TCRP—Project F-32: Enhancing Transit Organizational Culture to Improve Employee Psychological Health and Safety, Recruitment, and Retention
You are invited to participate in a survey of transit agency employees, executives, and labor union local representatives being conducted by the International Transportation Learning Center (ITLC), Texas A&M Transportation Institute, and Beverly Scott Associates. The survey is part of a project of the Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP)—Project F-32: Enhancing Transit Organizational Culture to Improve Employee Psychological Health and Safety, Recruitment, and Retention. TCRP is a program of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
The goal of the project is to produce a guide to support transit industry stakeholders in implementing strategies to improve worker recruitment and retention through enhanced organizational culture and heightened attention to workers’ psychological health and safety. Your participation in this survey is critical to ensure that the guide provides effective and realistic advice for transit agencies.
Your participation and responses to this survey will be kept confidential. Your employer will not be notified if you complete the survey. Your participation is also completely voluntary. If at any time you wish to stop participating, you are free to do so with no penalty to you. Providing your name, title, and contact information is optional; however, providing it will assist the researchers in following up during subsequent phases of the project. Providing the name and location of your transit agency is required to assist the researchers in their analysis, including linking to National Transit Database (NTD) data, summarizing response rates by agency and NTD agency characteristics, and identifying potential case study locations.
All survey responses will be kept confidential and reported in an aggregated format (e.g., in tables); agencies and respondents will not be named in the guide or final report without express written consent. Any information that could identify you will be kept for the shortest time possible on a secure server and available only to the research team. After information that could identify you has been removed, de-identified responses may be used by or distributed to investigators for other research without obtaining additional informed consent from you.
The survey should take about 15-20 minutes to complete. If you have any questions at any time about the research or procedures, or if you need assistance in completing the survey, you may contact the Principal Investigator, Xinge Wang, ITLC Deputy Director.