Gord Ker

Transportation Planner - Rail Service Design @Metrolinx

Toronto, ON, CA

Manage projects for new, expanded, or modified rail services to accommodate growth, changing markets, and provincial/municipal transportation plans, assessing impacts on ridership, schedules, equipment, capital and operating budgets and other corporate resource requirements.• Develop, assemble, and maintain databases on ridership, revenue, fares, schedules, costs, market characteristics, operating performance, or other factors as required for on-going monitoring.• Coordinate projects with other internal offices for input, development of recommendations, implementation, monitoring, and administration.• Conduct market research and transportation analysis to develop plans and business cases for new and/or expanded services including resource requirements, revenue and ridership projections, and capital and operating cost estimates.• Monitor and analyse services to identify short- and long-term service issues, opportunities, and determine rail traffic operating plans, infrastructure requirements, and other resource requirements.• Recommend strategic service design, identify, and evaluate existing resources required to provide optimum levels of service, and identify potential improvements to service to meet objectives.• Responsible for modelling and simulating rail networks using industry and best practice standards to test and validate timetables and investigate impacts resulting from track impairments, speed restrictions, and increased train frequencies.• Participate in a variety of rail network analyses, studies, computer simulation model development or modification, and technical report generation addressing a wide range of operating, infrastructure and performance issues.

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Goodman School of Business at Brock University

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