Rueichen Tsai

Experience

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  URBANPLAT Planning and Consulting

  May 2021 - Aug 2021

  Planning Intern

  • Utilized Buffer and Intersect tools on land use, socioeconomic, transit, and walkability data for station-level analysis at 400m and 800m buffers to generate detailed land use by area in acres and type for 23 stations using a pivot table.• Synthesized transit data on ridership and demographics to forecast future transit ridership at proposed stations mirroring current ones; Identified opportunity sites for joint development• Prepared PowerPoint presentations for and participated in weekly in-house progress project meetings, as well as triweekly interagency meetings with local government• Assisted in technical report writing on the station analysis section Show less

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  Public Matters, LLC

  Sept 2022 - May 2023

  Planning Intern

  • Assisted in planning and participated in the community engagement activity, Band-aid activation• Utilized Adobe InDesign to craft 3 compelling posters and flyers to promote community engagement activities• Added two sections in ArcGIS StoryMaps to edit event content and seamlessly integrate event photos, enhancing the visual narrative for promoting community engagement activities• Co-created the Norwood Elementary Broken Sidewalks ArcGIS web map, documenting sidewalk conditions and geocoding broken sidewalks for the project Show less

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  Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica

  Jun 2023 - Aug 2023

  Research Assistant

  • Researched cultural landscape preservation and co-authored a proceeding paper titled "On Conserving Nanshan Gravesite: A liminal landscape threaded with a multiplicity of heritage" (p.43 - 52) for the 6th International Conference on Documenting and Researching Gravesites in Pacific Asia. My contributions were the abstract and sections 6.1, 6.3, and 6.4.• Designed a neighborhood characteristic survey in QField for QGIS.

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  School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology (CEEatGT)

  Sept 2023 - Dec 2023

  Graduate Research Assistant

  • Conducted data collection on sidewalk condition in the city of Norcross, Georgia for the $40 million multimodal USDOT-funded project, ITS4US-Georgia system• Added 1,807 sidewalk segments and 2,207 nodes to OpenStreetMap for the city of Norcross, Georgia, as part of the ITS4US-Georgia system

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  Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development, Georgia Tech

  Jan 2024 - now

  Graduate Research Assistant

  • Developed a workflow for gravity-based job accessibility indices using ArcGIS Network Analyst and ModelBuilder for the census tracts in Georgia. Achieved a 72% reduction in repetitive workflow processing time• Conducted qualitative and quantitative research on welfare recipients and prepared a research poster within 25 business days for presentation at the 17th Health Disparities Conference at Xavier University of Louisiana• Estimated census tract-to-tract travel time to construct travel time decay coefficient from extensive LEHD LODES data (3,545,057 records) for the research poster using Python Show less

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  TranSystems

  Aug 2024 - now

  Transportation Planner