Principal - Transport Modelling

Ref: 044054

Location: Southwark London - Hybrid

Salary: £48,000 to £65,000 depending on experience

Full, part time or flexible working

Help provide London with better stations using pedestrian modelling

London is a world-class city that’s home to 8.6 million people and visited every year by 19 million more. Keeping it working, moving and growing is a huge challenge, but one that TfL rises to every day. Transport Modelling plays a part in our success, helps to support our strategic objectives by optimising customer priorities including journey times for over 500 stations in London. Well-functioning stations are vital to access London’s many rail services.

Work to develop innovative approaches to modelling?

Your challenge will be to lead your team of pedestrian/station modellers as you provide analysis and insight to enable senior business leaders resolve complex strategic and operational problems with our stations. Owning and maintaining a suite of models that are up to date, validated, calibrated and fit for purpose. You’ll use these to provide modelling that is technically proficient, understandable and actionable, and influences business and operational decisions while ensuring our customers are at the heart of that decision making. We’ll also expect you to develop new and innovative approaches to improve the quality and efficiency of modelling, and analysis to provide results for strategy and service development decisions. Recent projects have included Elizabeth Line, Bank & Victoria Station Capacity Enhancements and escalator enhancement plus Step Free Access prioritisation.

Help us achieve our long term goals

This is an opportunity to make your mark on the way we run London’s transport system, and will include delivering results and recommendations, procurement, research and development programmes to keep tools and models fit for purpose and meet the growing needs of our business. You’ll be using all your skills as you provide authoritative advice that informs TfL’s contractual involvement in major, multi-million-pound transport programmes, and provide input to reporting on impacts such as increased congestion from the combination of planned closures and events. We’ll also expect you to project manage your teams contributions to a wide a range of work as well as develop their capabilities, ensure objectives are set, training and coaching is provided, and longer term development is achieved.

Use all your expertise and knowledge

To succeed in this role, you’ll have a degree in a highly numerate discipline and extensive relevant experience. It’s important that you have excellent computer modelling skills and detailed knowledge of some of the software we use pedestrian modelling using agent simulation (Legion) & spreadsheet models (e.g., station standards), and knowledge of forecasting and demand assignment. You would also ideally have a well-developed knowledge of transport planning principals, public transport services and reliability issues, and service performance metrics including Journey Time. We’ll also expect you to have knowledge of forecasting of demand, analysis for supporting business cases, economic appraisals (e.g., DfT’s TAG) including revenue.

In addition, skills to analyse multiple data sets using tools such as Excel, Power BI, or skills to code in one of R, Python, VBA, etc. plus basic experience in CAD or GIS software packages would be an advantage. We are looking for someone with experience of working with clients across TfL to scope client requirements for modelling and analysis; and then presenting results and aiding clients to use outputs to appropriately inform design work, business case analysis etc.

The rewards are as impressive as your achievements

In return for your expertise, we’ll offer you an excellent benefits package including a final salary pension scheme and a generous holiday entitlement of 30 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays. We offer a range of flexible working options. You can make significant savings on travel thanks to a free Oyster Card travel pass, a 75% discount on national rail season ticket and interest free loan, and discounted travel on the Eurostar. You can also choose to take advantage of a discounted private healthcare scheme, tax-efficient childcare payments and a host of retail, health, leisure and travel offers.

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Closing date: 14 January 2024.

We aspire to be as diverse as the city we serve, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community. We also welcome applicants interested in part time or flexible working. We are a hybrid working company with an expectation of 50% of working days spent in our (central London) office.