[Remote] Senior Travel Demand Modeler
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BGE, Inc. is a nationwide civil engineering consulting firm offering diverse career opportunities in public and private infrastructure projects. The Senior Travel Demand Modeler will focus on multimodal planning, model development, and application, as well as statistical analysis and forecasting related to travel behavior and traffic projections.
Responsibilities
- Assist with the designs of travel model architecture customized to meet transportation analysis objectives in the state or metropolitan area under study
- Statistically analyzes household and transit onboard travel survey data in order to develop model parameters and estimate model
- Works with and creates CUBE Voyager and TransCAD GISDK scripts
- Performs computer programming related to travel demand modeling and traffic analysis
- Conducting statistical analyses of travel survey and passively-collected transportation data
- Defines variables, coefficients, and constants to estimate a model likely to replicate observed transportation system travel behavior
- Using iterative testing, calibrates the model coefficients to produce statistically reliable results to match target confidence and error levels based on project objectives
- Using the calibrated model, validates the model to existing conditions to insure performance
- Develop macros and scripts to execute individual model components, manage input-output data handling among the models and provide a user interface to organize output data into exhibits and reports to provide results in a format designed to meet analysis objectives
- Applies the models to forecast future transportation system performance under varying conditions and project scenarios to test the feasibility and economic viability of major highway and transit infrastructure projects
Skills
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Transportation Engineering, Transportation Planning, or a closely related field
- Minimum 8 years of experience working with travel demand models
- Proficiency in at least one travel demand model environment with exposure to others (e.g. TransCAD, Cube Voyager)
- Programming experience in Python (pandas, NumPy), R, VB, GISDK, or other model scripting languages or other programming languages
- Ability to plan, organize and manage the technical components of a travel demand modeling project
- Specific technical training in and experience with statistics and statistical packages, geographic information systems (GIS), travel demand models
- Experience in carrying out travel demand model estimation, calibration and validation
- Demonstrated expertise and experience in the production of model documentation and technical reports
- Experience with Microsoft Access, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Strong oral and written communications skills
- Applicants must be lawfully authorized to work in the U.S
- Master's degree in Urban Planning, GIS, Geography or Transportation Engineering/Planning
- 10 years of experience working with travel demand models
Benefits
- 401k Match: 100% up to 4% of your contributions with immediate vesting + 3% Safe Harbor Contribution with immediate vesting
- Merit-Based Bonus Compensation
- Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance; BGE contributes to HSA on eligible plans
- 9 paid Holidays, including 3 Floating holidays
- Personal Time Allowances
- 2 to 4 weeks of Vacation, depending on experience-level. Unused vacation carries over to the next year.
- "Unlimited" Sick Days.
- Mentorship Program – Provides you with the opportunity to learn and receive guidance from seasoned professionals.
- Employee Referral Program that pays you for bringing great people into the BGE family
Company Overview
- Ranked No. 105 in Engineering News-Record’s 2023 Top 500 Design Firms, BGE, Inc. It was founded in 1975, and is headquartered in Houston, Texas, US, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.bgeinc.com.
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