Overview
Planner – Transportation Demand Management Jobs in Atlanta, Georgia, USA at Mannik Smith Group
Planner I – Transportation Demand Management
Department:Transportation Demand Management (TDM)
Employment Type:Full Time
Location:Atlanta, GA
Compensation:$60,000 – $72,000 / year
Description
Alta Planning + Design seeks aPlanner Ito join ourTransportation Demand Management (TDM)Practice in ourAtlanta, GAoffice. This production-level position is an excellent opportunity for someone who believes in the importance of active, multimodal, and sustainable transportation and is interested in growing their career as a TDM planning professional. If you are looking to join aninnovativeorganization and work on projects that connect people to places while advancing social justice, safety, and environmentalresilience, apply with Alta today!
About Alta
Alta Planning + Design is a sustainable transportation company dedicated to creating active, healthy communities through planning, landscape architecture, engineering, andeducation/encouragement programs. Founded in 1996, Alta pioneered the field of active transportation, and today, our work empowers people to live active, healthy lives and gets them where they need to go. We are a global leader in mobilityinnovation, committed to social justice, safety, and environmentalresilience.
TDM at Alta
TDM describes the use of strategies to inform and encourage employees and residents to make transportation choices that maximize the efficiency of our transportation system leading to improved mobility, reduced congestion, and lower vehicle emissions. Alta’s TDM practice is one of the largest in North America and as a full-service TDM practice encompasses three groups: TDM Planning, TDM Programs, and TDM Marketing.
Our TDM planners lead TDM plans ranging in scale from site-specific to regional plans, develop TDM policies, and provide planning, data analysis, and evaluation services to the TDM programs and marketing projects Alta leads, working closely with the TDM Programs and Marketing groups.
Day to Day
The TDM planner in our Atlanta office will work on the following types of projects:
Supporting three Atlanta transportation management associations (TMAs) and TDM programs in other parts of the country with planning tasks (approximately 60% of time)
This typically includes working closely with a senior planner and TDM program managers on survey development and analysis for program development and evaluation purposes, GIS mapping, and development of TDM recommendations. May also include site visits and fieldwork.
TMA support usually includes a variety of related transportation planning work. In the past, planners have worked on first/last mile projects, shuttle assistance, shared-use mobility pilot programs, and research on various TDM and mobility topics.
Supporting TDM plans or related transportation and mobility plans, projects, and research tasks (approximately 40% of time)
The planner will perform the following activities under the guidance of senior planners, the TDM Planning Group Director, and project managers:
Assist with developing tools and surveys to analyze the effectiveness of TDM programs
Analyze data using Excel, Qualtrics, and other analysis tools
Develop maps and geospatial analyses using ArcGIS Pro
Conduct best practices research in the field of transportation planning and transportation demand management
Assist with collecting input from stakeholder groups for thepurposeof aiding the development of transportation plans and recommendations
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Title: Planner – Transportation Demand Management
Company: Mannik Smith Group
Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Category: Engineering, Transportation
