Description

The Capital Region Transportation Council (Transportation Council) is the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for New York’s Capital Region based in Albany, New York. The Transportation Council works with Federal, State, regional, and local government partners to plan for and implement a safe, resilient, and modern transportation system. Our work informs multi-million dollar transportation investment decisions and supports the implementation of In Motion: The Plan to 2050, the region’s Metropolitan Transportation Plan. 

We are seeking a Senior Transportation Planner to support the management of transportation data sets; management of our Geographic Information Systems (GIS); the use, development, and maintenance of our regional travel demand model; transportation planning data analysis activities; and other transportation planning tasks as assigned. The Senior Transportation Planner will be supervised by the Executive Director and the Director of GIS/Data Services. 

Ideal candidates are experienced, have excellent writing and communication skills, are self-starters, are passionate about planning for a multi-modal regional transportation system, and are capable of managing multiple tasks concurrently with a minimal amount of supervision. 

Requirements

•         Perform various duties related to the development and maintenance of the regional travel demand model, the STEP Model, which runs in PTV VISUM software.
•         Support the use of VISUM and other modeling tools such as Replica. 
•         Support the preparation of a regional household travel survey. 
•         Support the management of the Transportation Council’s data and update transportation related data sets as needed.
•         Support the management of a data collection contractor. 
•         Create, maintain, and organize GIS data and project files.
•         Support the management of ArcGIS online accounts. 
•         Assist in the development and maintenance of major Transportation Council products including the capital program known as the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP). 
•         Assist with the management of consultant led planning activities including developing Requests for Proposals, Requests for Expressions of Interest, reviewing consultant proposals, and reviewing consultant developed products.
•         Prepare and review planning documents including text, tables, and graphs.
• Provide technical information and planning assistance to member municipalities regarding transportation planning.