What are the responsibilities and job description for the Transportation Planning PM position at Alliance Transportation Group, LLC?
The Transportation Planning Project Manager will, as part of a highly experienced, high energy team, manage and execute transportation planning studies for a wide variety of public sector clients throughout the US. 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:
The Transportation Planning Project Manager.
- 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
- Manages a 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:
- 7 - 10 years of relevant transportation planning and project management experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Urban and Regional Planning, Transportation Engineering, Geography, Economics, Public Administration or other related field.
- Demonstrated Project Management experience
- 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
Desired Qualifications:
- Masters Degree in Urban and Regional Planning, Transportation Engineering, Geography, Economics Public Administration, or other related field.
- AICP plus one or more of the professional certifications listed above.
- Experience managing project budgets, schedules and resources
- Basic proficiency in the use of the MS Office suite of products (e.g. MS Word, Excel, etc.) to produce report documents and tabulate data
- MS Project
- Experience with graphic programs such as Adobe Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator is preferred
- Strong proficiency in GIS and data analysis
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