Transport Planning – Surface Transport

• Placements
• Further education and professional studies
• Duration
• Entry requirements and minimum criteria
• Applications

London is growing faster than any other UK city. But this rapid expansion isn't without its unique transport challenges. How do we meet the needs created by more people and more jobs? How do we make transport less polluting, more sustainable and more accessible? How do we enable the efficient movement of people and freight today?

Working in Surface Transport, in London Buses, London Streets or other directorates, these are just some of the questions you'll help us to answer. 

Placements

Placements usually last six months. Internally, they can include:

London Buses

• Network Development
• Performance Management
• Consultation and Stakeholder Engagement
• Contracts Tendering
• Infrastructure Development
• Network Operations

London Streets

• Traffic Analysis Centre
• Planned Interventions
• Capital Project Initiation
• Traffic Design Engineering

Other

• Strategy and Policy
• Borough Projects and Programmes
• Bus Priority
• Cycling, Walking and Accessibility
• Road Safety

You'll also have the option of taking part in external placements, such as:

• Congestion Charging and Traffic Enforcement
• Borough Partnerships
• Greater London Authority - Transport Strategy
• London Development Agency - Urban Design and Architecture
• London Boroughs
• TfL's consultants

Further education and professional studies

In your first year you'll be encouraged to apply for further formal qualifications to start in your second year - in particular the MSc courses in Transport Planning run by Imperial College London or Westminster University. TfL will pay all the fees of these courses and provide you with day release to attend.

We'll also support you to become a member of a professional body, such as the Chartered Institution of Highways and Transportation (CIHT), the Transport Planning Society (TPS) or the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) - and to work towards a formal professional qualification with them.

Duration

The first two years are usually spent in four placements of six months. In your third year you'll no longer be on the graduate scheme but you will be offered a permanent role in one of the TfL Surface teams while being allowed to complete your MSc.

Entry requirements and minimum criteria

You'll need a minimum 2:1 degree (or equivalent) in transport planning, town planning, modelling, maths, statistics, physics, engineering, geography, biology, chemistry, communication, history, economics, political sciences, politics or human geography.

• Graduate in appropriate discipline with appropriate classification - 2:1 
• High standards of written communication, verbal, numerical and inductive (ability to deal with ambiguous data) reasoning
• High standards of verbal communication
• Skilled in analysis and problem solving
• Keen on embracing change
• Collaborative, and keen to share information, knowledge and skills
• A strong focus on internal and external customers
• A commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
• Keen to seek out new opportunities for learning and career progression and challenges
• Be able to identify the goals of any project and work steadily towards them
• Able to take a structured and methodical approach to any task, identifying priorities and setting deadlines
  

If you're successful you'll have to pass pre-employment checks before joining. These will include reference checks, qualifications checks, right to work in the UK and in some cases a medical and a Criminal Records Bureau check.

Applications

Applications close on 3 January 2012.

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