The Transportation Planner will help to execute transportation planning studies for a wide variety of public sector clients. Types of studies include but are not limited to:
- Metropolitan Transportation Plans
- Short-, Mid-, and Long-Range Transportation and Mobility Plans
- Transportation Master Plans
- Transit Development Plans
- High-Capacity Transit (BRT, LRT, Commuter Rail, etc.) Studies
- Corridor and Feasibility Studies
Responsibilities:
- Uses planning data, analysis, and report products to successfully complete multimodal transportation system planning studies, multi-modal corridor studies, environmental analysis and other transportation planning activities.
- Accesses and analyzes information prepared by others in a geographic information system (GIS) format
- Interacts with clients and planning and engineering project teams
- Variety of transportation planning projects and tasks, which could include transit planning, and operations analysis, travel demand/transit demand analysis and forecasting, analysis of travel patterns and transportation conditions, traffic simulation and traffic operations analysis, development of transportation system and corridor alternatives.
- Participate in public meetings or hearings to explain planning proposals, to gather feedback from those affected by projects, or to achieve consensus on planning studies.
Required Qualifications:
- 3 - 8 years of relevant transportation planning experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Urban and Regional Planning, Transportation Engineering, Geography, Economics, Public Administration or other related field.
- Strong oral and written communications skills and be capable of public speaking in small group settings.
- Understanding of the principles of multimodal transportation systems planning, scenario based planning and the linkages between land use and transportation.
- Ability to articulate and apply sustainability principles in the planning process
