- Application Deadline: 07/01/21
- Company: Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT)
- Location: Remote
The MDOT Internship Program offers undergraduate/graduate students the opportunity to gain work experience, develop professional competence and long-range career goals, integrate work experiences with academic knowledge, and establish a professional network.
This posting is for the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) in the Bureau of Transportation Planning. The work assignments will be located in the MDOT offices/sites in Lansing (Ingham and Eaton Counties).
Typical Work Assignments: In an on-the-job training capacity, work assignments could include performing entry and intermediate level work, including but not limited to:
Statewide Planning:
- Assist with the Five-Year Transportation Program (5YTP) presentation development for the State Transportation Commission.
- Assist with 5YTP public comment summary and responses.
- Assist with Call for Project analysis, such as cost per lane mile tables, and with the review of candidate projects.
- Assist with funding monitoring reports for trunkline and local templates.
- Review federal and state revenues and assist with trend analysis updates.
- Assist the legislative policy specialists with review and analysis of state and federal legislation and policies.
- Assist the legislative policy specialists in drafting letters to the federal register or legislature.
- Assist the nonmotorized program staff in Act 51 compliance and training coordination.
- Assist in the development of the State Long-Range Transportation Plan.
- Assist in the development and analysis of the Attitudes and Perceptions survey.
Asset Management and Policy:
- Assist the legislative policy specialists with review and analysis of state and federal legislation and policies
- Assist the legislative policy specialists in drafting letters to the federal register or legislature.
- Assist the nonmotorized program staff in Act 51 compliance and training coordination.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS):
- Learn and perform the daily tasks of a GIS professional.
- Learn how GIS and geospatial data supports ongoing MDOT business.
- Design ArcGIS online applications.
- Dashboards
- Real time reporting applications
- Story maps
- Collector applications
- Develop GIS services.
- Map services
- Feature services
- Geodatabase services
- Data services
- Learn to design business and technology project workflows.
- Gain an understanding of Linear Referencing Systems.
- Assist staff in the maintenance of enterprise geodatabases.
- Design event and feature class schemas
- Manage business data via Event Editor
- Create domains
- Validate datasets
- Post and reconcile editing versions
- Field data collection experience
Data Collection & Reporting
- Learn about MDOT traffic and pavement data collection activities and reporting requirements.
- Learn about the Transportation Data Management System and the various modules used to analyze and report data.
- Learn about the systems used to retain and perform QA/QC on traffic and pavement data.
- Learn how data is field collected and uploaded into TDMS and PaveMaPP.
- Learn to generate data reports to support ongoing MDOT business.
- Perform QC work on traffic count data.
- Review, upload, and edit data in the traffic count database.
- Coordinate traffic count scheduling with local transportation and planning agencies.
- Maintain and improve traffic segmentation in GIS environment.