WANG CAME TO WORK FOR THE
Transportation Learning Center as a
research associate in 2002. In addition
to her research portfolio, she oversees
projects on development of state-ofthe
art courseware for transit rail car
technicians, outreach to veterans and to
women seeking non-traditional jobs, and
the American Apprenticeship Initiative.
Wang has distinguished herself as
an expert on transit and transportation
labor markets and training. Early on in
her career she began collecting data to
measure the eff ectiveness of the joint
labor-management training initiatives
the center promoted. Her research into
the Keystone Transit Career Ladder
Partnership at Southeastern Pennsylvania
Transportation Authority went
into great depth, and she secured the
full cooperation of planning, operational
and fi nance staff to examine the
eff ectiveness of the Keystone training,
particularly for bus mechanics.
Expanding this research to encompass
elsewhere in Pennsylvania and in
upstate New York, she continued to
fi nd data supporting better training,
We salute our Deputy
Director Xinge Wang
for her selection as one
of the Top 40 Under 40.
Her lead
leadership inspires our
ongoing
ongoing work to improve skills
in the transit tr
industry.
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including factors like spare bus ratio,
mean distance between failures and work
brought back in-house from contractors.
Th e research was published as “Metrics
of Success” in 2009.
In 2014, Wang served as the lead
researcher on a white paper on the future
or the transportation workforce
commissioned by the U.S. Department
of Transportation, the Offi ce of Career
Technical Education at the U.S. Department
of Education and the U.S. Department
of Labor. Th e dramatic fi ndings
about critical workforce shortages across
transportation sectors continue to inform
federal policy on transportation
workforce development.
Fact:
Wang is currently
the staff lead
for the National
Rail Car Training
Consortium,
started in late
2015 to develop
standardized
national training
courseware for rail
car technicians.
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“Workforce challenges, especially on the frontline,
are often overlooked in public transportation. Over a 10-year
period, there is a need to hire, train and retain 126 percent
of the current workforce in transit. Over 90 percent of them
work in frontline operations and maintenance jobs. The
transit workforce is older than the overall transportation
workforce, and significantly older than the general
working population, so retirements are hitting harder.”
Xinge Wang
Deputy Director
Transportation
Learning Center