Job Prospects in Transportation Planning

Because transportation planning is a highly skill-oriented field, demand for transportation planners is always high. Due to the high demand for transportation planners in general and the high quality of instruction in the transportation specialization, the job prospects for our students have always been excellent. Most students receive job offers immediately after graduation. In recent years many have received offers even before completion of the degree requirements. Most of our graduates find their initial employment in consulting firms, local governments, or metropolitan planning organizations. Local consulting firms readily employ transportation planning students as interns, sometimes keeping the student as permanent employees upon graduation. Transportation consulting firms in Tallahassee include:

Cambridge Systematics

Hall Engineering and Planning

Kimley Horn & Associates

Post Buckley, Schuh and Jernigan (PBS&J)

Reynolds, Smith and Hill

Rob Palmer Associates (RPA)

URS

Wilber Smith Associates

Students also have interned at the Tallahassee/Leon County Planning Department, the Florida Department of Transportation, at the Marketing Institute, at Taltran, and in south Florida at Tri-Rail and the Miami Dade County Transit Agency.. Department of Urban and Regional Planning graduates with the transportation specialization are working as planners, researchers, and administrators in various parts of the United States. Some of our graduates are in management positions in metropolitan areas within and outside Florida. One is a general manager of a major transit system in California. Many are working as transportation modelers in places like Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. A large number of our graduates are working as transportation/land use planners for government agencies and consulting firms in Tallahassee, Miami, Orlando, Tampa, and other Florida cities. Our graduates are working for the Florida Department of Transportation, and the Federal Highway Administration in Atlanta and Washington, D.C..