APTA offers an array of online education opportunities.
Webcasts & Webinars
Webinars are offered throughout the year on topics relevant and vital to the public transportation industry, focusing specifically on today's transit needs.
Webinars offer transit agencies and business members alike the opportunity to take advantage of an invaluable educational resource from anywhere with an internet connection and telephone. Webinars are a terrific opportunity to offer cutting edge interactive training opportunities to one or 100 of your staff. We encourage all members to make APTA webinars part of your professional development program.
Business Member Webinars
- Maximizing Your Investment in APTA: Lessons Learned by Small Business Members of APTA (members only)
For APTA DBE and Small Business Members
This webinar was created to provide business members going to their first APTA conference with ideas on how to create a business strategy for the conference, tips about what to expect when they get there. It also provides information on the opportunities and resources that APTA provides to its members. The webinar is a project of the Business Member Small Business Committee.
Labor Management Relations Webinars
APTA’s Labor Relations Subcommittee will feature three webinar sessions during the course of the 2012 calendar year. These 60-minute sessions will address a broad range of transit labor management relations issues, challenges, and solutions. See below for details of a recent webinar session.
Economic Sustainability Webinars
This free monthly series of webinars – November 2011 through June 2012 – is for board members and executives of APTA-member public transportation systems on the theme of an APTA strategic goal, economic sustainability.
Supervisory Skills Training for New Transit Operations and Maintenance Supervisors
This unique webinar series is designed to help new transit operations and maintenance supervisors learn about some fundamental core competencies and related skills important for their success. (members-only)
Online Training
In collaboration with APTA members and representatives from organized labor, APTA has developed specialized online training programs for the Rail Industry. These courses will be available in upcoming months:
- Introduction to DC Track Circuits for Signal Maintainers
- Introduction to AC Track Circuits for Signal Maintainers