Transport Planning Assistant practice interview
Route and timetable analysis, travel data checks, clear reporting and support for practical transport improvements. Practise the 5 questions interviewers ask for this role with follow-ups. Paid plans add scored feedback on every answer.
Free with an Intaviu account: 320 credits a month, at 10 credits a minute of practice. Private: interview creators never see them.
- Junior
- 15 minutes
- 5 questions
- Scored feedback on paid plans
About the role
A transport planning assistant helps planners understand how people travel and how services or routes could work better. The panel is looking for careful data handling, balanced option assessment, concise reporting and awareness of passengers, operators and local constraints.
How to prepare
- Practise cleaning and summarising journey time or passenger count data in Excel.
- Review the factors used to compare route, stop and timetable options.
- Prepare an example of turning analysis into a clear recommendation.
- Think through how you would record conflicting feedback from operators and passengers.
- Practise explaining a table or map to someone without a planning background.
Common mistakes
- Recommending a route using distance alone and ignoring demand or access.
- Presenting calculations without checking missing values or unusual records.
- Overstating what a small survey can prove.
- Ignoring the practical concerns of passengers, drivers or service operators.
What to expect
A real first-round interview
5 questions the way interviewers ask for this role, with follow-ups when an answer needs more.
Spoken, like the real thing
Speak your answers in your browser or the free desktop app, with live captions. You can ask the interviewer to repeat anything.
Scored on 4 areas
The things this interview weighs most. With a paid plan, your report shows how you did on each one.
A private report
On Plus, Pro and Premium: every answer scored, your strongest lines quoted and what to say differently next time. Interview creators never see it.
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