TDM Planner III

TDM Planner III

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, apply with Alta today!

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.

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, Story Maps, 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…