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Are you passionate about transportation? Do you want to learn more about intermodal connections and build a resource that will provide communities across the Nation with the accurate, reliable data we need to measure connectivity of the transportation network? Do you want to help the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT), planning agencies, and researchers demonstrate the importance and role of passenger transportation in America? Do you have experience working with geospatial data, statistics, and data visualization? Take an appointment with our team as we transform national transportation analysis, and where you participate in developing a new geospatial layer depicting intermodal passenger facilities. This post-graduate research project and developmental opportunity is currently available at the U.S. Department of Transportation. The appointment will be served within the Bureau of Transportation Statistics in Washington, DC or remotely, as a Geospatial Science Fellow.
You will participate in a project to develop an Intermodal Passenger Facility Database, a complete location database of the Nation’s passenger transportation facilities where more than one transportation mode can be accessed, and the newest geospatial layer of the National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD). The database will leverage a variety of data sources, including GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification), FEMA’s USA Structures data, FAA’s airport charts, Location Based Services, web-scraped information, and other innovative datasets. With guidance from BTS OSAV technical experts, you will have the opportunity to:
• Think creatively to collaborate on planning, design, and development of a new product
• Sharpen your research skills by learning to identify existing datasets that could contribute to the Intermodal Passenger Facility Database
• Grow your analysis skills by learning to evaluate the quality of passenger facility data and visualizing dataset extent
• Advance your geospatial skills by refining location accuracy of intermodal passenger facilities, at point and polygon level
• Practice your communication skills by learning to write technical reports, deliver presentations to diverse audiences of transportation professionals
• Expand your transportation research portfolio by working with an emerging dataset that will become a National Geospatial Data Asset (NGDA), with USDOT databases, and with data sources outside of the Department
• Grow your professional network by working across USDOT and with Federal partners to support their passenger transportation research needs, such as equity and climate related assessments
Who are we? We are the U.S. Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). The BTS is the Principal Federal Statistical Agency that provides objective, comprehensive, and relevant information on the extent and use of the Nation’s transportation system, how well the system performs, and the effects of the system on society and the environment. You will have an appointment with the Office of Spatial Analysis and Visualization (OSAV). The OSAV develops geospatial information and visualization tools, conducts spatial and network analyses, develops performance measures related to the transportation network and geographic accessibility provided by the network, prepares maps for BTS publications, coordinates the transportation layer of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure, and publishes the National Transportation Atlas Database (NTAD). OSAV employs high quality cartography and innovative web applications to produce relevant, timely, comparable, complete, and accessible geospatial products and statistical visualizations.
Nature of Appointment
The fellow will not enter into an employee/employer relationship with ORISE, ORAU, USDOT, or any other office or agency. Instead, the participant will be affiliated with ORISE for the administration of the appointment through the ORISE appointment letter and Terms of Appointment.
Annual Stipend and Benefits
Fellows will receive a stipend to be determined by USDOT and other benefits including:
The ideal candidate will have the preferred skills:
The BTS Fellows program prepares a diverse, highly talented, educated, and skilled pool of individuals to address science, technology and policy issues related to transportation systems, and enhances the future workforce to be both knowledgeable and trained in fields of specific interest to transportation and statistics agencies. This is a developmental opportunity, and we encourage you to apply even if you don't believe you fully meet the preferred skills listed. We’re committed to maximizing the diversity of our team and want to hear from anyone who is passionate about our efforts, has a desire to learn, and is interested in supporting our work.
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If you have questions, please email USDOT@orau.org. Please list the reference code for this opportunity in the subject line of your email.
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