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Transportation Planner

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  • Average Salary

    RM2500 - RM 5000

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  • Compability

What is Transportation Planner?

A Transportation Planner generally prepares a study for proposed transportation projects. A Transportation Planner also collects, unites, and analyzes data, studies the use and operation of the transportation system, and develops transportation models or simulations.

Minimum education level

 

PT3

SPM

STPM

Diploma

Degree

Average Salary

RM2500 - RM 5000

Example of a Job Position

Planner
Sea Port Planning Manager
Transportation Planner
Planning Director
Director of Transit Planning

Task

? Prepare reports or recommendations for transportation planning ? Recommend improvements to the transportation system or project, based on projections of the economy, population, land use, or traffic ? Participate in public meetings or hearings to explain planning proposals, to get input from parties affected by the project, or to reach agreement on project design ? Determine the problem or priority of transportation planning, regional or local ? Analyze and interpret data from traffic modeling software, geographic information systems, or related databases

Knowledge

Mathematics

Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.

Customer and Personal Services

Knowledge of principles and processes to provide services for customers and personal. This includes assessing customer needs, meeting service quality standards, and evaluating customer satisfaction.

Law and Governance

Knowledge of laws, legal rules, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, institutional rules, and democratic political processes.

Geography

Knowledge of principles and methods in explaining land, sea and air mass features, including their physical characteristics, location, reciprocal relationships, and distribution of plant, animal and human life.

Transportation

Knowledge of the principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea or highway, including estimates of costs and benefits.

Skills

Talking

Talk to others to convey information effectively

Writing

Communicate effectively through writing that suits the needs of the audience

Critical Thinking

Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to the problems handled

Consideration and Decision Making

Consider the shortcomings and advantages of potential action choices to choose the most appropriate action.

Reading Understanding

Understand sentences and paragraphs written in work documents.

Capability

  • 1

    Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas when speaking, so that others can understand what is being conveyed

  • 2

    Inductive Reasoning - The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules and conclusions (including finding relationships between seemingly unconnected events).

  • 3

    Oral Understanding - The ability to listen and understand information and ideas conveyed through words and oral sentences

  • 4

    Problem Sensitivity - The ability to tell when something is wrong or maybe wrong. This does not involve solving the problem, only knowing if there is a problem.

  • 5

    Written Understanding - Ability to read and understand information and ideas conveyed through writing

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