Leadership

TDM & Programs Specialist

Coordinates bike, pedestrian, and transit mobility; and the planning, implementing, and evaluating of Transportation Demand Management (TDM) programs. Typical job responsibilities include:

Planning, implementing, and evaluating TDM programs: marketing campaigns, media campaigns, bike/pedestrian safety education, employer TDM programs, outreach, walking/biking events, open streets events and Safe Routes to School programs.
Taking responsibility for every aspect of project management, including managing budgets, schedules, scopes of work, and client service.
Managing the work of team members (both colleagues and sub-consultants) for a successful outcome.
Contributing to the development of proposals, statements of work, contract addenda, and scope change.
Managing the production of materials and incentive items, including content development, managing the client review process, and working with the embedded graphic design team.
Contributing to blogs, social media, and whitepapers.

ITS Systems Director

Responsible for citywide technology governance, strategic planning/policy development to advance Smart City solutions for infrastructure, energy, water and waste management; transportation alternatives, building/preoperties, and programs that promote technology literacy and public access to government information. Oversee diverse urban multimodal transportation needs critical to supporting ongoing safe/efficient management of a balanced street system that fully accommodates the needs of people who walk, bike, drive, and use transit.

Other responsibilities typically include:

Collaborate with City departments working to devise Smart City solutions.
Assist departments in managing, analyzing, interpreting data produced through Smart City implementations.
Help departments ensure Smart City projects comply with City laws, policies, and standards.
Work with appropriate IT teams on Smart City projects being proposed/planned.
Ensure City standards of enterprise architecture, project management, procurement, security, privacy, social equity, data management, and performance are factored into the design of Smart City projects.
Maintain a high level of education and awareness of developments in the Smart City technology environment.

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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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Maintenance Safety Manager

A Highway Maintenance Safety Manager is responsible for oversight of maintenance activities in a given administrative district, including overseeing roadway repair, maintenance, and improvement projects, winter maintenance operations, and facilities and asset management. The Maintenance Safety Manager supervises maintenance staff; roadway monitoring, inspection, and permitting processes; disaster and emergency response; and roadway inspection and hazardous materials procedures. As such, execution of duties has a direct impact on the safety of both maintenance workers and the traveling public. Maintenance Safety Managers provide leadership on road safety promotion by means of maintenance activities and practices. Safety-related competencies include knowledge of systemic safety principles to assess risk, develop safety plans, and promote, implement, and evaluate maintenance impact on road user safety.

Other responsibilities typically include:

Identify hazards and control measures for maintenance activities.
Develop incident management and other safety plans based on risk assessment, incorporating knowledge of safety regulations and compliance measures.
Ensure effective traffic control techniques are in place to safeguard workers and those passing through a work zone or site during maintenance activities.
Implement effective road safety countermeasures through maintenance activities.
Ensure maintenance staff are able to identify, report, and/or remediate road safety deficiencies.
Promote a positive organizational safety culture.

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