Transportation Planner

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