Transportation Data Analyst

Job title: Transportation Data AnalystEmployment type: Contract (1099)Workplace: RemoteLocation: Washington, DC metro area (company)Compensation: $60–95 per hour, on activation

About ChiResearch Technologies

ChiResearch Technologies LLC (d/b/a ChiResearchAI) is a Maryland-based data and AI firm working with state and local government. We hold a statewide contract for traffic data analysis, and we build analytics and decision-support tools that public-sector teams can operate and own, under their own governance and data-privacy requirements.

About the role

ChiResearch Technologies holds a statewide contract for traffic data analysis. We are adding named analysts for task orders under that vehicle as they are awarded.

The structure, stated plainly. This is a 1099 engagement activated by task order, not a salaried role. You sign a commitment letter now, we name you in task order responses, and you are paid at an agreed hourly rate when an order is awarded and performed. Nothing is owed before then, by either side. If you are at a traffic engineering or data collection firm and want defined, scoped work alongside your job, that is the profile this fits.

On activation

Process raw count and sensor data — tube and ATR counts, turning movement counts, speed and classification studies — into the analysis the task order specifiesProduce the report in the agency’s required format, figures and tables includedWrite the technical memo and narrative sectionsDocument methods and assumptions so they survive an agency reviewer’s questionsFlag source data quality problems in writing, early

Required

Hands-on work with traffic count data: tube/ATR, turning movement counts, speed and classification studiesFamiliarity with FHWA and state DOT data standards and reporting formatsA technical memo or report you produced that a public agency accepted as a deliverableExcel plus Python or R, and GIS competence

Valuable depending on scope

NTD reporting, APC and AVL transit dataCrash data and HSM safety analysis, SS4A plan contentSynchro, VISSIM, or HCM capacity workPE license — not required; PE status is settled per task order

Who this fits. Either a recent MS or PhD in transportation engineering or transportation planning, or a practitioner with 3–10 years at a traffic engineering or data collection firm looking for scoped side work. Location is not a factor — this is remote desk work.

Compensation. $60–95 per hour on activation, 1099, rate agreed in writing before you are named on any response. This is an independent contractor engagement: no benefits are offered, no other compensation, and no payment before a task order is awarded and performed.