Diego Galdino, M.Sc.

Experience

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  CNPq - Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development

  May 2015 - Jun 2016

  Undergraduate Research Fellow

  Participated in the BRAMAR project. The BRAMAR project was a German-Brazilian partnership to develop tools and studies to mitigate water scarcity in the Brazilian northeastern region. - Data collection, processing, and analysis on rainfall data.- Development of a low-cost pluviometer using Arduino hardware and software.

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  PLANEJ | Junior Enterprise of Civil Engineering and Architecture and Urbanism of UFPB

  Jul 2015 - Jun 2016

  President Co-founder

  - Responsible for strategic planning, fund-raising, team recruitment and development, portfolio building, and project management. In recent years, the company has gained state and national prominence, becoming one of the most successful junior companies in Brazil, which has the largest network of junior companies in the world.

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  Concremat Engenharia e Tecnologia

  Sept 2017 - Aug 2018

  Civil Engineering Intern

  - Data collection, processing, and analysis in topics as sidewalks accessibility, bike lanes, traffic-related accidents, and transit trip patterns in the metropolitan area of Joao Pessoa/Paraiba/Brazil.- Write reports on local urban mobility for the Joao Pessoa's Mobility Master Plan.- Facilitate workshops and public meetings to present and receive feedback about the future of the urban mobility in the metropolitan area of Joao Pessoa.

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  PB Júnior - Federação de Empresas Juniores da Paraíba

  Jan 2018 - Aug 2018

  Vice President

  - Responsible for financial administration and people development (20-25 team members).

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  CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior

  Mar 2019 - Jun 2019

  Graduate Research Fellow

  Short period at the Department of Transportation Engineering of the University of Brasília (UnB) before joining the Ohio State University.

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  The Ohio State University

  Aug 2019 - now

  Hired as Research Assistant Engineer after graduation (Summer 2022).Responsibilities:- Provide and improve monthly reports (e.g., Ridership, O-D matrix, Load, Headway, etc.) on CABS system to Transportation and Traffic Management (TTM), the CABS's provider.- Keep our lab's SQL and other databases updated with campus-only and Columbus transit and traffic data.- Assist undergrad and graduate students that work for the Transit Laboratory with transportation data processing and analysis.- Assist professors Dr. Rabi Mishalani and Dr. Mark McCord in transportation classes with materials and in-class guidance for students when working with in-house-developed and private software as TransCAD and Matlab.- Debug and sanity check outputs of laboratory's scripts on diverse transit- and traffic-related data processing.Achievements:- I coded more than 10,000 lines of code in Python while translating and updating old Matlab codes and creating new scripts for the laboratory's works. Examples below.--->--->--->---> Show less Graduate Research Assistant for the Transit Laboratory at The Ohio State University, a laboratory that researches topics related to the planning, service, design, and operations of public transportation. The focus of the Transit Laboratory is on using data collected from in‑service systems to enhance the understanding of complex transit related phenomena and develop means to improve policy-making, planning, and service provision.Responsibilities:- Data collection of boardings and alightings on Campus Area Bus Service (CABS) buses.- Traffic volume in-loco and video-assisted data collection in the Columbus campus area.- Provided monthly reports (e.g., Ridership, O-D matrix, Load, Headway, etc.) on CABS system to Transportation and Traffic Management (TTM), the CABS's provider.Achievements:- Thesis approved: Using APC Data to Investigate Changes in City-wide Transit Origin-Destination Flows from Deliberate Interventions or Exogenous Events.- Developed a Python-based tool that estimates origin-destination flows with the Central Ohio Transit Authority's (COTA) APC data and facilitates geospatial passenger trip pattern analyses among city-wide transit zones.- Developed a Python-based tool to automate 2/3 of the traffic volume video-assisted data collection, saving the laboratory nearly 1,000 hours per year of manual work that used to be performed by GRA and undergrad students ($15-$20/hr). Show less

  • Research Assistant - Engineer

    May 2022 - now

  • Graduate Research Assistant

    Aug 2019 - May 2022
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  Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission

  Oct 2022 - Jun 2023

  Associate Engineer

  Associate Engineer (planner/modeler) for MORPC, the Central Ohio’s regional council. MORPC conducts transportation planning in Central Ohio and serve as the U.S. Department of Transportation’s designated metropolitan planning organization (MPO) for the Columbus urban area.Responsibilities:- Coding the central Ohio's highway network for our region's CUBE-based Travel Demand Model.- Keeping internal database updated with traffic and turning movement counts that are collected by consultants.- Preparing geospatial traffic analyses (e.g., ADT) for consultants and reports. Common tools for this are ArcGIS, StreetLight, and Python (libs Geopandas, ArcPy, Folium).Achievements:- Developed a Python-based tool for transit network coding using GTFS feeds. The tool matches the transit network with the highway network and exports the new merged network shapefiles (for general GIS) and .net (for CUBE/Bentley) as well as transit-only nodes and links information and line file for CUBE models. GitHub Repo: https://github.com/morpc/morpc-gtfs-to-public-transit-network.- Wrote Python scripts to snap traffic counts from local and state sources to roads for travel demand model evaluation purposes.- Wrote a beta version Python script to expand our modeling road network by taking links and nodes from secondary road networks (e.g., ODOT’s). I could not finish it due to leaving the agency, but I left a good basis for future versions. Show less

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  Ohio Department of Transportation

  Jul 2023 - now

  GIMS Data Base Administrator

  - Statewide Activity-based Travel Demand Modeling- Help Ohioan Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs) with travel demand modeling related works- Post assignment direct costs (crashes, delays, operating costs)- Air Quality Modeling (MOVES)- Origin-destination traffic analysis (CTPP, Streetlight)- Traffic count spatial analysis and conflation to Travel Demand model networks- Traffic count propagation on interstate roads- Household Travel Survey- Geocoding works

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  Ohio Travel Demand Model User Group (OTDMUG)

  Jan 2024 - now

  Secretary

  Website: https://www.otdmug.org/The Ohio Travel Demand Model Users' Group is a voluntary organization of metropolitan planning organizations (MPO's), consultants, government leaders, and educational institutions from throughout the State of Ohio, operating in association with the Ohio Department of Transportation. The primary purpose of the OTDMUG is to foster a cooperative effort in travel demand forecasting and the design and implementation of travel demand models throughout the entire state. The OTDMUG will also serve as a forum for the discussion and study of common problems of a statewide nature, and for the development of policy and action recommendations relating thereto. Show less