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Job Description
Develop plans for surface transportation projects, according to established engineering standards and state or federal construction policy. Prepare designs, specifications, or estimates for transportation facilities. Plan modifications of existing streets, highways, or freeways to improve traffic flow.
Job Details
- The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 17-2051.01
Also Known As…
- Transportation Engineer
- Traffic Operations Engineer
- Project Manager
- Transportation Planning Engineer
- Transportation Design Engineer
- Transportation Consultant
- Transportation Analyst
- Traffic Engineer
- Roadway Engineer
- Highway Engineer
- Civil Transportation Engineer
- Airport Engineer
Tasks for “Transportation Engineers”
- Check construction plans, design calculations, or cost estimations to ensure completeness, accuracy, or conformity to engineering standards or practices.
- Inspect completed transportation projects to ensure safety or compliance with applicable standards or regulations.
- Evaluate transportation systems or traffic control devices or lighting systems to determine need for modification or expansion.
- Prepare final project layout drawings that include details such as stress calculations.
- Plan alteration or modification of existing transportation structures to improve safety or function.
- Investigate or test specific construction project materials to determine compliance to specifications or standards.
- Direct the surveying, staking, or laying-out of construction projects.
- Prepare administrative, technical, or statistical reports on traffic-operation matters, such as accidents, safety measures, or pedestrian volume or practices.
- Supervise the maintenance or repair of transportation systems or system components.
- Confer with contractors, utility companies, or government agencies to discuss plans, specifications, or work schedules.
- Estimate transportation project costs.
- Develop or assist in the development of transportation-related computer software or computer processes.
- Analyze environmental impact statements for transportation projects.
- Participate in contract bidding, negotiation, or administration.
- Present data, maps, or other information at construction-related public hearings or meetings.
- Design or engineer drainage, erosion, or sedimentation control systems for transportation projects.
- Design or prepare plans for new transportation systems or parts of systems, such as airports, commuter trains, highways, streets, bridges, drainage structures, or roadway lighting.
- Inspect completed transportation projects to ensure compliance with environmental regulations.
- Evaluate construction project materials for compliance with environmental standards.
- Develop plans to deconstruct damaged or obsolete roadways or other transportation structures in a manner that is environmentally sound or prepares the land for sustainable development.
- Prepare project budgets, schedules, or specifications for labor or materials.
- Review development plans to determine potential traffic impact.
- Evaluate traffic control devices or lighting systems to determine need for modification or expansion.
- Investigate traffic problems and recommend methods to improve traffic flow or safety.
- Design transportation systems or structures, using sustainable materials or products, such as porous pavement or bioretention structures.
- Model transportation scenarios to evaluate the impacts of activities such as new development or to identify possible solutions to transportation problems.
Related Technology & Tools
- Photocopying equipment
- Digital cameras
- Mobile radios
- Desktop computers
- Laptop computers
- Computer laser printers
- Personal computers
- Multi-line telephone systems
- Laser facsimile machines
- Oracle Primavera Enterprise Project Portfolio Management
- Computer aided design and drafting software CADD
- Bentley InRoads Suite
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Trafficware SynchroGreen
- Autodesk Land Desktop
- Microsoft Office
- Structured query language SQL
- Microsoft Word
- Citilabs Cube
- SIDRA INTERSECTION
- Visual Solutions VisSIM
- Microsoft Project
- Trafficware SimTraffic
- Web browser software
- Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D
- Autodesk AutoCAD
- Microsoft Excel
- ESRI ArcGIS software
- Bentley MicroStation
- McTrans TSIS-CORSIM
- McTrans HCS+
- Bentley GEOPAK Civil Engineering Suite
- McTrans TRANSYT-7F