Senior Transportation Planner - Travel Demand Modeler

Job Description
AECOM is seeking a talented and experienced Senior Transportation Engineer or Transportation Planner to be part of our team supporting our client, Florida Turnpike Enterprise located in Ocoee, Florida. Join a team of AECOM engineering and planner professionals providing platinum technical services to one of our most admired clients.
This position will be responsible for the application of the recently developed statewide tour-based model along with the application of regional travel demand models. The job duties include fulfillment of scripting requests for innovative toll project evaluations while contributing to a multidisciplinary team specializing in planning, economic feasibility analysis, and design of toll roads. These projects are technology-forward and will lead travel demand analysis for toll roadway infrastructure.
The Transportation Engineer/Planner will utilize skills and experience to create and update model code for travel demand model development activities using various modeling tools including but not limited to Visum, TransCAD, QGIS, R, and Python software.
The Engineer/Planner will work to assemble and prepare data for model validation and long-range future year travel forecasts;
conduct model validation to required accuracy standards;
develop traffic forecasts for toll road projects;
and prepare the documentation of results. As part of the model design, the Engineer/Planner will use QGIS/ArcGIS with related database development and application skills, along with SQL/Python/R or other programming languages. The position will also utilize analytical skills for research on design, data development, and statistical analyses to address perceived model shortcomings and recommend an improved modeling approach.