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 Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) is an independent special district that provides sustainable, accessible, community-focused, innovative, and environmentally responsible transportation options promoting the region's vitality. VTA provides bus, light rail, and paratransit services and participates as a funding partner in regional rail services, including Caltrain, Capital Corridor, and the Altamont Corridor Express. 

To learn more, go to: vta.org

The Planning & Programming Division consists of the following areas:

• Planning - Responsible for the planning and conceptual design of all transit projects, forecasting and modeling analysis for capital projects and the CMP, development review, bike and pedestrian planning, and long range planning functions of the CMP. 
• Programming and Grants - Responsible for advocating, prioritizing, programming, managing, and ensuring compliance for all federal, state and regional highway/transit/roadway/bicycle/pedestrian grants, as well as the programming of funds for the CMP.

As the Ideal Candidate: 
You will be working with planners, engineers, modelers, and GIS professionals who are passionate about making our region a more sustainable and equitable place.  You will support VTA (the transportation planning and programming authority & the transit operator for Santa Clara County) in its efforts to develop and maintain a bi-county travel demand model.  You will be directly involved in developing and stress-testing a new activity-based travel demand model (ABM).  Before the ABM is deployed, you will use the current model to support a wide range of planning and engineering activities, from BART Extension to Silicon Valley and transit-oriented community studies, and from express lane studies to the development of countywide long-range plans.  As our team strives to continuously improve our model and other analytical tools, you will research and implement new ideas to enhance and expand our forecasting capabilities.

Definition

Under direction, a Senior Transportation Planner – Modeling and Analysis supervises professional planners, and consultants and carries out activities related with the development, revision, and calibration of regional multi-modal networks and models.

Distinguishing Characteristics

This classification is the first supervisory level with responsibility for developing travel demand models; travel forecasting and analysis of transportation system performance; analyzing household travel surveys and decennial census data; preparing technical documentation of work performed; compiling and analyzing data; responding to information requests; and representing VTA at project technical committees.

Interested applicants may only meet some of the requirements. We encourage applications from any person who believes they can thrive and grow within VTA.

While we’re welcoming to a variety of different candidates, this position could be an excellent role for a number of different profiles, including those who: 

• Want to be team players with strong interpersonal skills, working within the community and VTA to help elevate and integrate equitable transit initiatives throughout our work 

• Are passionate, adaptable, and innovative team players who want to learn and contribute to the development of a visionary transit network through an equity lens 

• Are interested in collaborative and impactful, transformative change; working with supportive diverse teams to help grow our service and lead our region.