Transport Planner - London, United Kingdom - Transport for London

Transport for London

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Description

Transport Planner

041995

Organisation

RAIL DEVELOPMENT

Job

Transport Planning

Position Type

Full Time

Salary - £35,000 to £45,000 depending on skills, knowledge and experience

Location - Southwark, London SE1, with hybrid working

Contract Type - TfL

Overview of project/role

The objective of
Public Transport Service Planning is to plan the transport development of Rail and Underground and Buses, to meet current and future customer needs.

We drive the development of London's public transport network in terms of reliability, journey time, capacity, connectivity, customer satisfaction, access to jobs and services and ultimately economic growth.

Our objectives include ensuring service plans are robust and reliable and meet customers' needs; assessing the impact of service changes, ensuring that TfL maximises the customer benefits from timetable changes, projects and other interventions; providing the modelling, business cases, surveys and other analytical services to ensure that TfL understands the impact of change on customers; collecting data across the transport network; and ensuring TfL understands current and forecast demand for London's bus and rail services.

We're now seeking a
Transport Planner to join our busy
Rail Development team.

You'll support the development of service plans, strategies and policies for Public Transport, which sustain TfL's strategic objectives, and which optimise services for customer journey time, service reliability, network capacity and connectivity and take account of value for money and meet the objectives of the Mayor's Transport Strategy.

You'll support the development of strong business case analysis for changes to policy and long-term plans for Public Transport Service change, in collaboration with scheme sponsors, which support TfL's strategic objectives and which optimise customer benefit, taking into account value for money, available resources, operational constraints and stakeholder priorities.

You'll assist in the development of Service Planning analytical and reporting capabilities to better understand operational performance, environmental impact and passenger demand, through development and research of new analytical tools, techniques and performance indicators.

Key Accountabilities
Your duties will include, but not be limited to:

Assist in the development of strategies, policies and service planning for Public Transport in line with the Mayor's Transport Strategy (MTS), and best practice, guidance and legislation to ensure TfL's strategic objectives are met
Support the provision of Public Transport Service Planning input into TfL wide policy, in particular in relation to revisions to the MTS, transport modelling, appraisal, land use planning and influence funding opportunities to ensure appropriate transport provision
Undertake detailed analysis of feasibility, costing, passenger benefit evaluation and performance impact of service change proposals, including appropriate modelling and business case development to deliver value for money
Assist in building and securing stakeholder support for service changes and projects across and outside the business to ensure deliverability
Support the development of capability to analyse and forecast operational service performance and demand in order to optimise strategies and plans, ensuring the customer is put at the heart of decision making through customer focused benefits analysis and metrics
Maintain appropriate statistical series and access to operational data, and consider requests for new statistics to enable effective data led decision making
Support senior staff in providing appropriate responses to external enquiries and consultations
Support input into the development of the TfL Business Plan and budget setting process to ensure cost effective provision
Monitor and review the impact of selected service changes on TfL's customers and on TfL's delivery of its strategic objectives including value for money, customer journey time, reliability, capacity and connectivity and improve efficiency
Manage as appropriate smaller programme of works (or assist in larger) to deliver plans, obtaining governance approvals

Skills, Knowledge & Experience

Skills

Data collection and analysis skills with the ability to research and interpret the outputs using advanced analytical tools (Essential)
Strong written and verbal communications skills (Essential)
Ability to prepare plans to tight timescales (Highly desirable)
Strong influencing and negotiating skills (Highly desirable)
Strong analytical skills in appraising service changes through business case development (Desirable)

Knowledge

A degree in a relevant discipline or equivalent experience (Essential)
Knowledge of public transport issues in general, the structure of the public transport industry and the characteristics of the London travel market