Senior Transport Modeling - Network Planning

Parsons; Riyadh; On-site; SAR 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons is seeking a Senior Transport Modeling - Network Planning expert in Riyadh to lead metropolitan travel demand analyses and network planning efforts. You will forecast corridor demand, evaluate congestion, and support transportation investments with data-driven recommendations.

The role requires extensive experience in four-step and multimodal modeling, GIS, and programming to deliver actionable insights for citywide mobility planning and infrastructure development.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Transport Planning, or a closely related discipline.
• Advanced degree in transportation or civil engineering strongly preferred.
• Minimum 20 years of experience in transportation planning, travel demand modeling, or network analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic transportation modeling, network planning, and travel demand analysis for Riyadh.
• Apply metropolitan travel demand models to evaluate patterns, corridor demand, and congestion.
• Develop and validate forecasts for major corridors and development zones.
• Provide QA on studies and ensure alignment with strategic mobility goals.
• Translate model results into practical recommendations for infrastructure planning.

Skills

Travel demand modeling

Transportation network planning

Traffic forecasting

ArcGIS Pro

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Transport Planning, or related discipline

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Emme

PTV Visum

ArcGIS Pro

Job description

Senior Transport Modeling - Network Planning, Job Snapshot Role: Senior Transport Modeling - Network Planning Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Industry: Transportation-Trucking-Railroad Function: Town-City Planning Experience: Minimum 20 years Job Type: Full-time Position Overview Senior Transport Modeling - Network Planning in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia is a senior Transportation-Trucking-Railroad opportunity for an expert in metropolitan travel demand modeling, network analysis, traffic forecasting, GIS, and strategic mobility planning. The role supports citywide traffic management and infrastructure investment decisions by assessing how population growth, land-use development, giga projects, public transport expansion, and roadway changes will influence future travel demand, congestion, route choice, and network performance across Riyadh.

Job Details
Country: Saudi Arabia
City: Riyadh
Industry: Transportation-Trucking-Railroad
Function: Town-City Planning
Salary: 40000-60000 Estimated salary range based on similar jobs in the job city; please confirm the final offer with the employer.
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full-time

Role Context The Senior Transport Modeling and Network Planning specialist provides strategic technical leadership for understanding how Riyadh 's transportation system performs today and how it is expected to evolve as the city grows. The position connects metropolitan forecasting with corridor-level traffic management, transforming large transport datasets and sophisticated model outputs into practical recommendations for infrastructure planning, congestion reduction, public transport development, and investment prioritization. Working with transportation planners, traffic engineers, civil specialists, analysts, consultants, operators, and RCRC stakeholders, the role ensures that proposed mobility interventions address both immediate operational problems and long-term network requirements.

Key Responsibilities

The role will provide independent technical assurance across major transportation studies.

