Transport Planner Apprentice
PEGASUS PLANNING GROUP LIMITED
Bristol, Cirencester, Eastleigh
Closes in 19 days (Monday 20 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 30 September 2025
Contents
Summary
BSc (Hons) Transport Planning is a work-related learning programme that integrates academic learning at degree level with on-the-job practical training. The programme develops the knowledge and skills required to create, plan, coordinate, and deliver transport planning projects that provide safe and environmentally sustainable transport solutions.
- Wage
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£23,809 a year
- Training course
- Transport planner (integrated degree) (level 6)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5:30pm onsite.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 8 December 2025
- Duration
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3 years
- Positions available
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3
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
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To assist with the provision of transport assessments and travel plans, junction modelling, swept path analyses and AutoCAD design.
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To assist with the preparation of Transport Statements, Transport Assessments and Travel Plans for a range of development planning projects.
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To assist with access strategy work, parking strategies, sustainable transport, S106 agreements and guidance such as NPPF, DfT Transport Assessment guidelines, Manual for Streets etc.
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To be able to utilise the TRICS database;
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To research relevant policy and presentation
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To undertake any other duties commensurate with the skills and experience of the post holder and the needs of the company.
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To attend meetings with other consultants, clients and others as appropriate.
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To observe the company’s policies in all aspects of employment and service provision;
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To be aware of, and comply with, the company’s policies and procedures on health and safety at work by adopting safe working practices; reporting any accidents and/or unsafe or hazardous conditions to a director;
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Comply with the ISO 9001, 14001 and 45001 standards;
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To ensure confidentiality at all times in all matters relating to any work or communication with the company and clients;
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Establish and maintain effective working relationships across the business;
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Play an effective part in developing and maintaining effective working practices at team level;
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Liaise with Line Manager regarding workload;
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Work with your Line Manager and to take responsibility for own performance and training and development.
Where you'll work
You can select which locations you want to apply for in your application on Find an apprenticeship.
This apprenticeship is available in these locations:
- Equinox North, Great Park Road, Bradley Stoke, Bristol, BS32 4QL
- 33 Sheep Street, Cirencester, GL7 1RQ
- 3 West Links, Tollgate, Chandler's Ford, Eastleigh, SO53 3TG
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY-LONDON
Training course
Transport planner (integrated degree) (level 6)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- S1: apply and comply with transport policy and planning practice for various modes of transport within relevant national, strategic and local policy contexts, and assess and evaluate the principal impacts of such policies on particular projects.
- S2: determine and apply appropriate methods to design transport schemes, providing for integration between different transport modes and systems, with the intention of providing efficient and secure transport services.
- S3: apply and comply with policies and regulations, including those relating to transport, health and safety, environmental, legal, planning and equality and diversity, and with their organisation’s formal procedures and practices.
- S4: effectively manage tasks and projects, to agreed time and resource budgets, through the application of appropriate project management tools and techniques.
- S5: apply, analyse and evaluate a broad range of appropriate transport statistics and data, utilising appropriate software and digital solutions, to inform and enable decision making within the development of transport solutions. This includes liaising with relevant organisations, such as the police, highway authorities and transport operators, to access a range of data sources and surveys for different modes or travel contexts as well as assessing data suitability, validity, quality, and accuracy relative to its intended application.
- S6: determine the method, manage the collection, analysis, evaluation, and monitoring of data used in the development or delivery of transport solutions. This includes assessing data suitability, validity, quality, and accuracy relative to its intended application.
- S7: use advanced techniques for the analysis of traffic and travel generation and demand, to enable the evaluation and monitoring of transport solutions, taking account of economic (cost-benefit) analyses.
- S8: select, specify, and use a range of transport models and forecasting techniques to support the interpretation of proposed transport solutions. This will include the evaluation of models for local and strategic transport and different modes of transport, using appropriate software packages
- S9: specify the data requirements and targets against which the effectiveness and impacts of a transport policy, plan or scheme can be measured. This includes designing, managing, and monitoring programmes to assess performance over time including the effects on the economy, and other factors such as environmental, accessibility, safety, security, or land use.
- S10: determine the needs of stakeholders in developing transport solutions
- S11: plan various stages of a commercial or operational management scheme in transport, such as initial project development, feasibility study, detailed design, procurement, funding, implementation or assessing effectiveness.
- S12: identify and recommend appropriate types of finance, or funding, for a transport scheme, and contribute to the bidding or procurement of transport planning contracts or projects. This can include establishing and agreeing specifications, budgets, timescales, identifying and assessing possible risks, and preparing or evaluating technical briefs.
- S13: design, promote, implement and evaluate travel planning programmes to increase travel awareness and achieve changes in travel behaviour. This includes setting, monitoring and evaluating targets, identifying and assessing likely benefits, and communicating and liaising informatively and effectively with stakeholders.
- S14: plan, refine and analyse programmes of community involvement, stakeholder engagement or public consultations, to identify transport needs and to develop transport solutions.
- S15: communicate effectively orally and in writing in both formal and informal contexts. Prepare written reports and make presentations, participate and manage meetings, contribute to discussions, and listen actively to ensure the views of others are taken into account appropriately. Seek feedback on your own performance so you can look for ways to improve it.
- S16: apply appropriate transport, environmental impact and development planning laws, regulations and procedures, taking into account the evaluation of public testing and best practice, in gaining formal consent for transport solutions.
- S17: manage the delivery of high quality accurate, well-structured and organisationally compliant documents and recommendations for the work for which they are responsible and to a level appropriate for whom they are intended. This may include written reports, oral presentations, designs, models, calculations, reports and drawings, surveys designs, and calculations.
- S18: manage their own work independently within the limits of their authority and responsibility, making use of support and specialist expertise when appropriate. Develop and maintain productive working relationships with stakeholders and colleagues and support, guide, and motivate team members to enable them to achieve the team’s objectives as well as their own. Actively seek and provide feedback, support decision making processes, and manage any conflicts of interest that may arise in their work with integrity, fairness and consistency in decision making.
- S19: develop their own professional competence reflecting on their CPD records and develop an extended network to support the relevant professional organisations and maintain the required standard of, ethical behaviours and codes of conduct, associated with transport planning.
Training schedule
https://www.nulondon.ac.uk/degrees/degree-apprenticeships/transport-planner/
Requirements
Essential qualifications
Other in:
Desirable qualifications
A Level in:
Degree in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Number skills
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Initiative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
Other requirements
• Experience of working in transport planning, in particular transport statements, assessments and travel plans. •A sound knowledge of S106 agreements and guidance such as NPPF, DfT Transport Assessment guidelines and Manual for Streets•Experience in a private consultancy would be advantageous but not essential.•Excellent report writing •Good IT skills and proficient in Microsoft Office, Excel, Word & PowerPoint•Familiar with transport software packages such as TRICS, AutoCAD, Junction9, Arcady, Picady and LingSig•Strong communication, both written and verbal, and presentation skills.
About this employer
Since 2003, we’ve been solving planning and development problems for our clients successfully, and we’re really proud of that. Even though our work is complex, what we deliver for our clients is very simple: we deliver results. Expertly Done sums up our approach. We listen and learn from our clients, working as true partners who are passionate about delivering excellence and expertise on every step of the journey.
After this apprenticeship
- Transport Planner or Senior Transport Planner
- Transport Modeller or Data Analyst
- Traffic or Highway Engineer
- Policy Advisor or Sustainable Travel Planner
- Project Manager in infrastructure and urban planning
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY-LONDON
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000344464.
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Closes in 19 days (Monday 20 October 2025 at 11:59pm)
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