Building Professional Capacity in ITS: Guidelines for Staffing, Hiring, and211 Designing Ideal Project Teams

摘要

This document is a guide for decision makers within transportation agencies who211u001eare responsible for staffing, hiring, and designing project teams for ITS. These 211u001edecision makers must consider not only the ITS competencies of current staff, but 211u001ealso the qualifications of future staff and of team members from other agencies. 211u001eThese issues compel decision makers to develop strategies and programs for 211u001ebuilding and maintaining organizational professional capacity. This guide also 211u001ehighlights the current needs and concerns in building organizational professional 211u001ecapacity for ITS. It uses information gathered from nearly 200 interviews with 211u001etransportation professional engaged in ITS around the nation in the summer of 211u001e1998. These professionals represented a wide variety of responsibilities and 211u001efunctions in public-and private sector transportation agencies and organizations. 211u001eThis guide presents how different types of agencies tend to be involved in ITS. 211u001eThese categorizations are not meant to be prescriptive, nor to illustrate an 211u001eideal. Rather, the guidelines are intended to convey effective practices based on 211u001einterviewees who described their agency's activities and projects, the type of 211u001eteam members that made the activities most successful, and the knowledge, skills, 211u001eand abilities (i.e., competencies) that are needed to meet project goals.