This occupation is present in small specialist companies to massive multi-national and multi-disciplinary consultancies and contractors, to native authorities, Authorities departments and companies. Transport planning technicians could also be present in academia, analysis organisations, in suppliers of infrastructure and transport, and with builders and financing firms with transport pursuits
The broad function of the occupation is to offer technical help within the planning, design, implementation or evaluation of transport planning insurance policies, plans and tasks. Transport planning technicians will use their broad information and expertise base to help the supply of, or enchancment to, native, regional, nationwide or worldwide transport techniques or providers which might be appropriately threat assessed and sustainable. They may even use knowledge evaluation and digital applied sciences to mannequin and forecast the demand for transport or journey, enabling technicians to determine how they might affect selection, or assess and appraise numerous modes of transport or journey. Transport planning technicians join transport with land use planning to help financial progress, defend the atmosphere and help social cohesion by way of consideration of safety, security and inclusion
Of their each day work, an worker on this occupation interacts with members of their very own staff, every contributing to the supply of transport tasks, processes and/or insurance policies. Transport planning technicians might talk and work with different professionals throughout their organisation, together with these concerned in planning, environmental evaluation, engineering and building, however they may additionally liaise with a variety of stakeholders together with most of the people and regulatory our bodies. The vast majority of their time can be spent working in an workplace atmosphere, with the potential for infrequent work visiting websites, purchasers, clients or suppliers
An worker on this occupation can be answerable for initiating and finishing assigned transport planning duties to outlined specs inside agreed timescales and finances, following greatest observe and coverage and regulatory necessities, while sustaining excessive ranges {of professional} conduct, moral behaviour and integrity. Transport planning technicians will usually be working with a extra senior transport planning skilled, offering technical enter on transport planning tasks which might be difficult, complicated and non-routine
Assistant planner
Assistant technician
Assistant transport planner
Transport planning assistant
Transport planning technican
Particular person employers will set the choice standards for his or her Apprentices, however many can be searching for candidates with a flair for dealing with knowledge and have a want to work in transport planning with a ardour for serving to develop artistic options.
Apprentice candidates will usually have no less than 5 GCSEs at Grades A*-C / 9-4 together with Maths, English and Science or their equal.
KSBs
Data
K1: Rules and processes used for the design, evaluation and appraisal of transport planning, underpinned by applicable analytical, scientific and technical information and understanding.
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K2: Nationwide, regional and native insurance policies, transport rules and planning acts, and the way they interface with one another.
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K3: Key rules, strategies and strategies of information assortment, evaluation and analysis used within the supply of transport planning options.
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K4: Transport fashions and forecasting strategies, utilizing computer-based software program system/packages, and their use within the sector for evaluation and appraisal.
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K5: The varied modes of transport and journey, together with an consciousness of journey behaviours and the demand drivers and elements that have an effect on selection.
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K6: Methods for, and interpretation of, stakeholder engagement and public session used inside transport and journey planning.
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K7: Statutory well being and security insurance policies, procedures and rules that should be adhered to within the transport planning atmosphere.
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K8: Challenge administration, high quality assurance techniques and steady enchancment as utilized to move planning.
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K9: Rules of sustainable growth as utilized to move and journey planning.
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K10: Moral rules as utilized to move planning.
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K11: The values and requirements by which they document and keep their skilled conduct and technical information and expertise by way of CPD.
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Expertise
S1: Apply rules and processes of transport planning together with analytical, scientific and technical know-how to move planning options.
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S2: Use nationwide, regional and native insurance policies, transport or planning rules when contributing to, or appraising, transport planning options or enhancing transport techniques and providers.
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S3: Apply key rules, strategies and strategies of information assortment, evaluation and analysis to help the planning, design, implementation or evaluation of transport planning options.
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S4: Plan and perform knowledge assortment, evaluation, analysis, and report the outputs by way of applicable means utilizing related conventions and terminology.
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S5: Use fashions to forecast demand utilizing applicable software program packages for knowledge gathering and evaluation.
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S6: Apply strategies and processes for design, supply and interpretation of stakeholder or group engagement or public session actions.
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S7: Apply doc management processes and procedures utilizing the authorized processes, sustaining high quality compliance when creating or amending transport planning or design documentation.
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S8: Help and contribute to the manufacturing of transport planning options with consideration for financial, safety, cultural and societal, well-being, and the atmosphere.
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S9: Plan, perform and handle personal work, recognising the broader implications to others, reminiscent of consumer, buyer or end-user wants, and inside price and useful resource limitations.
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S10: Apply statutory well being and security insurance policies and procedures within the transport planning atmosphere, utilizing threat evaluation processes, procedures and documentation.
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S11: Talk utilizing applicable strategies for the viewers incorporating related and applicable phrases, requirements and knowledge.
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S12: Apply sustainable and moral rules to planning for transport and journey.
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S13: Plan, undertake, document and overview their very own skilled competence, repeatedly updating their CPD to enhance efficiency.
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Behaviours
B1: Complies with statutory and trade rules and insurance policies.
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B2: Works independently, working in a scientific, proactive and clear means, realizing their limitations and when to ask for help or escalate.
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B3: Applies a structured method to drawback fixing with consideration to element, accuracy and diligence.
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B4: Is motivated when collaborating in groups and with different stakeholders, providing smart problem, displays on and offers constructive suggestions and contributes to discussions.
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B5: Acts professionally with a constructive and respectful angle; can replicate on personal studying, is receptive to constructive suggestions and resilient when going through problem.
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B6: Maintains skilled and moral working relationships with inner, exterior and related stakeholders, recognising the significance of equality, range and inclusion.
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B7: Takes duty for their very own skilled growth, searching for alternatives to reinforce their information, expertise and expertise.
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