Transport and Mobility Engineer - VISSIM Micro Simulation Specialist - Parsons Corporation - Dubai, UAE
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Transport and Mobility Engineer - VISSIM Micro Simulation Specialist plays a key role in advanced traffic operations analysis and mobility planning using PTV VISSIM micro-simulation. Based in Dubai, UAE, this position focuses on developing calibrated traffic models, testing operational improvement strategies, and delivering simulation-driven recommendations that enhance road network efficiency, safety, and intelligent transportation system performance.Job Details
Country: UAE
City: Dubai
Industry: Engineering
Function: Engineering
Salary: 28000-38000 monthly (Market estimated)
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full-timeKey Responsibilities
- Lead development of VISSIM micro-simulation models for intersections, corridors, and urban networks
- Build and code network geometry, signal control logic, and traffic demand inputs
- Perform calibration and validation using observed counts, travel times, and queue data
- Test improvement scenarios including adaptive signal control, coordinated timing, ramp metering, and active traffic management
- Represent operational and safety challenges such as bottlenecks, weaving, pedestrian interactions, and public transport flows within simulation models
- Coordinate with signal, ITS, and safety teams to ensure modeling accuracy and alignment with field conditions
- Translate simulation outputs into clear before and after performance evaluations
- Prepare detailed technical reports, simulation summaries, and executive presentations
- Contribute to agency documentation, guidelines, and SOPs governing micro-simulation usage
- Support workshops and stakeholder sessions to explain modeling assumptions and results
- Update models to reflect new traffic data, implemented improvements, and evolving network conditions
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, or related discipline
- Minimum 8 years of experience in traffic engineering and mobility strategy with strong micro-simulation focus
- Extensive hands-on expertise in PTV VISSIM including calibration and scenario management
- Strong understanding of arterial and expressway traffic operations and ITS strategies
- Experience evaluating adaptive signals, active traffic management, and congestion mitigation strategies
- Ability to connect simulation findings with practical operational and policy solutions
- Excellent analytical, communication, and technical reporting skills
- Experience working in multidisciplinary and multicultural project environments
- PTV VISSIM micro-simulation modeling
- Traffic operations analysis
- Model calibration and validation
- Adaptive signal and ITS strategy evaluation
- Congestion management planning
- Data analysis and scenario testing
- Technical documentation and reporting
- Multidisciplinary coordination
- Lead advanced simulation-driven mobility improvement initiatives
- Work on high-profile metropolitan transportation programs
- Competitive compensation and professional advancement opportunities
- Exposure to intelligent transportation systems and advanced modeling tools
- Collaborative engineering culture focused on innovation and measurable impact
Parsons Corporation is a global engineering and project management consultancy delivering transportation, infrastructure, and digital mobility solutions worldwide. With a strong presence in the Middle East, Parsons integrates advanced traffic simulation, intelligent transportation systems, and data-driven mobility strategies to support safer, more efficient, and sustainable urban transportation networks.Job Title Transport and Mobility Engineer - VISSIM Micro Simulation Specialist - Parsons Corporation - Dubai, UAE
Job Description Transport and Mobility Engineer - VISSIM Micro Simulation Specialist - Parsons Corporation - Dubai, UAEPosition Overview
Transport and Mobility Engineer - VISSIM Micro Simulation Specialist plays a key role in advanced traffic operations analysis and mobility planning using PTV VISSIM micro-simulation. Based in Dubai, UAE, this position focuses on developing calibrated traffic models, testing operational improvement strategies, and delivering simulation-driven recommendations that enhance road network efficiency, safety, and intelligent transportation system performance.Job Details
Country: UAE
City: Dubai
Industry: Engineering
Function: Engineering
Salary: 28000-38000 monthly (Market estimated)
Gender: Any
Candidate Nationality: Any
Job Type: Full-timeKey Responsibilities
- Lead development of VISSIM micro-simulation models for intersections, corridors, and urban networks
- Build and code network geometry, signal control logic, and traffic demand inputs
- Perform calibration and validation using observed counts, travel times, and queue data
- Test improvement scenarios including adaptive signal control, coordinated timing, ramp metering, and active traffic management
- Represent operational and safety challenges such as bottlenecks, weaving, pedestrian interactions, and public transport flows within simulation models
- Coordinate with signal, ITS, and safety teams to ensure modeling accuracy and alignment with field conditions
- Translate simulation outputs into clear before and after performance evaluations
- Prepare detailed technical reports, simulation summaries, and executive presentations
- Contribute to agency documentation, guidelines, and SOPs governing micro-simulation usage
- Support workshops and stakeholder sessions to explain modeling assumptions and results
- Update models to reflect new traffic data, implemented improvements, and evolving network conditions
- Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering, or related discipline
- Minimum 8 years of experience in traffic engineering and mobility strategy with strong micro-simulation focus
- Extensive hands-on expertise in PTV VISSIM including calibration and scenario management
- Strong understanding of arterial and expressway traffic operations and ITS strategies
- Experience evaluating adaptive signals, active traffic management, and congestion mitigation strategies
- Ability to connect simulation findings with practical operational and policy solutions
- Excellent analytical, communication, and technical reporting skills
- Experience working in multidisciplinary and multicultural project environments
- PTV VISSIM micro-simulation modeling
- Traffic operations analysis
- Model calibration and validation
- Adaptive signal and ITS strategy evaluation
- Congestion management planning
- Data analysis and scenario testing
- Technical documentation and reporting
- Multidisciplinary coordination
- Lead advanced simulation-driven mobility improvement initiatives
- Work on high-profile metropolitan transportation programs
- Competitive compensation and professional advancement opportunities
- Exposure to intelligent transportation systems and advanced modeling tools
- Collaborative engineering culture focused on innovation and measurable impact
Parsons Corporation is a global engineering and project management consultancy delivering transportation, infrastructure, and digital mobility solutions worldwide. With a strong presence in the Middle East, Parsons integrates advanced traffic simulation, intelligent transportation systems, and data-driven mobility strategies to support safer, more efficient, and sustainable urban transportation networks.
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Salary from 28000.00
Salary to 38000.00
Number of Vacancies 1
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