Senior Transportation Planner/Modeler

ATCS•Herndon, VA

17d•Hybrid

About The Position

ATCS is seeking a Senior Transportation Planner/Modeler to join its growing team. Based at the company’s Herndon, Virginia headquarters, this is a hybrid position focused on travel and urban modeling, transportation planning, and related traffic analyses. The role applies travel and land use models to forecast travel behavior, land use patterns, and household and employment trends; assess transportation system performance; and analyze transportation- and land use-related policies. The position also contributes to better analytical tools and processes across the team. ATCS offers a salary range of $105,000 to $150,000 per year, commensurate with experience and qualifications. The role is eligible for an annual bonus with a target of 2% of annualized salary. Full-time employees become eligible for benefits coverage on the first day of the month following their start date. ATCS is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s or master’s degree in an appropriate field related to traffic engineering and/or transportation planning.
10 or more years of experience in travel demand forecast modeling, network modeling, and/or socioeconomic modeling.
Familiarity with travel demand forecast software, including CUBE, TransCad, Synchro, and/or VISSIM.
Programming skills in Python and/or R for collecting, cleaning, coding, and analyzing data.
Interpersonal skills and ability to work in a project and team environment.

Nice To Haves

Experience synthesizing technical information to facilitate sound policy and planning decisions.
Data visualization experience.
Knowledge of the complexity of the transportation system and land use/transportation issues.

Responsibilities

Apply travel models to forecast travel behavior, assess transportation system performance, and analyze impacts of transportation-related policies.
Apply urban, land use, or socio-economic models to forecast land use patterns and household and employment trends and analyze land use-related policies.
Conduct model calibration and validation, including preparing datasets, designing and conducting sensitivity tests, and drafting technical reports.
Create model input data, including demographic characteristics, land use conditions, transportation networks, and policy scenarios.
Interpret modeling output and communicate analytical findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for datasets, processes, and codebases.
Contribute to improving analytical tools and processes, including researching and adopting coding best practices, streamlining data pipelines, automating repetitive tasks, and using collaborative tools and platforms.
Support other traffic operations analyses and traffic engineering tasks as needed.