The role played by transportation consultants:

• Solving transportation needs of communities
• Project variety
• Managing challenging transportation projects
• Interaction with clients and project partners
• Applying technical skills to real-life problems
• Defining project impacts
• Applied Research

Transportation consultants are employed as:

• Transportation Planner
• Traffic Engineer
• Project or Program Manager
• Transit Analyst
• Applied research
• Transportation Economics
• Educators
• Intelligent Transportation Systems planning and design

Skills and analytical expertise:

• Transportation Planning and/or Engineering
• Communications- oral and written
• Project Management
• Technical writing
• Problem –solving
• Teamwork

The type of projects that might be undertaken by transportation consultants and their value to communities:

• Community transportation plans
• Regional transportation plans
• Corridor engineering and planning
• ITS planning and design
• Environmental analyses to determine transportation needs
• Project designs leading to implementation
• Strategies aimed at reducing travel demand
• Public-private partnerships to implement major projects
• Transportation impacts of new development proposals
• Advanced travel demand modeling and traffic simulation for proposed projects
• Statewide transportation policies
• Traffic operations
• Traffic management centers
• Applied research

Potential employers in the private sector:

• Transportation engineering or planning Consulting firms
• Civil engineering firms
• Sole proprietors
• Economics firms
• Management consulting firms
• Urban design and planning firms
• Environmental consulting firms
• Educators