Benefits of PTP, RSP1, and RSP2

I just passed my PTOE and now I'm looking at the PTP, RSP1, and RSP2 and my boss wants me to give the local and national benefits of the certifications. I wanted to ask the community what the benefits of each are. I understand some RFPs need a requirement of X certs but haven't heard much of this with these 3 certs but also realize across the 3 certs about 1500 people internationally have taken them so there must be some sort of value but just would like to understand what is the value.

Hi! Unfortunately I don't know of any benefits of the PTP other than it was just something I could do to tie in my Urban Planning Degree with my 10 years experience working in Transportation (highway/transit). If you have a PE, PTOE and RSP, my agency is more likely to hire you and assign different tasks to you. I wish I could be of more help! I did have a question for you, what email address did your exam results come in from?

I logged in to my page on TPCB and saw that the PTP designation was added to my name on my account, I don't believe I did that. I took the PTP back in June. I emailed Ann from TPCB about the test results and she said to check my email and spam folders. I'm not seeing ANYTHING. I asked if she could tell me what email address to search and I haven't heard back yet. I just want to know if I did indeed pass the exam! I'm so anxious about it!

Splumer said:

Hi! Unfortunately I don't know of any benefits of the PTP other than it was just something I could do to tie in my Urban Planning Degree with my 10 years experience working in Transportation (highway/transit). If you have a PE, PTOE and RSP, my agency is more likely to hire you and assign different tasks to you. I wish I could be of more help! I did have a question for you, what email address did your exam results come in from?

I logged in to my page on TPCB and saw that the PTP designation was added to my name on my account, I don't believe I did that. I took the PTP back in June. I emailed Ann from TPCB about the test results and she said to check my email and spam folders. I'm not seeing ANYTHING. I asked if she could tell me what email address to search and I haven't heard back yet. I just want to know if I did indeed pass the exam! I'm so anxious about it!

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I actually have yet to get an email about the results and I'm only going off the update on TPCB as you are. I'm starting to get a little anxious as it's been 3+ days since they've made the change. I'm assuming since it has an expiration and certification active date of yesterday that it's correct but would hate to have the situation that happened to PA PE takers where the website said they passed and 4 weeks later they were given official results that they failed.

As for the RSP vs PTP item, that's actually super interesting because not many have either in Delaware and so the jury is kind of out on the need but have been seeing more public agents going RSP over PTP. Originally my boss wanted me to go PTP route but then backtracked due to not hearing much of a need for the certification here and told me to go and investigate both on a local and national levels. You may not think you gave me much but you definitely gave me more of an understanding of which is probably a better route to go as a traffic engineer who might dabble in planning once in a blue moon while working with MOT and detours weekly.

You should go for RSP if you work on safety projects as I think it is a requirement for some proposal (don't quote me on this, I'm not a PM). I got my RSP1 just because I'm being assigned a lot of existing and predictive safety analysis.