Transportation Engineers

• Design or prepare plans for new transportation systems or parts of systems, such as airports, commuter trains, highways, streets, bridges, drainage structures, or roadway lighting.
• Investigate traffic problems and recommend methods to improve traffic flow or safety.
• Check construction plans, design calculations, or cost estimations to ensure completeness, accuracy, or conformity to engineering standards or practices.
• Prepare project budgets, schedules, or specifications for labor or materials.
• Prepare administrative, technical, or statistical reports on traffic-operation matters, such as accidents, safety measures, or pedestrian volume or practices.
• Evaluate traffic control devices or lighting systems to determine need for modification or expansion.
• Estimate transportation project costs.
• Evaluate transportation systems or traffic control devices or lighting systems to determine need for modification or expansion.
• Plan alteration or modification of existing transportation structures to improve safety or function.
• Confer with contractors, utility companies, or government agencies to discuss plans, specifications, or work schedules.
• Model transportation scenarios to evaluate the impacts of activities such as new development or to identify possible solutions to transportation problems.
• Participate in contract bidding, negotiation, or administration.
• Review development plans to determine potential traffic impact.
• Inspect completed transportation projects to ensure safety or compliance with applicable standards or regulations.
• Present data, maps, or other information at construction-related public hearings or meetings.
• Analyze environmental impact statements for transportation projects.

Source: O*NET OnLine information for Transportation Engineers.

• Complex Problem Solving - Identifying complex problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Speaking - Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Critical Thinking - Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
• Writing - Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.
• Judgment and Decision Making - Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.
• Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents.
• Systems Analysis - Determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
• Time Management - Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Coordination - Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.
• Mathematics - Using mathematics to solve problems.

Source: O*NET OnLine information for Transportation Engineers.