• Lead strategic transportation modeling, network planning, and travel demand analysis supporting Riyadh traffic management programs.
• Apply metropolitan travel demand models to evaluate existing and future travel patterns, corridor demand, network loading, and congestion.
• Direct semi-annual transportation assessments to identify material changes in travel demand, development activity, traffic patterns, and overall system performance.
• Provide corridor assessment teams with network-wide analysis to determine whether traffic problems originate locally or result from broader demand and network conditions.
• Evaluate proposed roadway links, capacity improvements, corridor enhancements, transit projects, and multimodal interventions.
• Quantify how alternative transportation scenarios affect traffic volumes, route selection, travel times, congestion, and network utilization.
• Support prioritization of congestion-management projects by comparing existing and forecast transportation demand.
• Assess mobility impacts associated with major development programs, giga projects, population growth, and changing land-use patterns.
• Develop future-year forecasts for strategic corridors, major intersections, development zones, and transport investment areas.
• Ensure traffic-management recommendations consider expected future network conditions rather than relying only on present-day performance.
• Network analysis will include detailed interpretation of metropolitan performance indicators.
• Generate and evaluate vehicle-kilometers traveled, vehicle-hours traveled, network speeds, journey times, congestion measures, utilization levels, and modal shares.
• Identify recurring and emerging congestion patterns across the metropolitan network.
• Examine network connectivity and route-choice behavior under alternative infrastructure scenarios.
• Analyse the relationship between roadway capacity, public transport provision, urban development, and changing travel demand.
• Identify locations where strategic interventions can generate the highest mobility benefit.
• Support development of transportation performance-monitoring frameworks for future assessments.
• Review model assumptions, network coding, traffic analysis zones, trip matrices, demand inputs, and land-use forecasts.
• Evaluate trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice, and network assignment outputs.
• Assess calibration and validation results to determine whether models adequately reproduce observed conditions.
• Reconcile model outputs against traffic counts, travel-time surveys, probe-speed information, and field observations.
• Identify inconsistencies between modeled and observed travel behavior and recommend appropriate investigation or adjustment.
• Develop, calibrate, validate, and apply large-scale metropolitan travel demand models where required.
• Evaluate both roadway and public transport networks within multimodal forecasting frameworks.
• Maintain appropriate technical controls over assumptions and scenario development.
• Apply ArcGIS Pro or comparable GIS platforms to map demand, congestion, network deficiencies, development patterns, and proposed improvements.
• Use spatial analysis to understand relationships between land use, network accessibility, traffic demand, and urban growth.
• Apply Python for transportation data processing, statistical analysis, workflow automation, and visualization.
• Integrate multiple transportation datasets to produce reliable network-level assessments.
• Develop maps, analytical outputs, and dashboards suitable for technical and executive audiences.
• Explore automation opportunities that improve recurring transportation assessment and reporting activities.
• Review strategic transportation models prepared by consultants and external project teams.
• Assess Traffic Impact Studies where development proposals may affect RCRC transportation initiatives.
• Review transportation master plans, forecasting studies, and major infrastructure assessments.
• Challenge assumptions, methodologies, demand forecasts, and model outputs where additional evidence or analysis is required.
• Identify limitations and uncertainties that should be considered before recommendations are adopted.
• Provide quality assurance on transportation forecasting and network-planning deliverables.
• Ensure studies consider both local operational conditions and wider metropolitan effects.
• Work with traffic engineers and civil engineering specialists to develop corridor and network improvement concepts.
• Support development of access strategies, congestion-management initiatives, and transport planning guidelines.
• Translate model findings into infrastructure and operational recommendations that can be understood by decision-makers.
• Evaluate transportation investment alternatives from a network-performance perspective.
• Support development of recommendations for roadway improvements, public transport enhancement, connectivity, and demand management.
• Help determine where strategic planning interventions can complement operational traffic-management measures.
• Prepare technical reports presenting network analysis, assumptions, forecasts, and recommendations.
• Develop executive presentations that emphasize practical transportation implications rather than complex modeling mechanics.
• Produce maps and dashboards that clearly communicate current and forecast mobility conditions.
• Represent the transportation modeling function during workshops and coordination meetings.
• Work with RCRC departments, government agencies, consultants, transport operators, and other stakeholders.
• Present findings confidently to both technical specialists and senior non-technical audiences.
• Support informed decision-making by explaining uncertainties, tradeoffs, risks, and expected transportation outcomes.
• Mentor project and RCRC personnel in transportation modeling, traffic forecasting, GIS, and analytical methods.
• Provide technical guidance on model interpretation and application.
• Strengthen internal understanding of how strategic forecasting supports corridor planning and congestion management.
• Share methods for integrating observed traffic data with long-term transportation forecasts.
• Support development of institutional capability in transportation analytics and network planning.
• Track developments in activity-based transportation modeling.
• Evaluate dynamic traffic assignment approaches where relevant.
• Explore mobility big-data analytics and new transportation data sources.
• Assess AI-assisted forecasting methods for potential practical application.
• Monitor advances in integrated land-use and transportation modeling.
• Recommend technologies and analytical approaches that can improve future RCRC transportation assessment capability.

