Job Type
Internship
Description
This internship is designed for motivated college students pursuing a degree in civil engineering, transportation planning, urban planning, geography, data science, or a related field. You will directly contribute to meaningful projects that shape regional transportation infrastructure and see how your technical skills translate into real-world impact. You will also gain hands-on experience with industry-standard travel demand modeling platforms.
What You Will Do
• Construct, calibrate, analyze, test, and document inputs for travel demand models.
• Analyze socioeconomic data, household travel surveys, and origin-destination data under supervision.
• Assist with model validation against existing conditions to ensure accuracy and reliability.
• Apply models to forecast future transportation network performance under different growth scenarios, policy changes, and major infrastructure projects (highways, transit, etc.).
• Help evaluate the feasibility and economic viability of proposed transportation improvements.
• Support the preparation of technical memos, reports, and presentations for internal teams, clients, and public stakeholders.
Job Requirements
• Cumulative GPA of 3.0 or better.
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal.
• Strong attention to detail with excellent analytical and judgment capabilities.
• Ability to effectively work independently and in a team environment; and,
• Exposure to travel demand modeling concepts and terminology.
• Exposure to construction and manipulation of layers in a GIS environment.
• Exposure to computer programming with Python, R, or similar.
