What Do Transport Planners Do?

Transport Planning includes a very wide range of disciplines and covers everything necessary to tackle the nation's transport problems and to plan and deliver our transport systems.

The wide range of work is one of the big attractions. In fact, the work of transport planners touches almost every aspect of our day-to-day lives.
Think about it:

• Who advises Ken Livingstone about expanding the London Congestion charging area?
• Who designs safer routes to schools and safer cycling routes?
• Who develops the strategy options for a city's road and public transport networks?
• Who tests out the rail passenger and revenue implications of changing fares or increasing train frequencies?
• Who forecasts the effects of major airport expansion on road, rail and coach access?
• Who analyses the increased traffic resulting from new shopping centres and devises ways to accomodate it?
• Who develops strategies to encourage drivers to transfer to other modes of transport?

The list is endless. And to face these challenges we need new recruits with a wide range of skills and experience. So, if you are interested, then you could be on the first step towards a rewarding career as a transport planner.