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Where a transport planner can go next

2 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a transport planner already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Transport planners develop and implement policies in order to improve transport systems, taking into account the social, environmental and economic factors. They collect and analyse traffic data using statistical modelling tools.

Also known as road traffic planner, transport planning development engineer, development planning transport planner, traffic planner, highway and drainage engineer, traffic engineer, traffic and highway engineer, transportation business change manager, transport modeller, senior transport planner, junior transport planner.

Professionals 49 skills on file 2 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: mobility services manager, 43%

Fig. 2 · Career map 2 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1

70% and above · short step
50 to 70% · real move
Below 50% · substantial retraining

The 2 nearest destinations from transport planner, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a transport planner already covers. All 2 are listed in the tables below.

Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step. Only 2 moves are listed. Few other occupations share enough of this job's skills for a fair comparison, and jobs that share almost all of them are left out as the same work under another name.

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A transport planner needs 26 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area

analyse transport studies information skills
analyse transport business networks information skills
identify statistical patterns information skills
study traffic flow information skills
develop urban transport studies information skills
monitor traffic flow information skills
analyse road traffic patterns information skills
traffic engineering engineering, manufacturing and construction
geographical routes natural sciences, mathematics and statistics
analyse transportation costs information skills

Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a transport planner does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

mobility services manager 31% covered · difficulty 72.9

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Transport planner is filed under Professionals, ISCO major group 2. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a transport planner’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.