Ideal Profile

• Bachelor 's degree in Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, Transport Planning, or a closely related discipline.
• Advanced degree in transportation or civil engineering is strongly preferred.
• Minimum 20 years of progressively responsible experience in transportation planning, travel demand modeling, traffic forecasting, or network analysis.
• Extensive experience developing and applying metropolitan-scale travel demand models.
• Strong knowledge of four-step and multimodal transportation modeling.
• Advanced understanding of trip generation, trip distribution, mode choice, assignment, network coding, and zone structures.
• Demonstrated expertise in model calibration and validation.
• Extensive experience evaluating roadway networks, public transport systems, land-use scenarios, master plans, and major infrastructure investments.
• Advanced proficiency with Emme, PTV Visum, or comparable strategic modeling software.
• Strong GIS capability using ArcGIS Pro or similar platforms.
• Practical Python experience for transportation analytics, automation, statistical processing, and visualization.
• Ability to interpret very large datasets and convert analytical findings into practical recommendations.
• Strong understanding of relationships between urban development, land use, transport demand, roadway capacity, public transport, and network connectivity.
• Proven ability to independently review models and studies produced by consultants or developers.
• Strong technical writing and executive presentation capabilities.
• Ability to manage complex assignments while supporting multiple concurrent transportation studies.
• Extensive Riyadh experience is highly desirable, particularly familiarity with the city 's transportation network, development patterns, planning environment, and strategic traffic forecasting models.
• Previous experience supporting RCRC or predecessor organizations is advantageous.
• Experience with metropolitan transport master plans, multimodal strategies, and large-scale GCC transportation programs will also strengthen suitability.
• Arabic language capability is desirable but not mandatory.

Skills Set

• Travel demand modeling
• Transportation network planning
• Traffic forecasting
• Metropolitan transport planning
• Four-step modeling
• Multimodal transportation modeling
• Trip generation
• Trip distribution
• Mode choice modeling
• Traffic assignment
• Network coding
• Traffic analysis zones
• Model calibration
• Model validation
• Emme
• PTV Visum
• ArcGIS Pro
• GIS spatial analysis
• Python
• Transportation data analytics
• Statistical analysis
• Network performance analysis
• Traffic congestion analysis
• Corridor planning
• Strategic traffic modeling
• Public transport planning
• Road network planning
• Traffic Impact Studies
• Transportation master planning
• Land-use transport analysis
• Traffic counts
• Probe-speed data
• Travel-time analysis
• Vehicle-kilometers traveled
• Vehicle-hours traveled
• Modal share analysis
• Infrastructure scenario testing
• Congestion management
• Transport investment planning
• Dynamic traffic assignment
• Activity-based modeling
• AI-assisted forecasting
• Mobility data analytics
• Integrated land-use transport modeling
• Transportation dashboards
• Technical quality assurance
• Executive transportation reporting

Why Join Us

This role offers the opportunity to influence long-term mobility planning for one of the region 's fastest-developing metropolitan areas. Riyadh 's continuing population growth, major development programs, expanding public transport network, and substantial infrastructure investment create strong demand for advanced Transportation-Trucking-Railroad expertise capable of connecting strategic forecasting with practical congestion-management decisions. The position provides exceptional exposure to metropolitan transportation planning, data-driven decision-making, advanced modeling, multimodal strategy, and government stakeholder engagement while offering scope to shape future analytical capability and mentor the next generation of transportation specialists.

About the Company

Parsons Corporation delivers engineering, transportation, infrastructure, program management, technology, and planning services for complex projects worldwide. In Saudi Arabia, its multidisciplinary teams support major urban mobility and infrastructure programs, bringing together transportation planning, traffic engineering, data analytics, civil engineering, and project delivery expertise to help address the evolving needs of rapidly growing cities.