Description:
The understanding of engineering principles and spatial nature of urban settings, proficiency in handling large scale travel behavior survey data, and ability to perform complex data analytics and statistical computations are critical success factors of this role. Under the guidance of an licensed professional engineer , this position will work with a multi-disciplinary team of engineers, urban and land use planners, GIS technicians, and technologists to develop an effective analytic platform to inform potential implications of a planning or strategic decision to a variety of stakeholders, leaders and the City Council.
What will you do?
Under the direct supervision of the Senior Transportation Engineer, you will:
- Assist to develop, maintain, and execute decision support Models
- Assist developing, implementing, maintaining and executing large scale land use and travel demand models
- Incorporate engineering and urban planning principles and statistical estimation techniques into the modeling frameworks
- Manage geo-database to process large scale input and output data
- Provide assistance to maintain and track forecasting horizons scenarios and to increase operational efficiencies
- Research industry practice on advanced land use and travel demand models and contribute to the advancement of modeling techniques and toolsets for improving model productivity
Respond to Analytics Service Inquiries
- Configure the models according to the policy and scenario definition and execute model runs for assessment and evaluations
- Analyze and evaluate alternative policies and strategies related to urban growth, road, transit, and travel demand management plans
- Undertake predictive analytics for a broad variety of strategic planning projects and initiatives related to growth management, long term multimodal transportation planning, transit strategy, and Smart Transportation Plan
- Analyze the effects of regulatory measures and assess the policy implications on land use and transportation systems
- Provide background technical analysis to licensed professional engineers to prepare technical memos, reports for clients and stakeholders
- Undertake technical analysis related to carbon accounting and GHG estimation
Communications and Engagement
- Provide assistance in preparing infographics based on modeling outputs and results to communicate the story to the management
- Assist in developing interactive visual tools and dashboards through strategic use of technology to communicate modeling results
- Collaborate with teams, groups and subject matter experts from both the inside and the outside of the Unit to increase knowledge and understand business needs
- Prepare technical reports for signing engineer’s review
- Participate in the technical and non technical discussions to better enable the deliverables
- Present the results and visualizations to both technical and non technical audiences
- Perform other duties as assigned