Specialist in Transportation Infrastructure

A transportation infrastructure specialist helps plan, design, and oversee the roads, bridges, rail lines, transit corridors, and related facilities that move people and freight. Depending on the employer, your day might involve reviewing design drawings, running traffic or capacity analyses, meeting with a state transportation agency about a corridor project, or visiting a construction site to check that work matches the plans. You coordinate with surveyors, geotechnical and structural engineers, environmental reviewers, contractors, and public officials, and you often explain technical tradeoffs to people who are not engineers.