Strategic Mindset

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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Fleet Manager

A Fleet Manager plans, organizes, implements, directs, and leads the activities of the Fleet Services Division of a Department of Public Works or a State Department of Transportation. Duties include oversight of vehicle and heavy equipment repair, maintenance, fueling, record keeping, and vehicle procurement/disposal. The Fleet Manager collaborates and coordinates with other departments and divisions and other governmental agencies.

Other responsibilities typically include:

Determines whether equipment needs can be met.
Buys or researches and recommends equipment for specific activities.
Identifies and integrates new technologies into departmental operations.
Ensures personnel safety through effective use of training, performance management, and communication.
Participates in outside community and professional groups and committees.
Mentors staff and provides training programs for equipment operators and other subordinates.
Sets and monitors productivity measures.

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Transportation Planner

A Transportation Planner is committed to taking on the role of urban freight researcher who studies the operation of transportation systems implemented by an organization. On a daily basis, the analysis and compilation of data is carried out to evaluate the effectiveness of implemented transportation models and simulations. A Transportation Planner therefore works to analyze the developmental tide of the infrastructure, and how current project models potentially can be developed to weight against local regulations. In that role, one therefore bares the responsibility of representing the administrative approval of transportation-and-land development projects carried out by an organization, to make sure that local regulations and jurisdictions on land use are being followed.

Other responsibilities typically include:

Attend regular meetings and collaborate with engineers, public officials, and public stakeholders to resolve transportation design and environmental issues stemming from civic projects and public policies.
Compose and summon technical reports on plans within regional and urban programs and policies.
Monitor and assess regional/urban production.
Supervise the work of hired consultants and interns; carry out public outreach to promote a consensual dialogue on the future development of civic projects.

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