Active Travel England

Active Travel England will be developing tools to support evidence-based investment and policies to support sustainable transport. We're hiring 3 roles at present (there will be more jobs in January). We are already working with the transport simulation and scenario development tool A/B Street and the Low Traffic Neighbourhood design tool and plan to create new web applications to transform active travel infrastructure design, monitoring and evaluation. An exciting thing about these jobs from a software engineering perspective is that you will be starting with a relatively blank slate. In the UK we already have tools like bikedata.cyclestreets.net and www.pct.bike but need to go further than this. Long term, the 7 strong Data and Digital team that you will be part of will develop a comprehensive map based design support tool to provide data of the type in BikeData (and more datasets), drawing tools, and automated assessment of proposed interventions. You will also have a unique opportunity to work with leaders in government and academic sectors in developing new tools as ATE partners and stakeholders. These opportunities will shape future of tools for active travel investment and policy in England and, because the software develop as part of these roles will be open source, beyond. These high profile jobs will have a large impact, see here for context: