Graduate Transport Planner

Arup is a global consultancy with advisory and technical expertise across more than 150 disciplines, guiding, planning, and designing the future of the built environment.

The Opportunity

This role involves delivering transport planning projects that shape how people and goods move through towns, cities, and regions. Transport planners assess current and future travel demand, advise on transport strategies, prepare evidence for development planning applications, design active travel and sustainable mobility solutions, and support masterplans.

Key responsibilities include:

• Deliver transport planning analysis and advice: Assess existing and future movement patterns, travel demand, accessibility, and transport impacts using transport data, spatial analysis, dashboards, modelling outputs, and data science techniques.
• Support transport strategies, policies, and business cases: Contribute evidence, analysis, and written inputs for strategies, policy work, investment cases, and funding submissions.
• Prepare transport inputs for development and infrastructure projects: Support planning applications, masterplans, regeneration schemes, and infrastructure programmes through transport assessments, movement strategies, and technical reporting.
• Develop sustainable and inclusive transport solutions: Help design and appraise walking, cycling, public transport, interchange, and mobility improvements.
• Work with clients and multidisciplinary teams: Collaborate with public and private sector clients, transport operators, and Arup colleagues across planning, engineering, design, and sustainability disciplines.

Is this role right for you?

Qualifications, skills and attributes required:

• An undergraduate or bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field such as Geography, Civil Engineering, Mathematics, Planning, Data Science, or Environmental Sciences.
• Skills and experience:
  • Transport planning policy and guidance
  • Development planning and site access strategy
  • Transport assessments and transport statements
  • Travel plans and monitoring strategies
  • Junction capacity assessment and traffic impact analysis
  • Strategic and microsimulation modelling
  • Data science and analytics (cleaning, statistical analysis, visualisation)
  • Transport data processing, survey analysis, and evidence base development
  • Data analysis, spreadsheet modelling, and demand forecasting
  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS), including mapping and spatial analysis
  • Active travel, public transport, and mobility planning
  • Road safety, accessibility, and movement analysis
  • Stakeholder engagement and consultation support
  • Business case development and option appraisal
  • Report writing, technical review, and quality assurance
• To be considered:
  • Full working rights in the country of application.
  • No more than 12 months of full-time experience in a comparable role.
  • Recently graduated, or on track to graduate, from your most recent degree before employment starts.
• Core attributes:
  • Changemakers: Care about sustainable development and making a difference.
  • Innovative minds: Think critically, ask hard questions, and are open to new approaches.
  • Growth seekers: Curious, actively seek feedback, and look for development opportunities.
  • Adaptable adventurers: Comfortable with uncertainty and adapt readily to evolving projects and priorities.

What we offer you

Arup offers a competitive total reward package, recognising member contributions. Benefits support health and wellbeing, provide a wide range of learning opportunities, and enable members to have an impact. Benefits include Profit Share, Private medical insurance, Life assurance, Accident insurance, and Income protection cover. Flexible working options are also available.

Next Steps

Applications are reviewed as received, so early application is recommended. The process includes an online application, psychometric testing, application review, case study, interview, and offer stage.

Start Date

1 September 2027

Advert Closing Date

12 November 2026