We invite you to participate in one of our targeted 5-minute surveys to analyze gaps in the current state of the art for transit education. Your input will help attract, retain, and develop future public transportation employees through enriched transit education in Canada.

As the public transit industry continues to grow and advance in many ways, it needs a talented and skilled workforce to support its innovation and expansion. Increased retirements, among other factors, have placed a growing need for new skilled public transportation planners and engineers.

Minding the Gap is a research project, spearheaded by Timothy Young (PhD Candidate, York University), and Patrick Yutiga (Chair, Youth & Emerging Leaders Sub-Committee) that seeks to evaluate the availability and suitability of transit content in Canadian university programs to support the workforce and skillset needs of transit today and in the future.

Preliminary research has found that the current accredited planning and engineering curricula lack dedicated public transit courses in planning and engineering, which can lead to knowledge gaps and the creation of barriers to pursuing transit as a career.

The objective of Minding the Gap is to create a new educational framework for transit material at the Canadian university level to enable and engage interested students and provide them with knowledge and practical skills to easily transition to the transit industry.

Please fill out the survey below that best reflects your status within the public transit industry:

Student: Bit.ly/Student_MTG

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Educator: Bit.Ly/Educator_MTG