Mobility Skills & Workforce for the Transition

The urban mobility transition is constrained not only by technology and finance, but also by people, including recruitment, retention and the ability to reskill. This session invites contributions on workforce strategies that make the transition deliverable and fair. The discussion will cover reskilling and upskilling for e.g. electrified fleets, digital operations and data-enabled planning, organisational change in operators and city administrations, and new roles emerging from mobility hubs, multimodal systems and integrated planning. We will receive contributions from the transport workers perspectives, gender point of view as well as business and city needs and practice. 

The session aims to produce a replication-oriented set of practices, including partnerships with vocational schools and universities, operator-led academies, regional skills alliances and management approaches that improve job quality and diversity while enabling system modernisation.