Also called: Curb Manager, Parking Planner
Plans how a city uses curbs and parking: delivery zones, bike lanes, rideshare pickups, and meters.
Curb planners study data on deliveries and parking, design loading zones for delivery robots and trucks, and set meter prices that keep spots available. It's a surprisingly hot area as cities juggle scooters, rideshare, and e-commerce.
Estimate from BLS urban and regional planners.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Bachelor's degree (4-year), about 5 years after high school. Bachelor's in planning or engineering; master's common.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Urban Planning, Civil Engineering, Geography.
Growing about average (about 4% over 10 years). BLS urban and regional planners projection (approximate).
Medium risk for 10 years. AI and sensors analyze curb use in real time; designing rules and handling public pushback stay human.
Classes: AP Statistics, AP Human Geography, Economics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 19-3051.
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