Title:
Manager, Modeling and Forecasting

Department:
NJTPA

Reports To:
Director Systems Planning, NJTPA

Position Type:
Staff

Position Summary:
Under the direction of the Director, Systems Planning, Data and Forecasting, the Manager: Modeling and Forecasting provides NJTPA planners and decision makers with analytical insights regarding the region's current and future travel patterns, markets, and demographic and employment trends. The incumbent leads the building and operation of NJTPA transportation and forecasting models and the use of innovative forward-looking analyses in the metropolitan planning process. The position supports the evaluation of regional needs and multimodal transportation system performance, and the development and application of technical methods for selecting among available strategies. The incumbent manages data development (including travel behavior surveys) and delivers GIS and analytical support for studies conducted by Central Staff and NJTPA member and partner agencies. The incumbent maintains up-to-date technical expertise on planning methods and contributes on strategic work program decisions regarding the development and application of analytical resources.

Essential Functions:
- Operate models, including the Enhanced North Jersey Regional Transportation Model (NJRTM-E) and the NJTPA Demographic and Employment Forecasting Model (DEFM), and lead maintenance, enhancements, revalidations, and other updates as needed.
- Manage consultant-supported projects related to the NJRTM-E and the DEFM, such as updating network and zones to incorporate transportation projects, developing demographic estimates and forecasts, enhancing transportation-land use modeling integration, and conducting travel behavior surveys.
- Collaborate with colleagues, within the NJTPA and at partner local, regional, state, and federal agencies, to support and enhance modeling, forecasting and survey activities, and studies at regional, subregional, corridor, and facility levels.

Additional Functions:
- Report to staff, member and partner agencies, NJTPA Trustees, and others as appropriate on modeling and analytical issues (e.g., NJRTM-E Users Group)
- Assist in agency regional planning initiatives, such as analyzing regional transportation system performance, needs, and strategies, and developing and applying sketch-level modeling and other decision-support tools, including software supporting model, GIS, database, and visualization tools.

Prerequisite Qualifications:
- Graduation from an accredited college with a master's degree in planning or a related technical field and a minimum of five years of demonstrated expertise in Travel Modeling, Transportation Planning, and/or Geographic Information Systems.
- At the university's discretion, the education and experience prerequisites may be exempted where the candidate can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the university, an equivalent combination of education and experience specifically preparing the candidate for success in the position.

Preferred Qualifications:
- Demonstrated program management and organizational skills.
- Strong oral and written communication skills

Bargaining Unit:
PSA

Range/Band:
27

FLSA:
Exempt
Full-Time