Transport Planner

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together. Role description: Arcadis is seeking a Traffic Planner /Operations Analyst with 2 to 5+ years of experience to join our transportation team. We are actively working to make communities more sustainable by expanding our team with diverse skill sets. You will play an important role in the full life cycle of projects (conducting analysis, reporting and presentation of findings, client interaction). You will also have the opportunity to contribute to business development, such as proposal preparation, work scope strategy. Our multidisciplinary project teams will provide you with the opportunity to collaborate with a wide variety of professionals including urban planning and design, architecture, placemaking, active transportation, wayfinding, land development, and construction administration. The successful candidate will be self-motivated, demonstrate excellent communication skills, be eager to learn and enjoy working in a fast-paced consulting environment. Strong writing, presentation, and public speaking skills will be of benefit in this position, as there will be frequent interaction with various levels of municipal agencies and the client project teams. Role accountabilities: • Typical projects will include site plans, land development, traffic calming, and corridor studies including cycle tracks, sidewalks, bus rapid transit, crosswalks, pick-up/drop-off areas, driveways, and roundabouts. • Typical tasks include intersection and corridor operations modelling, such as Synchro capacity-based, Aimsun mesocopic, and VISSIM microscopic software platforms. • Coordinating and quality control of field data collection, traffic counts and surveys. • Conducting field observations to inform the preparation of land development traffic operations and parking studies. • Compiling and interpreting data, such as traffic volumes, parking utilization, transportation patterns, pedestrian desire lines, and collision history. • Analyzing, interpreting, synthesizing and visualizing data • Using traffic operations analysis software to study existing operations, forecast traffic patterns/operations, and facilitate conceptual design for new road corridors / intersections from a complete streets perspective. • Reviewing and identifying design improvements for land development site plans from a road configuration, site circulation, parking, loading, and road user safety perspective, via drawing mark-ups in either PDF and AutoCAD environments. • Assessing existing road conditions and recommending implementable enhancements to achieve client and municipal design goals, with supporting analysis of costs and benefits. • Writing reports and contributing to proposals including traffic impact studies, traffic calming studies, parking studies, documenting road design recommendations, applying road design standards. • Communicating and guide the implementation of traffic related design improvements / recommendations to other internal teams and to external client teams. • Researching ongoing and evolving industry and municipal best practices in the realm of traffic operations, congestion reduction initiatives, transportation demand management, parking reduction strategies, car-dependence reduction, bicycle lane enhancements, and other general sustainable land development initiatives in urban and rural contexts. You will be responsible for: • Delivering high quality on all technical deliverables. • Using professional judgment to identify and resolve technical problems. • Contributing to client