Travel Demand Forecaster II (062207)

SRF Consulting Group is an award-winning transportation engineering, planning, and design firm providing services throughout the Midwest. At SRF, our employee-owners help shape the culture and future of our business. As a 100% ESOP company, team members share in the company’s growth and prosperity and receive stock ownership on a vesting schedule for their retirement. SRF also provides our team with a 401(k) and company match plan, a comprehensive health benefits package, competitive salaries, paid professional certifications and memberships, flex-time scheduling, generous time-off programs, vacation time carry-over, and multiple professional development programs to choose from.

SRF Consulting Group is seeking a self-motivated Travel Demand Forecaster/Modeler to join our growing Traffic & Technology Group with the option to work in the Minneapolis or Madison office. You will have opportunities to work with travel demand modeling and forecasting, hybrid modeling, transportation planning, and traffic planning, and data analytics. You will provide technical support to a variety of modeling and analysis of projects at the system, corridor, and project level. Work includes freeway and arterial corridors, transit corridors, pedestrian and bicycle modes or other transportation analysis.

Responsibilities include:

• Supporting project managers as needed on ongoing projects
• Applying knowledge of concepts and principles of travel demand modeling and transportation planning
• Preparing model inputs and scripts
• Conducting technical research and field studies
• Collecting analyzing, tabulating, and presenting data
• Interpreting the results of technical analyses and communicating them effectively
• GIS mapping and spatial analyses
• Writing reports and memos

The ideal candidate will possess the following qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s (preferred) degree in planning or civil engineering with a strong emphasis in transportation systems analysis
• 3-5 years of experience in travel demand modeling related to highway and transit projects
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong technical and plain language writing ability
• Strong interpersonal and public communication skills
• Experience with one or more travel demand modeling software programs: Bentley (Citilabs) CUBE VOYAGER, Caliper TransCAD and TransModeler, PTV VISUM, VISSIM, Bentley (INRO) EMME 4 and Dynameq, TSS Aimsun, STOPS
• Experience with data analysis software: GIS, Advanced Excel
• Programming language experience a plus: R, Python, VBA

Visa Sponsorship potentially available for this position.

SRF Consulting Group, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer.