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transport planner
Transport planners develop and implement policies in order to improve transport systems, taking into account the social, environmental and economic factors. They collect and analyse traffic data using statistical modelling tools.
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Job Zone
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Zone 4: Considerable Preparation Needed
Considerable preparation. Usually a bachelor's degree plus several years of work-related experience, knowledge, or training.
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Occupational interest profile
ICRInvestigative · Conventional · Realistic — the three strongest interests, in order
- I Investigative5.60
- C Conventional4.87
- R Realistic3.59
- E Enterprising3.14
- A Artistic2.01
- S Social1.76
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Transportation Planners (19-3099.01): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (26)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- analyse environmental data
- analyse road traffic patterns
- analyse test data
- analyse transport business networks
- analyse transport studies
- analyse transportation costs
- apply statistical analysis techniques
- conduct environmental surveys
- develop urban transport studies
- environmental legislation
- environmental policy
- geographical routes
- identify statistical patterns
- interpret visual literacy
- monitor traffic flow
- prepare visual data
- promote the use of sustainable transport
- public law
- regulate traffic
- report analysis results
- statistical analysis system software
- statistics
- study traffic flow
- traffic engineering
- urban planning
- urban planning law
Optional (23)
- air traffic management
- carpooling services
- civil engineering
- design wayside signalling interlockings
- educate public on road safety
- give live presentation
- implement route planning in smart mobility services
- investigate road accidents
- local geography
- manage car park operations
- match vehicles with routes
- mobility as a service
- parking regulations
- prepare scientific reports
- promote public transport
- provide information on train routes
- rail infrastructure
- restrict bridge traffic
- road traffic laws
- run preventive simulations
- simulate transport problems
- use consulting techniques
- write leaflets
O*NET equivalents
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Closest occupations
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