AECOM is seeking a Transportation Engineer or Transportation Planner to support Florida's Turnpike Enterprise by applying and enhancing statewide and regional travel demand models for innovative toll project evaluations.
Requirements
- Programming and scripting experience with at least two of the following: C++ (preferred), JAVA, Pascal, and scripting languages such as Python(preferred), Rscript (preferred)
- Proficient using development environments Eclipse and Visual Studio including use of AI to assist in code development and debugging
- Knowledge of travel demand modeling software, such as Cube, TransCAD, and Visum (preferred)
- Knowledge of choice models, development, and application to travel demand, use of econometrics in estimating demand models from survey data
- Knowledge of GIS and database analysis including developing scripts to process data in and out of GIS files or automated routines in QGIS / ArcGIS
- Experience utilizating advanced techniques with modification and extension of theories, precepts, and practices of planning sciences, data sciences (preferred) and related disciplines
- Experience with Cloud technologies, Web Apps is helpful along with version control software like GitHub and Subversion but not a must have requirement
Responsibilities
- fulfillment of model enhancement, data updates, code maintenance, and project application requests for innovative toll project evaluations
- create and update model data, code towards the project application using the following programs / modeling platforms: Visum, TransCAD, QGIS, R, and Python software, as well as use of Generative AI (LLMs or Chatbots)
- assemble and prepare data for model validation and long-range future year travel forecasts
- model validation to required accuracy standards
- development of forecasts for toll road projects
- documentation of results
- use QGIS/ArcGIS with related database development and application skills, along with SQL/Python/R or other programming languages
Other
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering or Urban Planning or related field
- 4 years of related experience or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or educatiobn
- Knowledge of the principles, practices, and objectives of transportation planning applications, specifically the disaggregate choice demand modeling such as Tour-based, Activity-Based Models and route choice modeling in Micro-simulation and Macro-Dynamic Traffic Assignment (macro DTA)
- Proficient in technical writing skills and verbal communication abilities to present modeling results for various stakeholders (clients, TRB or IBTTA conferences, model user groups).
- Master’s degree in Civil Engineering or Urban Planning or related field
