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Department: Transportation Demand Management (TDM)

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Atlanta, GA

Compensation: $75,000 - $90,000 / year

Alta Planning + Design seeks a TDM Planner III for our Atlanta, GA office. This position is a great opportunity for someone who believes in the importance of active, multimodal, and sustainable transportation and who is interested in growing their career as a planner specializing in Transportation Demand Management (TDM) planning. If you are looking to join an innovative organization and do work that connects people to places while advancing social justice, safety, and environmental resilience.

About Alta

Alta Planning + Design is a sustainable transportation company dedicated to creating active, healthy communities through planning, landscape architecture, engineering, and education/encouragement programs. Founded in 1996, Alta pioneered the field of active transportation, and today, our work empowers people to live active, healthy lives and gets them where they need to go. We are a global leader in mobility innovation, committed to social justice, safety, and environmental resilience.

At Alta, Transportation Demand Management (TDM) isn’t just a strategy. It’s a movement toward a more sustainable, connected future. TDM is about empowering people to choose smarter, greener ways to get around. We’re passionate about reducing congestion, cutting emissions, and enhancing mobility for all.

Alta’s TDM practice is one of the largest and most comprehensive in North America, bringing together three integrated teams: TDM Planning, TDM Programs, and TDM Marketing. Our planners lead everything from site-specific plans to regional strategies, craft policy, and drive community and stakeholder engagement. They also support data analysis, performance evaluation, and collaborate closely with our Programs and Marketing teams to bring TDM to life.

If you’re looking to help shape the way people move—with a team that blends creativity, technical expertise, and a shared passion for impact—Alta’s TDM Planning group is where ideas become action.

Our TDM Planner III will play a key role in shaping and delivering a diverse portfolio of Transportation Demand Management (TDM) plans and initiatives. This includes regional, and citywide TDM strategies, developer and employer-based TDM plans and regulatory compliance and supporting our local transportation management associations (TMAs) with planning, data analysis, and evaluation support.

This is a highly technical planning position that requires strong capabilities in geospatial analysis, data management, performance evaluation, digital engagement, and the communication of complex transportation information through clear maps, visualizations, reports, and presentations.

Day-to-day responsibilities for this role include:

• Design, program, test, administer, and analyze surveys and other data collection tools to support TDM planning, travel behavior analysis, stakeholder engagement, and program evaluation.
• Apply survey design best practices, including clear and unbiased question wording, appropriate response scales, survey logic, accessibility, and consideration of respondent burden, sampling, and potential bias.
• Clean, validate, analyze, and visualize quantitative and qualitative data using Excel, database applications, Qualtrics, and other analysis tools, including cross-tabulations and analysis of open-ended survey responses.
• Develop maps and conduct geospatial analysis using ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, Replica, and other transportation data sources, including creating static maps, interactive web maps, StoryMaps, dashboards, and other digital mapping and visualization products.
• Develop, manage, and maintain geospatial datasets, feature layers, map services, metadata, symbology standards, and online GIS content in coordination with project teams and clients.
• Analyze Replica and other transportation data sources to understand travel patterns, trip purposes, modes, origins and destinations, traveler characteristics, and opportunities for reducing single-occupancy vehicle travel.
• Conduct best practices research in the field of transportation planning
• Assist with engaging stakeholders and collecting input from stakeholder groups for the purpose of aiding the development of TDM and mobility plans and recommendations, including in-person, virtual, and digital engagement activities developed using Social Pinpoint or similar platforms.
• Use technical analysis, stakeholder input, and research findings to develop practical recommendations that reduce single-occupancy vehicle travel and improve access to transit, walking, bicycling, carpooling, vanpooling, shared mobility, and other transportation options.
• Review and understand policy, legislation, and relevant land use requirements as they pertain to TDM and assist clients with associated compliance
• Prepare technical memoranda, planning reports, implementation plans, evaluation reports, and other studies that clearly summarize methods, findings, recommendations, and next steps.
• Develop and deliver presentations
• Manage project tasks, timelines, and budgets
• Interact with clients and develop and maintain client relationships
• Assist with development of proposals, scopes of work, schedules, budgets, and technical approaches.

Required

This position requires a combination of skills, experience and education including, but not limited to

• 4+ years of experience in a consulting environment or public entity
• Bachelor’s degree in planning or a related field of study.
• Expertise and experience in the field of TDM, public transit, and/or active, non-motorized transportation, and strong interest in TDM
• Demonstrated understanding of the planning process and a general understanding of project management principles, methods, and techniques.
• Proficient in MS Office applications
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel, including experience organizing, cleaning, analyzing, and summarizing complex datasets.
• Advanced proficiency with ArcGIS Pro and ArcGIS Online, including the ability to perform geospatial analysis and independently develop professional-quality maps and online GIS products.
• Experience developing interactive web maps, ArcGIS StoryMaps, dashboards, storyboards, or similar digital communication and data visualization products.
• Demonstrated experience independently designing, programming, administering, and analyzing surveys, with knowledge of questionnaire design, survey logic, data quality, and common sources of response bias.
• Ability to translate complex data into easy-to-understand reports, maps, and presentations
• Ability to manage competing priorities, and multiple simultaneous projects involving cross-functional project teams within budgetary and schedule constraints.
• Excellent professional ethics, leadership skills, accountability, and decision-making capabilities.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication and analytic skills.
• Good presentation skills.

There are a number of additional skills, experience, and education that would be beneficial to this position including, but not limited to:

• Master’s degree in urban planning or similar field highly preferred
• Active participation in industry-relevant professional associations and committees.
• AICP or TDM-CP or interest and ability to attain AICP or TDM-CP
• Experience using Social Pinpoint or another virtual public engagement platform to develop interactive maps, surveys, idea boards, or other online engagement activities.
• Experience working with Replica, StreetLight, INRIX, Census, LEHD, transit, mobile-device, or other transportation and location-based datasets.
• Experience with ArcGIS Experience Builder, Survey123, Dashboards, Field Maps, Business Analyst, or other Esri applications.
• Experience with database, visualization, or analytical tools such as Power BI, Tableau, SQL, R, Python, or similar applications.
• Experience using Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, or similar products.

Flexible Schedule

Alta offers a flexible, hybrid work schedule where most employees work from home three days per week. In-office days support our collaborative culture, one of our core values.

Compensation

The hiring range for this position in Atlanta is $75,000–$90,000 annually. This range reflects the company’s good faith estimate of the compensation for this position at the time of posting. Final compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, internal equity, and geographic location.

Benefits

Alta offers comprehensive benefits to all full-time employees:

• Medical: PPO or HSA medical plans
• Dental/Vision: PPO
• Life Insurance: Alta pays 100% of the premium for life and AD&D, equal to your base compensation
• 401(k): Alta provides a match up to 3%
• PTO: 21 days accrued annually to start
• Holidays: 11 total company paid holidays
• Paid Parental Leave/Short-Term Disability
• Additional Benefits: Wellness reimbursement up to $800 annually, Alta Gets Around benefit of up to $900 annually, 5-year travel award, and professional development opportunities