• 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.