Science and engineering
Urban and traffic planner
Key facts
Employment in this job is holding up or growing in the United States, but it is highly exposed to AI. AI exposure: low according to the ILO, very high according to the BLS. Employment change in the United States by 2035: +2.8% (BLS). Working well with AI is becoming an asset.
The job
Town and traffic planners (ISCO 2164). Town and traffic planners develop and implement plans and policies for the controlled use of urban and rural land and for traffic systems.
Page built from official classifications (ILO, ESCO); figures cover all the jobs grouped here.
29 job titles linked to this page
Titles from the European ESCO classification. They are also used for search.
- business change manager, transportation
- city planner
- city planning engineer
- civil engineer
- country planner
- development engineer - transport planning
- highway and drainage engineer
- junior transport planner
- land developer
- land manager
- land planner
- land use planner
- planner
- planning engineer
- planning technician
- regional planner
- road traffic planner
- senior transport planner
- town planner
- traffic and highway engineer
- traffic engineer
- traffic planner
- transport modeller
- transport planner
- transport planner - development planning
- urban land planner
- urban planner
- urban planners
- urban planning engineer
Training
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Sources
- AI exposure categories and employment projections, 2025-2035 (XLSX file)Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States · August 2026 · official statistics
- Generative AI and Jobs: a refined global index of occupational exposureInternational Labour Organization and NASK · May 2025 · large survey
- ESCO, European classification of skills, competences, qualifications and occupations (job titles and O*NET crosswalk)European Commission · version 1.2 · official statistics
- Jobs in 2030: projections by occupational family (summary table)Dares and France Stratégie · March 2022 · official statistics
- Labour needs survey (BMO) 2026France Travail · 2026 · large survey
- EURES report on labour shortages and surpluses 2025, annexEuropean Labour Authority · June 2026 · official statistics
Checked on 27 October 2026.