Building the Workforce for Coastal Transportation's Blue Economy Future

Coastal transportation infrastructure requires specialized expertise, but the workforce pipeline rarely prepares engineers, planners, and technicians for the specific challenges of coastal environments. Traditional education and training programs treat transportation as a general discipline, leaving a gap between the skills agencies need to design, maintain, and adapt infrastructure to coastal hazards and the skills new and current professionals actually have.

Training for the future

This thrust builds career pathways into coastal transportation through student outreach and professional training, including summer institutes that introduce students to transportation careers and field-based programs that train current professionals in coastal hazard resilience. Together, these efforts grow and diversify the pipeline of professionals equipped to sustain coastal infrastructure over the long term.

Projects In This Thrust