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Level 3 BTEC Diploma
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Levy Paying Employers will pay the above amount in full. For more details email - complaince@lcb.ac.uk
Course overview
This Transport Planning Apprenticeship is available to anyone aged over 16.
Transport planning technicians provide technical support to professional transport planners in the preparation, assessment and implementation of policies, plans and projects to manage and improve local, regional, national and international transport systems, services and their connections with land.
Transport planning technicians solve problems like traffic jams and find innovative, sustainable solutions to transport needs.
Transport planners come from a wide variety of backgrounds including mathematics, engineering and social sciences. They can work for both public sector authorities and private sector companies.
Information for employers
The UK Government reformed the way apprenticeships are designed, funded and delivered to ensure the training that apprentices receive is rigorous and responsive to employers’ needs.
At the core of the apprenticeship reform is a new apprenticeship standard and an assessment plan. In our employer guide for this apprenticeship, you can find both alongside an overview of the apprenticeship, information about the college, processes for recruiting different kinds of apprentices, a employers consortium section and information regarding levy and non-levy payers.
For more information, read our guide to the Transport Planning Apprenticeship.
Entry requirements
Apprentices should have four GCSEs at grades 9-4 (A*-C) including English, maths and science.
All applicants will be required to pass an assessment and be aged 16 or over, already be employed or have secured a work placement.
To search and apply for apprenticeship vacancies visit the national apprenticeship vacancy website.
If you are aged 16-18 and unable to find an apprenticeship, you can apply for a study programme and switch over at any point when you do find one.
What skills and qualities do apprentices need?
A careful, methodical and accurate approach to your work, IT skills, innovative thinking.
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On completion of this course, apprentices will have learned the following:
- The policy, legal and regulatory context within which transport planners work.
- How to collect and analyse data, including new data obtained through transport and traffic fieldwork.
- Transport and traffic models, forecasting and the principal analytical methods and software packages in general use.
- The assessment of transport and traffic policies, plans and projects.
After completing this course there are a number of options available; depending on your final grade you could move onto an a higher education course including a HNC/HND, higher apprenticeship or a degree at university, or you could seek employment.