Description: Across the transit industry frontline employees are consistently promoted to supervisor roles, overseeing groups or teams of frontline workers, without substantive management training. It is reasonable to assume there are scores of transit frontline supervisors that have little to no formal management training. Transit agency departments/divisions managed by under-trained supervisors could realize increased […]
Transit Maintenance Leadership Workshop
No Deliveries Currently Please keep checking back, another session will be held later in 2020. The National Transit Institute (NTI) is pleased to announce a new delivery of this professional development opportunity, created specifically for senior-level public transit maintenance leaders. You must apply and be accepted to attend this fee-based workshop. The workshop curriculum will: Support […]
Bus Procurement Workshop
No Deliveries Currently Please keep checking back. Description: As the buses available to the transit industry have expanded to include high tech fleets, purchasing a vehicle has become more complicated and requires discussions with the manufacturers to get the bus that will best meet the agency’s needs. A well thought out, streamlined, procurement process not […]
Introduction to Transit Service Planning
Description: This course seeks to enable participants to understand the public transit service planning process from concept design through service implementation and service evaluation. By the end of the course, participants will be able to undertake conceptual service planning, including service design/redesign, routing and scheduling, stop design, transit service budgeting and resource allocation, and calculating […]
Leading as a Mid-Manager in Today’s Public Transportation
This course is currently being revised and will be offered again in early 2020. Description: This program provides a unique training and educational opportunity for the transit managers and supervisors who hold mid-level positions in transit organizations. Audience: Mid-managers Objectives: This course offering will provide participants with skills necessary to lead, manage, and supervise […]
Transit Academy
No Deliveries Currently Please check back soon! Description: The Transit Academy is a comprehensive, behind-the-scenes study of a major transit system. It is designed to provide those new to transit with an in-depth understanding of the scope of responsibilities, variety of skills and range of activities that work together in delivering safe and efficient transit […]
Senior Leadership
This course is currently being revised and will be offered again in early 2020. Description: NTI, in contracting with New York University’s Rudin Center for Transportation Policy and Management has developed a course in senior leadership for transit industry professionals. The Senior Leadership program provides a unique training and educational opportunity for upper level transit […]
Project Management for Transit Professionals
Description: The goal of this course is to help transit professionals appreciate the importance of analyzing, leading, and managing the complexities of transit projects by providing them with the tools to foster success. Objectives: By the end of this course participants will be able to: Describe the major components […]
Managing Community Mobility
No Deliveries Currently Please keep checking back. Description: The customer base for transportation services has expanded greatly. Due to demographic shifts, changing job markets, environmental concerns, increasing pressure to find alternatives to the single-occupancy vehicle, and suburban/exurban land use patterns, the transportation needs of the population are changing and increasing. Characteristics of travelers today […]
Fundamentals of Transit Supervision
This course is currently being revised and will be offered again in early 2020. Description: The course is designed to provide transit supervisors with a better understanding of their role whether they are new to supervision or have been a supervisor for a while and are interested in brushing up on their skills. Participants will […]