Job Description

Transportation Planner / Engineer - Travel Demand Modeler

AECOM is looking for a skilled and experienced Transportation Engineer/Planner/Travel Demand Modeler to join our team supporting Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise in Ocoee, Florida, right in the heart of the Orlando area.

This role involves applying the newly developed statewide tour-based model as well as regional travel demand models. Responsibilities include developing scripts for innovative toll project evaluations and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team on planning, economic feasibility analysis, and toll road design. The Transportation Engineer/Planner/Travel Demand Modeler will leverage their skills and experience to develop and update model code for travel demand modeling, using software such as Visum, TransCAD, QGIS, R, and Python.

Living in the Orlando area offers a fantastic quality of life with its vibrant community, beautiful weather, and endless entertainment options. This is a great opportunity to advance your career while enjoying all that Orlando has to offer.

If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you!

• Model Development: Create and refine model code for travel demand modeling.
• Data Preparation: Assemble and prepare data for model validation and long-range travel forecasts.
• Model Validation: Ensure models meet required accuracy standards.
• Forecast Development: Generate forecasts for toll road projects.
• Documentation: Document results of modeling and forecasting efforts.
• GIS Application: Use QGIS/ArcGIS for model design and related database development.
• Programming: Utilize SQL, Python, R, or other programming languages for model development.
• Research and Analysis: Conduct research on design, data development, and statistical analyses to improve modeling approaches

You will have the opportunity to present modeling results to various stakeholders, including clients, TRB and IBTTA conference attendees, and model user groups.

Join our dynamic team and unlock your potential with this unparalleled opportunity to innovate, grow, and make a meaningful impact.

Qualifications

Minimum:

• Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Urban Planning, Data Science, or a related field
• 4+ years of relevant transportation modeling experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education.
• Experience and knowledge of the principles, practices, and objectives of transportation planning applications, specifically the 4-Step process of travel demand modeling, Activity-Based Models, micro-simulation, and dynamic traffic assignment.
• Experience and knowledge of GIS and database analysis, including developing scripts to process data in and out of GIS files or automated routines in QGIS / ArcGIS.
• Experience and knowledge of choice models, development, and application to travel demand, including the use of econometrics in estimating demand models from survey data.
• Programming experience with at least two of the following: Microsoft Visual Studio, SQL, C++, Python, R, JAVA.
• Experience and knowledge of travel demand modeling software, such as Cube, TransCAD, TRANSIMS, and VISUM

Preferred:

• Utilization of advanced techniques with modification and extension of theories, precepts, and practices of planning sciences, data sciences and related disciplines.
• Master’s or PhD degree in related field

Additional Information

Relocation is not an option for this position
Visa support is an option for this position

About AECOM

AECOM is proud to offer comprehensive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status, AECOM benefits may include medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, disability benefits, paid time off, leaves of absences, voluntary benefits, perks, well-being resources, employee assistance program, business travel insurance, service recognition awards, retirement savings plan, and employee stock purchase plan.

AECOM is the world’s trusted infrastructure consulting firm, delivering professional services throughout the project lifecycle – from advisory, planning, design and engineering to program and construction management. On projects spanning transportation, buildings, water, new energy and the environment, our public- and private-sector clients trust us to solve their most complex challenges. Our teams are driven by a common purpose to deliver a better world through our unrivaled technical and digital expertise, a culture of equity, diversity and inclusion, and a commitment to environmental, social and governance priorities. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm and its Professional Services business had revenue of $14.4 billion in fiscal year 2023. See how we are delivering sustainable legacies for generations to come at aecom.com and @AECOM.

Freedom to Grow in a World of Opportunity

You will have the flexibility you need to do your best work with hybrid work options. Whether you’re working from an AECOM office, remote location or at a client site, you will be working in a dynamic environment where your integrity, entrepreneurial spirit and pioneering mindset are championed.

You will help us foster a safe and respectful workplace, where we invite everyone to bring their whole selves to work using their unique talents, backgrounds and expertise to create transformational outcomes for our clients.

AECOM provides a wide array of compensation, benefits and well-being programs to meet the diverse needs of our employees and their families. We’re the world’s trusted global infrastructure firm, and we’re in this together – your growth and success are ours too.

Join us, and you’ll get all the benefits of being a part of a global, publicly traded firm – access to industry-leading technology and thinking and transformational work with big impact and work flexibility. As an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person’s potential, and we’ll help you reach yours.

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