# Senior Passenger Modelling Specialist

**Company**: WSP
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $114,600 – $151,800
**Category**: Consulting
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

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

**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 modelling 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.

**Why Choose WSP?**

- Proudly Canadian – we are a Top 100 Employer in Canada for 2026.

- A global community of brilliant minds – your next idea, mentor, or opportunity is always within reach.

- Limitless opportunities start here. Whether it’s across the country or around the globe, we help you tailor your role to match your ambition , because your growth drives ours.

- Flexible work, real balance – we recognize the importance of balance in our lives and encourage you to prioritize the balance in yours.

**Compensation**

- AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT: $114,600 – $151,800

- MB & ON: $104,500 – $143,900

- NB, NL, NS, PEI & QC: $103,500 – $137,400

## Skills

### Required
- LEGION
- Viswalk
- MassMotion
- Python
- Excel/VBA
- MATLAB
- R

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