Transport for London

Planner - Transport Modelling
Payband 2
Permanent position
£32,000 - £42,000 depending on skills and experience
Job Purpose

You’ll assist by providing strategic and tactical transport modelling and analysis that informs Public Transport business decisions. You’ll support the delivery of short, medium, and long-term forecasts that can be used in plans for trains, buses and station infrastructure and how customers want to use them. You’ll optimise services for customer journey time, service reliability, network capacity and connectivity, while taking account of value for money, operational constraints and customer priorities.

Examples of our current work include considering the implications of changes to services for London Underground, Rail and Buses; planned temporary service closures including escalators, lifts, or train operations; modelling additional station capacity or increased commercial opportunities within stations. This will also consider the impact of changes in the short and longer-term on demand as services and population change. On the job training is provided in our bespoke tools.

Key Accountabilities
• To provide technically competent advice concerning complex strategic, service development and operational issues using modelling, forecasting and analysis. To provide quantitative measurement of the potential impact on customers of business decisions through modelling and analysis of journey times, including the effect of crowding and congestion.
• To provide analysis for senior business leaders to resolve complex strategic & operational problems. Timescales will cover from issues impacting in a few days through to the extent of the Business Plan and beyond and can involve decisions on multi-million pound projects.
• To provide analysis and modelling that is technically proficient, understandable and actionable to influence business and operational decisions. To help develop, run and maintain a set of models and tools ensuring they are up to date, validated, calibrated and fit for purpose.
• To provide expertise in Underground, Rail, Bus and pan-TfL transport modelling and analysis tools by integrating input from a range of professions to provide development that improves efficiency and innovation by using best practice and adopting procedures for quality assurance
• To help ensure the range of information sources from across LU, Rail, Bus, TfL and from worldwide benchmarking meet the needs of modelling and analysis by providing technical specification to improve existing and new sources of data.
• Contribute to the development of Public Transport Planning team capability. Support the development of apprentices, research students, and modelling consultants in carrying out their accountabilities. Ensure that their objectives are set, training and coaching provided, and that development is achieved whilst also meeting shorter term objectives and deadlines.

Skills:

Essential:
• Excellent data analysis using Excel.
• Ability to work with modelling and analysis tools to develop and run models which deliver customer service and innovation in a productive approach.
• Ability to interpret and communicate modelling and data analysis from different information sources effectively.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Desirable:
• Able to code in one or more of VBA, R, Python, etc. or data analytic tools and query using Business Intelligence tools or GIS packages
• Data collection skills and ability to define and do research and interpret the outputs.
Knowledge:

Essential:
• Degree in highly numerate discipline or equivalent experience.
• Knowledge of computer modelling techniques.

Desirable:
• Knowledge of the relevant transport models and software used in TfL and their application such as Train Service and Pedestrian modelling software including Legion
• Knowledge of some of the relevant transport analysis or forecasting of demand, revenue for transport services e.g. using demand modelling and network assignment such as Emme, Cube, Vissum, MOIRA, RailPlan or Motion or PDFH.
• Knowledge of Transport Planning principles and their application. Ideally in public transport service, reliability issues and service performance metrics and their application.
• Understanding the principles by which decisions are made and executed and knowledge of the business case development process including DfT’s TAG or equivalent.

Experience:

Essential:
• Experience in modelling & analysis in network or service industry, preferably in transport
• Experience of managing and delivering own prioritised work programme and responding to customer needs

Desirable:
• Experience of communicating effectively to stakeholders to enable data led decisions
• Experience of delivering high quality data collection, research, analysis and interpretation of data from different sources
• Experience of participating in multiple teams

Application Process

For further information on how to apply, please click here.

Please apply using a two page CV and a two page (maximum) covering letter.

Please think carefully about the skills, knowledge and experience outlined in the job description and ensure your CV and letter reflect the requirements of the role you are applying for.

Short listing may be carried out on the basis of your answers to job-specific questions and other information that you submit.

Eligibility – Internal employees:

Probation:
In line with our Resourcing Policy (Feb 2014), internal employees are required to complete their probationary period before applying for internal TfL positions. Please ensure you have successfully completed your probation before submitting an application for this role, otherwise your application may be withdrawn.

Formal warnings:
Internal employees with any current formal warnings are not eligible to apply for internal TfL vacancies until expiry of the warning. Ineligible applications may be withdrawn. Details of what is defined as a current formal warning can be found on Source:
http://intranet.tfl/working-at-tfl/people-performance-rewards/people-management-disciplinary-processes/disciplinary-processes.aspx

Benefits

In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits and scope to grow. Rewards vary according to the business area but mostly include:
• Final salary pension scheme
• Free travel for you on the TfL network
• A 75% discount on National Rail Season Ticket and interest free loan
• 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays
• Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)
• Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme
• Retail, health, leisure and travel offers
• Discounted Eurostar travel