Traffic Analyst

Salary Range

$32.7591 - $43.8685/hour. Salary reflects Step 1 and Step 7 of a 7-step pay scale. Salary at hiring will be dependent on the applicant's education, experience, and training.

This position has the potential to transition into an engineering role depending on qualifications and experience.

Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

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Under direction, to perform duties utilizing AutoCAD, GIS, and engineering computer systems; to perform a variety of skilled engineering traffic analysis duties in support of assigned Department; to provide assistance to professional level engineering staff by maintaining and ensuring access to current and valid data from several sources, as well as integrating technology into daily tasks; to assist with traffic related analysis, management and design.

Manage traffic control permitting, traffic calming program, and website related to same.

Incumbents have a high degree of understanding of department or functional operations and are able to work with considerable initiative. Working under management guidance, incumbents utilize established precedent to make decisions that are non-routine in nature. Incumbents may solve problems through interpretation of data resulting in a work product that has limited impact on the organization. Incumbents have frequent interaction with staff, co-workers and key customers to provide detailed procedures and respond to technical questions.

• Create maps for various engineering projects and programs—focused on traffic analysis.
• Extract data from the GIS system and coordinate data into usable formats for division.
• Coordinate with IT to ensure GIS data is relevant and accurate with respect to engineering projects.

• Enter and archive data for departmental records.
• Maintain integrity of traffic records database and proprietary analysis software, including translation of street route numbering assigned by the State to an actual street name.
• Review traffic control plans and permitting, traffic control signing, coordinate street closures, and manage traffic closure maps.
• Assist in management of traffic signal hardware with use of proprietary signal management software, including correlation of proprietary database with City’s GIS system.
• Maintain division website for traffic engineering.
• Assists staff with special projects requiring information to be pulled from databases.
• Automate commands for data retrieval for recurring projects.

• Conduct and participate in field traffic studies including manual traffic counts, turning movement counts, speed studies, pedestrian gap studies, intersection delay studies, trail and bike lane usage counts, classification studies, and origin-destination studies.
• Perform general transportation observations and evaluation of traffic control devices.
• Deploy, relocate, retrieve, and maintain automated traffic data equipment for vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian volume counts.
• Assist with speed limit studies and speed analysis based on data.
• Assist with signal, stop and yield warrant analyses; intersection sight distance analyses; prepare stopping sight distance calculations.
• Assist with traffic signal timing calculations for individual signals and signal systems; collect and analyze travel time data to evaluate corridor timing plans.
• Collect and analyze data for special parking studies, including bicycle parking.
• Collect and analyze data regarding neighborhood traffic control.
• Perform investigations related to all types of traffic calming and traffic control issues.
• Implement strategies to reduce accidents and improve traffic control.
• Maintain accident report files; compile accident rates, severity ratios, and other statistics; prepare accident diagrams.
• Prepare recommendations to City staff, school district personnel, and the public regarding a variety of traffic and pedestrian-related issues.
• Respond to requests for traffic data and information from the general public, outside agencies, developers, contractors and others as required.
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