA Reauthorization

In 2018, President Donald Trump signed the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) five-year reauthorization bill into law in a private...

Letter from the Guest Editor, Jannet Walker Ford

Dear Eno Transportation Weekly Readers, It is an honor and a pleasure to be the guest editor for the 2023 “Women Take Over”...

Ensuring the Green Jobs are Good Jobs

I am a daughter of Alabama, born and raised, and before I joined Jobs to Move America in 2020, I spent 17 years as an union organizer,...

Women at the Frontline of Transit

The International Transportation Learning Center (ITLC) was established in 2001 to develop training and career ladder systems for...

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