2023 DDOT Internship Program

DDOT's Protected Bike Lane (PBL) team has been instructed by the Office of the Mayor to construct 10 (ten) miles of new PBLs/year. One of the primary ways to facilitate the construction of new PBLs involves road dieting. Road dieting reduces the number of travel lanes and can be challenging both for the engineering and political aspects of the project, and to predict its effect, DDOT attempts to project traffic outcomes. The intern will be performing network wide study of traffic patterns and safety outcomes on post-road dieted projects. The intern will be responsible for contrasting the results of their studies with the original engineering projections to potentially create a higher fidelity traffic model for Protected Bike Lane projects.

DDOT's Protected Bike Lane (PBL) team is a subset of the Active Transportation Branch (ATB), which is itself set within the Planning & Sustainability Division (PSD). The PBL team is responsible for planning, designing, and constructing the District's bicycle lane network. The PBL team is looking for an intern to perform traffic safety, congestion and ADT studies, compare and contrast those findings with engineering traffic projections and develop recommendation on those findings. The intern will be responsible to creating a memo summarizing any findings or identified patterns within the data, developing a modified traffic projection formula for District road diets (if appropriate). These findings will help inform ongoing and future designs of PBL projects within the district, which could potentially help the District adopt the new traffic projection formula for PBL related road diets.