Transportation Planner Job Description
Transportation planner
provides full time in-house transportation planning/ data support services to the Florida Department of Transportation Central Office.
Transportation Planner Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Experience/familiarity with traffic analysis software’s and also GIS
Analyze carrier trends and identify service related issues
Manages shipments to insure timely routing, routing response, and carrier pick up
Determines the validity of customer chargeback claims
Address daily reports showing loads appointed for delivery after the Required Delivery Date (RDD) or that have no delivery appt
Perform traffic simulation and capacity analysis
Develop project level traffic forecasts
Develops travel demand models
Researches and analyzes technical data for studies and reports
Develops preliminary site plans for residential, commercial, industrial, recreational or transportation uses
Transportation Planner Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Transportation Planner
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: AICP, PE, CEP, RA, RLA, EIT, EI, PMP, LEED, PTP
Education for Transportation Planner
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the transportation planner job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Business, Civil Engineering, Education, Management, Supply Chain Management, Geography, Public Policy, Landscape Architecture, Economics
Skills for Transportation Planner
Desired skills for transportation planner include:
SAP
Transportation industry
Design/planning procedures in relevant jurisdictions
Internet applications
Microsoft Office
Transportation software and geography
Excel and PowerPoint
GIS
Excel
Principles and practices of planning
Desired experience for transportation planner includes:
Bachelor’s degree in Planning, Transportation, Urban Planning or related study
Knowledge of principles and practices of transportation planning, research and data collection
Knowledge of federal, state and local programs related to transportation planning
Strong oral and written communication skills, including writing, editing and preparation of technical reports and presentations to government entities and various committees, communities and general public
Bachelor's Degree in Urban Planning, Civil Engineering or closely related field plus 2 years of experience
Direct experience with travel demand software packages, particularly Cube/TP+/Voyager
Transportation Planner Examples
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Transportation Planner Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is looking for a transportation planner. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for transportation planner
- May be involved in analysis of specific technical areas
- Conducts land development, traffic, or environmental impact studies and writes technical portions of reports
- May perform limited portions of a broader assignment of an experienced planner, using prescribed methods
- Managing major projects (transit, roadway planning, corridor studies)
- Traffic and transportation operations analysis and modeling for multiple types of projects and clients
- Planning and guidance related to the design of provincial highways
- Planning and designing transportation improvement projects on regional, arterial, and local corridors
- Multi-modal assessments
- Transportation Impact Assessments
- Transportation Master Plans
Qualifications for transportation planner
- TMS (Transportation Management Systems) OTM
- Transportation Regulatory Compliance DOT, FAA , Hazmat
- Yard Management Systems Trailer /Container Control Systems or similar tools
- Statistical analysis experience as it relates to travel demand modeling
- Programing languages (e.g., C++, Visual Basic, Java, PHP, Perl, Python, ) a plus
- BS or MS in transportation, urban, regional or land use planning
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a transportation planner. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for transportation planner
- Parking Studies
- Transportation Demand Management
- Strategic transportation advisory services
- Monitor scheduled shipments for on time loads and deliveries
- Actively search for ways to decrease transportation costs through aggregations, consolidations, volume quotes, mode selection
- Shipment Planning – Plan, tender and route daily shipments within the transportation management system (TMS) to ensure that cost and service parameters are effectively achieved
- Shipment Coordination - Provide execution support as required to achieve or exceed Chiquita on time delivery and Quality/Cold Chain performance goals
- Coordinate changes to planned shipments
- Carrier Relationship Management - maintain positive and productive relationship with all carriers to ensure appropriate service level
- Ensure accuracy of carrier performance data
Qualifications for transportation planner
- Executing the use of the Transportation Management System (TMS) to provide scheduled ship dates with correct carrier routings to achieve on time arrival of outbound shipments to the CPD customer base
- Bachelor's degree in Planning plus 7 years of experience required
- Bachelors required in Urban and Regional Planning, Geography, Economics, Public Administration or related subject area(s)
