Role Responsibilities Reporting to the Transportation Modelling Specialist, you will provide economic and transportation modelling services and products, such as future economic impacts of infrastructure investments and personal and commercial travel demands on provincial highways, through the application of strategic and operational traffic flow forecasting models and data analysis following best practices and standards, to support highway network and capital planning, policy, and program development activities of Alberta Transportation and Economic Corridors (TEC).

Transportation and economic modelling play a critical role in accomplishing TEC's business goals by providing data and analysis related to future travel needs which inform policy and project decisions.

Your responsibilities include (but are not limited to): Defining sophisticated and complex spatial economic and travel modeling methods and procedures for strategic area-wide models and micro-simulation models.

Consistently challenging existing analytical methods and developing/incorporating leading edge cutting-edge state-of-the-art techniques in spatial economic and travel modeling and vehicle emissions applications.

Creating a model that has the capability to develop practical and economical solutions to complex technical problems that arise as part of the personal travel, commercial goods movements and emissions forecasting model development and application process.





Working with external consultants and technical specialists from municipal jurisdictions to generate and analyze existing economic, employment, and land use data.

Developing ongoing short, medium and long-range broad area demographic forecasts for models in conjunction with other agencies.

Utilizing existing economic data to calibrate economic forecasts generated through the spatial economic model and ensuring the model provides consistent results.

Establishing robust data stewardship frameworks to manage, validate, and integrate high-volume big data sources (e.g., GPS traces, cellular location data, and sensor networks) into travel and economic models while ensuring privacy, security, and data quality.

Working with contractors and consultants to ensure the technical requirements of modelling components of projects are met.

Drafting briefing notes and action request responses on behalf of the branch for senior managers and executives within the ministry.

Presenting technical information effectively for both technical and non-technical audiences internal and external to the ministry as required.

Conducting economic assessments using sound and current methodologies, data collection, and analysis.

Training junior modellers and Engineers-in-training, and coordinating their work.

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📌 Transportation and Economic Modelling Engineer (Edmonton)
🏢 Government of Alberta
📍 Edmonton