Description
Analyze transportation systems and proposed projects using data, models, and simulations; prepare technical studies, evaluate performance and impacts, and support planning, policy, and investment decisions.
- • Compile, clean, and analyze multimodal transportation data.
- • Prepare and review technical analyses for transportation studies.
- • Develop, calibrate, and validate travel demand and microsimulation models.
- • Design and manage traffic counts and other data collection programs.
- • Build and maintain GIS datasets, roadway classifications, and boundaries.
- • Interpret results from traffic models, GIS, and related databases.
- • Conduct transportation impact analyses for development proposals.
- • Prepare data-driven recommendations for system improvements and projects.
- • Evaluate project needs, costs, and benefits using quantitative methods.
- • Produce technical reports, dashboards, and visualizations.
- • Contribute analytic sections to environmental assessments and impact statements.
- • Support permit and approval packages with required analyses and documentation.
- • Test and document new methods or models of transportation analysis.
- • Analyze policy, land use, and long-range planning scenarios and their impacts.
- • Collaborate with engineers and planners to resolve complex design or operational issues.
- • Design and analyze surveys to capture user behavior and public concerns.
- • Participate in stakeholder and public meetings to present findings.
- • Monitor system performance metrics and develop performance dashboards.
- • Conduct safety, reliability, and congestion analyses.
- • Evaluate equity, accessibility, and sustainability outcomes of projects.
- • Automate workflows and maintain reproducible analysis code.
- • Support agencies in legislative or administrative reviews with objective analysis.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
