A Quick Guide to Becoming a Transport Planning Technician
Are you a creative thinker who enjoys problem solving? Do you want to safeguard the environment while also promoting economic growth? If so, a job as a Transport Planning Technician is suited to YOU!
What does a transport planning technician do?
A transport planning technician assists professional transport planners throughout the transportation business by resolving issues such as traffic jams and finding new, sustainable solutions to every transportation need.
Transport planning technicians are an important component of the transportation business because they assist economic growth, protect the environment, and promote social cohesion by taking security, safety, and inclusion into account.
What qualifications do you need before starting an apprenticeship?
The entry criteria will vary depending on the business. However, most companies will be searching for applicants with IT abilities, unique thinking, and a desire to assist in the development of creative solutions.
Apprentice candidates should have at least 5 GCSEs at Grades A*-C / 9-4, including Maths, English, and Science, or their equivalent.
Apprentices who do not have level 2 English and maths will need to work towards this level before taking their End-Point Assessment. For persons whose first language is BSL, a British Sign Language (BSL) qualification offers an alternative to an English qualification.
What are a Transport Planning Technician apprentice’s responsibilities?
The majority of an apprentice’s time as a transport planning technician will be spent working in an office setting. However, these 10 key responsibilities outline the wider range of work an apprentice in this transport industry would undertake:
- Carrying out data collection, analysis and evaluation.
- Ensure safe systems of work are applied and hazards and risks are identified.
- Communicate effectively with a range of audiences, such as internal and external stakeholders.
- Undertake planning for transport and travel in a way that influences travel behaviours and improves sustainability, safety, security, and inclusion.
- Contribute to the modelling of transport and traffic systems.
- Collect, interpret, and analyse inter-related and dynamic technical information.
- Participate in community, stakeholder engagement, or public consultations.
- Use the quality management and assurance systems available to proactively plan and manage tasks.
- Undertake transport planning with consideration for, and application of, ethical principles.
- Carrying out continuing professional development in line with professional codes of conduct and/or industry specifications and obligations.
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What does an apprenticeship involve?
Your Level 3 Transport Planning Technician apprenticeship will include a range of knowledge modules designed to prepare you for success in your career. Your tutor will teach you the modules that will help you in the workplace.
During your apprenticeship, you will learn the following knowledge and skills:
- The policy, legal and regulatory context within which transport planners work
- The collection and analysis of data, including new data obtained through transport and traffic fieldwork
- Transport and traffic models, forecasting and the principal analytical methods and software packages in general use
- The assessment of transport and traffic policies, plans and projects
These are just a few of the skills you will learn throughout your training.
Is a transport planning technician a good career path?
Once you have completed your level 3 apprenticeship, there are endless options for you to explore to excel in your career. Apprentice Now offers a Level 6 Transport Planner Degree which would allow you to develop your career further.
If this sounds like a career for you and you want to earn while you can, please email us at [email protected].