Also called: Urban Transportation Planner, Regional Planner, MPO Planner
Plans how a city or region's roads, transit, bike lanes, and sidewalks should grow over the next 20+ years.
You analyze traffic and population data, map where new housing is coming, and draft a plan for new bus lanes. Then you present it at a community meeting and take a lot of opinions.
Based on BLS urban and regional planners.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Master's degree, about 6 years after high school. Bachelor's in planning, geography, or engineering; many have a master's in urban planning.
Ways in: 4-year college, Graduate school. Training cost: $15k – $60k.
Majors to look at: Urban Planning, Geography / GIS, Civil Engineering.
Growing about average (about 4% over 10 years). BLS projects about average growth.
Medium risk for 10 years. AI drafts plans and analyzes travel data; public meetings and tradeoff decisions stay human, with leaner teams.
Classes: Geography, Government, Statistics.
Official data: O*NET occupation 19-3051.
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