Senior Engineer responsible for transit priority measures and operations planning for Ottawa's transit system. Leading technical issues and evaluating transit operations while ensuring compliance with city plans and standards.
Responsibilities
Transit Service Planning is responsible for service and operations planning for bus, rail, and Para Transpo services (including route planning, bus stop planning, service frequency, scheduling, and bus type assignment)
capital and operating budgeting for the department
transit fare policy, performance reporting, development of policies and long-range plans, establishment of service standards and design standards
delivery of the City’s transit priority program
continuous improvement for departmental operations
primary responsibility for all technical issues, detailed design, implementation and field monitoring of measures and strategies to improve the flow and reliability of transit service on the road network
evaluating, developing and implementing transit priority measures, in keeping with requirements as set out in the Highway Traffic Act and Ontario Traffic Manual, and in a manner consistent with the goals of the Official Plan, Transportation Master Plan, and Transit Services business plans
Operational transit priority measures include reserved bus lanes along roadways and at intersections (queue jumps), traffic control signal priority and special traffic management techniques.
The development and implementation of transit priority requires policy development, research, transportation modeling techniques, coordination with other programs, specialized equipment/procedure development, implementation and evaluation.
Requirements
Completion of 4 year university degree in Civil or Electrical Engineering
Minimum of 5 years of progressively responsible experience in transportation planning, design and/or operations, including:
experience in transit priority strategies and equipment
demonstrated ability to successfully develop and implement innovative and complex solutions and systems in the field of transportation engineering
experience in evaluating transit operations
experience in traffic control strategies and equipment
Licensed Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) with Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO)
Traffic control systems and equipment
Principles of traffic engineering and control
Transit priority strategies and methods
Traffic engineering/modeling software
The public transit system in the City of Ottawa
Computer applications relevant to an engineering environment
Project management principles
State of the art transit control and operating systems such as AVL and APC systems
TAC and AASHTO geometric design guidelines
Ontario Traffic Manual, Canadian Capacity Guide and other manuals and guidelines related to traffic control signal equipment
Official Plan and Transportation Master Plan
Issues of smart growth and sustainable transportation
Ontario Highway Traffic Act and City of Ottawa Traffic and Parking By-law
Organization and structure of the City of Ottawa and the Transportation, Utilities and Public Works Department
Must possess the training, experience and knowledge to organize the work and its performance
Works in accordance with applicable health and safety legislation, policies and procedures, and all other legislation, policies and procedures relevant to the work
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