Senior Passenger Modelling Specialist

The Opportunity

Your Impact Starts Here.

As part of our Rail & Transit team, you will help shape high-performing transit environments across Canada. This hybrid role—based in Bogota city—puts you at the heart of projects that move people safely, efficiently, and sustainably.

Rail & Transit at WSP is proud to be recognized for project excellence and industry leadership, helping communities modernize mobility and elevate passenger experience nationwide.

Your Impact

• Develop and maintain sophisticated passenger behaviour simulation models for rail, bus, aviation, and urban mobility systems.
• Lead both static and dynamic passenger flow modelling using software such as LEGION, Viswalk, and MassMotion.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams—including engineering, architecture, landscape, and safety—to design integrated and human‑centric simulation environments.
• Conduct rigorous validation, calibration, and testing to ensure simulation reliability, accuracy, and alignment with industry standards.
• Produce high-quality data visualizations, analyses, technical reports, and presentations for client and internal use.
• Support client engagement by translating modelling outcomes into clear, actionable insights.
• Stay current on crowd dynamics, human‑factors research, and modelling best practices, and apply them to elevate project outcomes.
• Contribute to design reviews, innovation sessions, and mobility planning problem‑solving activities.
• Support multiple passenger modelling projects, advising, guiding and overseeing outputs from junior/intermediate staff

The Skills That Set You Apart

• 8 years of experience in passenger modelling or agent‑based simulation within transportation, mobility, or urban planning environments.
• Proficiency in LEGION, Viswalk, MassMotion, or CAST modelling and strong capability in Python and Excel/VBA for analysis and automation.
• Experience modeling major transit facilities and/or involvement in developing Crowd Control Plans (CCPs).
• Strong analytical mindset with comfort navigating complex algorithms and mathematical models.
• Knowledge of MATLAB or R for data visualization and interpretation.
• Understanding of transportation systems, human factors, and crowd dynamics.
• A collaborative, curious, and innovation‑driven approach to solving mobility challenges.
• Advanced English proficiency, both written and spoken.

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Title: Senior Passenger Modelling Specialist

Location: Colombia

Requisition ID: 26001360