Senior Travel Demand Modeler
Full-time, hybrid, or fully remote for well-qualified candidates
Atlanta, GA, or Orlando, FL
Job Description
Modern Mobility Partners, a full-service transportation planning firm founded in January 2018, is seeking a Senior Travel Demand Modeler to serve as a technical leader within our travel demand modeling practice. This is a hands-on role for someone who actively develops, calibrates, applies, and quality-checks travel demand models - not simply oversees them. You'll work closely with a team of planners and modelers, mentor junior staff, and serve as the senior technical point of contact on model development and maintenance engagements for clients.
Tasks may include but are not limited to:
- Lead transportation planning and technical activities, guiding junior and mid-level staff, managing technical direction, and quality assurance.
- Overseeing development, calibration, and validation of travel demand model architecture.
- Manage technical aspects of travel demand modeling projects from scoping to delivery.
- Translating complex technical modeling results into clear insights for clients and decision makers.
- Prepare and present technical memoranda and analysis reports to clients.
- Build and maintain strong client relationships to ensure satisfaction.
- Manage multiple projects and meet deadlines with minimal oversight.
- Assist in developing proposals for RFPs and participate in strategy sessions.
- Assist with hiring and onboarding new modeling staff
Required Qualifications
- Master’s degree in Urban and Regional/City planning, Civil Engineering, or Transportation Engineering
- 10+ years of professional travel demand modeling and/or data analytics experience
- Professional data analysis experience with at least one of the following tools: Excel/ACCESS/R/Python
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
Preferred Qualifications
- Hands-on experience with travel demand modeling software, including Cube, VISUM, and/or TransCAD
- Activity-Based Modeling (ABM) methodology and application experience
- Advanced data analytics and machine learning applications to transportation modeling
- Programming/Scripting experience with Excel VBA, SQL, R, Python, etc.
- AICP or ability to attain within 1 year, or PE or ability to attain within 2 years
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $130,000.00 - $169,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Professional development assistance
- Relocation assistance
- Vision insurance
Application Question(s):
- When are you available to start?
- What is your preferred salary range? Please note, the higher end of the posted salary rang is for those with a PE license.
- In which city and state are you currently located?
- If given a choice, where is your preferred location, Atlanta GA or Orlando, FL?
- How many years of Cube Voyager scripting experience do you have?
- Are you proficient in Microsoft Office?
- Do you have your AICP or PE license? If so which one?
- How many years of TransCAD and/or VISUM experience do you have?
- How many years of GIS Analysis experience do you have?
- Do you now, or will you in the future require employer sponsorship to be authorized to work in the US?
Education:
Experience:
- travel demand modeling: 10 years (Required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Atlanta, GA 30308
