Best Practices for Transportation Agency Use of Social Media (2013)
Publisher: CRC Press
Publication Year: 2013
External Link: https://www.crcpress.com/Best-Practices-for-Transportation-Agency-Use-of-Social-Media/Bregman-Watkins/p/book/9781466568600
Publication Year: 2013
External Link: https://www.crcpress.com/Best-Practices-for-Transportation-Agency-Use-of-Social-Media/Bregman-Watkins/p/book/9781466568600
Resource Summary: The textbook provides explores various social media platforms and tools, with examples of how transportation organizations use each platform. Using a series of interviews, it illustrates what innovative agencies are doing to leverage social media tools to provide better service. It reveals lessons learned from various transportation agencies, including a regional airport, city and state departments of transportation, and municipal transit agencies.
Change Forces
- Changing Demographics
- Customer Focus
- Engaging with Stakeholders
- Public Expectations
- Public Information Requests
- Technology Advancement
- Workforce Evolution
Needs
- Aligning Skills to Needs
- Collaboration
- Communications
- Data
- Efficiency and Decision Support
- Interpersonal
- New Skills
- Operations Focus
- Shifting Responsibilities
- Social Media and Crowdsourcing
- Technology Adoption
- Transparency
- Younger Employees
Strategies
- Technologies
- Services
- Partnerships
- P3
- Information and Data Management