Mid Level

Transportation Safety Data Analyst

A Transportation Safety Data Analyst supports data-driven transportation safety improvements by ensuring that transportation and other relevant organizations collect, manage, and share high quality data in an efficient and coordinated manner to support transportation safety decision-making and resource allocation. They assist others in identifying relationships and trends in data; use techniques to display results of analyses; review data for accuracy, quality, and completeness; establish protocols for data management and security; and utilize multiple strategies to integrate safety data and analysis into transportation decision-making processes.

Other responsibilities typically include:

Developing systems and establishing processes to ensure data quality and type of data elements are properly collected and validated to enable robust safety analysis.
Working with stakeholders from both the public and private sectors to establish interoperability between different data sources to support transportation safety data analytics.
Developing data analysis and data visualization tools, and user interface systems to facilitate data access, user friendly data queries, and data system functionality.
Using advanced predictive analytics, computational methods, and modeling and simulation techniques to identify and mitigate safety risk.

Traffic Safety Engineer

A Traffic Safety Engineer is committed to obtaining safety goals through continuous improvement of transportation planning, design, operations, and safety investment strategies. Traffic Safety Engineers utilize multiple strategies to integrate safety data and analysis into transportation decision-making processes. They apply their knowledge of systemic safety principles to analyze, assess, and present safety data, and to plan, implement, and evaluate road safety programs and processes.

Other responsibilities typically include:

Provide direction on development of safety-focused policies and guidelines through collaboration with law enforcement agencies, safety organizations, and other public stakeholders.
Analyze, synthesize, and present road safety data to relevant stakeholders to aid safety-focused decision making and investments, including through the development of models and simulations.
Ensure that transportation plans, roadway designs, and traffic operations and management strategies comply with established safety guidelines and reflect current best practices related to safety performance measures.
Apply analytical, modeling, and simulation skills as well as qualitative and quantitative research methodologies to develop safety solutions.

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Traffic Safety Planner

A Traffic Safety Planner is responsible for integrating safety into an agency’s planning documents and processes and for working collaboratively with stakeholders to implement safety plans. Must have knowledge of sources of safety data, systemic safety issues, contributing crash factors, and human behaviors associated with safety risk. They apply this knowledge to incorporate safety data and analysis into transportation decision-making processes to achieve safety improvement goals.

Other responsibilities typically include:

Represent traffic safety interests at a variety of cross-sector stakeholder meetings.
Analyze, synthesize, and present safety data to stakeholders and the public in visual or other formats that facilitate data-driven safety-related investments and decision-making.
Provide direction on the development and integration of safety goals and objectives into transportation planning processes; and implement a process for embedding safety performance measures into planning tools and investment decisions.
Promote effective public outreach, education and involvement to build support for safety priorities.
Participate in public meetings and conduct surveys to identify issues of public concern.
Implement monitoring and evaluation systems to ensure continuous improvement.

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Human Factors Engineer

A Human Factors Engineer focused on transportation safety utilizes human factors principles to evaluate the interaction between the human element and transportation system elements to identify systemic risk and to design safety solutions. Human Factors Engineers must be able to recognize the capabilities and limitations of road users in terms of behavior choices and reactions to system elements, as well as how demographics influence safety outcomes. Based on knowledge of human factors principles, they investigate, design, and implement transportation system safety solutions; and utilize multiple strategies to integrate road safety and human factors data and analysis into transportation planning and design.

Other responsibilities typically include:

Utilize psychological and other scientific research methods based on principles related to human behavior and performance to assess safety impacts of behavioral decision-making as well as appropriate mitigation measures.
Analyze and integrate human performance or human factors related data and knowledge into transportation system design activities.
Diagnose design deficiencies based on real-world driver behavior.
Apply knowledge of environmental, cultural and other factors that influence behavior to the design and implementation of behavior change and safety culture enhancement strategies.
Apply modeling and simulation skills as well as appropriate qualitative, quantitative, user-centered design, and predictive analytics methodologies to identify safety issues and to design solutions, including safety-enhancement devices and technologies.

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Civil Engineer (Transit)

A civil transit engineer will develop, analyze, inspect, and/or design transit infrastructure, transit stations, buildings, underground structures, or elevated structures or bridges. A civil transit engineer will often perform field surveys, develop transit plans, secure permitting for transit infrastructure, prepare engineering design reports, prepare constructions plans, respond to structural emergencies, and/or prepare contract documents for rail or transit engineering projects. A civil transit engineer will often participate in on-site reviews of project locations to monitor progress and ensure conformance to design specifications and safety standards. A civil transit engineer may also perform transit/traffic analysis, transportation operations, ITS and safety concepts, and pedestrian improvement plans. A civil transit engineer may utilize AutoCAD or Civil 3D software in plans for transit facility designs, diagrams, or models, and to execute engineering tasks. A civil transit engineer will coordinate with local officials to ensure compliance of design in accordance with transit agency standards and specifications. A civil transit engineer with project management duties will also develop and manage a transit project’s design scope, proposal, schedule, and resource estimates, as well as coordinate efforts of the design team or supervises related support staff.

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Logistics Analyst

Industrial engineers and operations research or modeling analysts working in transportation operations use advanced mathematical and analytical methods to analyze and solve complex problems, assess risk, and provide a data-driven approach to decision-making. They might be involved in numerous types of projects including process improvement plans, warehouse and labor management, capital projects, inventory and equipment planning, cost saving initiatives, or logistics process design. Utilizing industrial engineering skills inherent in process flow analysis, operational project planning, efficiency or process improvement studies, statistical and mapping analysis, and time and motion studies, the industrial engineer or operations analyst will be involved in planning and designing new transportation operations, supporting existing operations, and developing comprehensive supply chain solutions.

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