Urban Transit Planner - GTFS

Aceolution is seeking an Urban Transit Planner - GTFS based in Delhi, India, for a 12-18 month renewable contract. The role requires expertise in local transit data and geospatial concepts, focusing on improving transit data and consulting on urban transit systems. Responsibilities include communicating with stakeholders, developing transit data pipelines, and ensuring data quality. The position emphasizes collaboration and local policy insights for effective transit planning.
Aceolution is hiring for Mapping City Expert based in the Delhi. The ideal candidate should have a strong understanding of geospatial concepts in and around Delhi, with in-depth knowledge of local transit specifics data about public transportation system and its regulations.

Job Type: Contract

Contract Duration: 12 - 18 months, Renewable

Location: Delhi, India

Role Objective

The team works on keeping Maps Data current and reflective of real-world changes. They work on issues submitted by end users of Maps or test the location results of user queries submitted via Web Search or Maps interface. The Mapping City/Country Expert will be responsible for high impact work in improving transit data and providing City specific expertise. The City/Country Expert will be responsible for developing and maintaining transit data pipelines and establishing the ground truth in the city/country they work and also the consultant of the Country for any Transit/Micro mobility projects.

Role & Responsibilities as City/Country Expert Consultant:

Communicating with internal stakeholder teams and external companies to achieve project goals

Provide input to create city/country specific policy to existing general transit related policy.

The city/country expert works to apply existing Mapping policies to their specific city/ country, providing insights into local transit/traffic laws, landmarks and key mapping features.

Consulting on Urban transit system and Multi modal (including Micro mobility & Walking)

Review of mapping operations issues for quality checks related to specific city/countries of expertise.

Point of contact for mapping operations country-specific questions

Document and analyze the information needs of the product improvement for client and facilitate to deliver appropriate solutions.

Perform market comparison analysis of the features, data or issues related to local transit

Proactively suggest improvements to the data management platform and also Identify transit user expectations, data gaps and provide insights to the product team.

Provide inputs to product/partnerships teams regarding local transportation modes and growth opportunities

Act as a Country/Regional Transit POC for internal and external teams

Understand the background, priority and impact of the request and also communicate effectively with program managers/ stakeholders on the ask / timeline and priority

Data Management

1. Data acquisition and quality

Create city level transit data modeling policies based on market needs and local regulations

Leverage familiarity with local/regional urban transit systems and expertise to Identify patterns and systematic data problems or gaps in transit data and make changes in the data model to improve and solve the issues.

Make necessary edits for all transit data types if the provided static data is not accurate

Identify transit user expectations, broken critical user journeys, data gaps and provide insights to

the product to improve the same.

Assist Program Managers to communicate with the partner/provider about required data fixes or

inform about problematic data areas.

Data evaluation and GTFS mapping for prioritized cities to identify need for internal adaptors,

standardization.

2. Data reliability

Gain in-depth knowledge of the data, processes, tools and policy (applicable to all processes/data types)

Translate and interpret comments and actions from various sources (E.g. (Users feedback) and

troubleshoot problems based on instructions, training and context

Field escalations of complex or edge-case data issues from internal teams and resolve

appropriately including creating bugs for external teams

Conduct in city field research to determine the ground truth of transit issues and user

problems

3. Data freshness

Validate quality of new and updated data in the data management platform

Manage city specific data pipelines through the transit data management platform, including

updating pipelines using basic programming skills.

Develop outages and alerts capabilities in their assigned city by effective monitoring

Work with other internal teams to ensure correct political format for the country is utilized

On call support during non-workings hours and Weekend in case of any data outages

Experience / Skills

Minimum 3 years of experience in GIS City Mapping.

Graduate in Transportation planning or equivalent experience.

Good Communication skills (Read, Write and Speak) in English and native local language

Basic Data analytics and Tech writing skills is required

Deep knowledge about City transit/traffic network/Urban planning

Knowledge of transit-specific data format by using GTFS is an added advantage.

Basic knowledge about GIS mapping tools and programing skills (java, C#, C++ and Python).

Comfortable with a rapidly changing environment

Strong problem-solving skills and excellent attention to detail

Flexibility for field trips as needed is necessary.

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