- Knowledge of preparation of Master Plan, Feasibility Report and DPR for Urban cities/township
- Current hands on experience in various software, such as CUBE Voyager”, ‘VISUM’, ‘VISSIM, “aaSIDRA”, MX Road, GPSS, HDM 4
- Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering, Urban Planning, or similar field with a strong emphasis on transportation planning or engineering
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Transportation Planner Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a transportation planner. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for transportation planner
- Local, regional and statewide multimodal transportation plans
- Traffic engineering studies
- Highway/roadway safety analyses
- Transportation planning reports
- Travel modeling and macro/micro simulations
- Experience/familiarity with transportation demand modeling inputs and outputs
- Transportation research
- Transit (rail and bus) and multimodal studies
- Environmental documents
- Plan and coordinate stakeholders and public outreach
Qualifications for transportation planner
- Bachelor degree with a major or emphasis in business administration, traffic/transportation management, safety/incident management and/or communications/public relations
- 10+ years of relevant multimodal transportation planning with an emphasis on transit and/or transportation planning
- Understanding of multimodal transportation principals including transit and transportation planning
- 1 to 2 years of transportation or distribution related activities preferred
- Transportation or International Export knowledge preferred
- Familiarity with monitoring project schedules and budgets
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Our innovative and growing company is looking for a transportation planner. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for transportation planner
- Must be able to identify, plan, lead cost savings initiatives that result in reduced costs for transportation services
- Work with transportation team, other internal functions, and carrier partners to identify and implement improvements
- Partner with internal and external sources to support key strategic/ improvement initiatives and key growth initiatives
- Responsible for inbound transportation processes, including scheduling, on-time deliveries, customer service notifications, communications to carriers
- Demonstrated track record in client development in a Doer/Seller environmental consulting services business model
- Minimum of fifteen (15) years of experience of demonstrated success in business development and marketing to transportation and transit agencies in Northern California
- Coordinate with various CEQA/NEPA lead agencies, including Caltrans, Regional transportation/transit agencies, City/County agencies, and resource agencies
- Develop and maintain a carrier base to support the planned and forecasted shipment volume, at the lowest possible cost per hundredweight
- Manage carrier service relations to ensure that all orders are dispatched and assigned for pickup on the appropriate ship date to meet promised delivery dates, within approved traffic lane pricing guidelines
- Work effectively as a team member within the plant and Logistics Department
Qualifications for transportation planner
- 3 or more years of relevant experience preferred in a CPG, pharma or retail environment
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain related field
- Transit operational experience is an asset
- Knowledge of NEPA regulations and other federal, state, and local permitting rules
- Transit planning experience
- DOT and government agency experience in MA, CT, NY
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of transportation planner. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for transportation planner
- Analyze traffic data, field data collection, and study preparation to support decisions on transportation systems, policies, standards
- Final production of graphics associated with public meetings, presentation drawings, reports
- Assist in the preparation of environmental documents
- Prepare reports on logistics performances capturing all KPI measures
- Coordinate/communicate changes to the daily transportation activities as needed to Manager
- Maintain performance metrics weekly for assigned factories
- Maintains/Monitors the IB schedule for assigned factories
- Maintains/Monitors carrier rates within Trax for up to date rates
- When required, arrange International shipments that require crating of product and provide completed International form from information gathered from buyer to International team to schedule with Broker
- Books other loads coming from Mexico and other countries, as needed
Qualifications for transportation planner
- University degree in Business Administration / Engineering / Logistics
- Minimum 1 year experience in similar positions in Logistics / Planning
- Fluent in Arabic and French
- Superior decision-making skills and the ability to collaborate in a team environment and work independently
- BS Degree from an ABET accredited university and at least 1 year applicable experience in transportation planning and/or travel demand modeling or MS with a focus on transportation or equivalent MS in Transportation Engineering
- Interest in engaging in travel demand modeling