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2024-2025 Yearlong Service Planning Analyst Intern

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Chicago Transit Authority

Jan 13, 2024

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  • Internship
    Part-time
    Off-cycle Internship
  • Architecture & Urban Planning
  • Chicago

Requirements

  • Educational Experience/Requirements:
  • Preferred Major(s): Urban Planning, Architecture, Public Policy, Urban Design, Transportation Planning, Geography, Engineering, Economics, Data Analytics, Logistics or other related discipline with a strong quantitative component.
  • Preferred Level of Education: College graduate student
  • Required enrollment status: Full-time (as defined by your academic institution) in a degree program at an accredited college or university
  • Physical Requirements:
  • The demands associated with the normal office environment
  • Must be able to comply with office policy to work on-site twice per week
  • Light physical activity, including walking outdoors and climbing stairs
  • Field work may be required, which may include riding the CTA system and walking/standing for a few hours at a time during field observations/data collection
  • Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
  • Strong Microsoft Office and computer skills
  • Strong oral and written communication skills
  • Good analytical and critical thinking skills
  • Good organizational skills with attention to detail
  • Good project management skills
  • Experience with SQL
  • Ability to concisely summarize information in presentable materials
  • Understanding of transit planning concepts
  • Experience with Esri's ArcGIS suite
  • Knowledge of data programming languages preferred

Responsibilities

  • In this role within the Scheduling & Service Planning department’s Service Planning unit, interns will:
  • Research peer agencies, conduct literature reviews, and interview/survey current CTA operators regarding night owl service and the operator selection process.
  • Create a model to understand which types of runs are most likely to be selected by operators.
  • Ability to decipher and make changes to data in order to determine potential service delivery modifications and the factors of prospective alterations within resources of the current workforce.
  • Combine demographic and ridership data into this model as well to understand the social-economic and customer impacts.
  • Compile final reports and present findings to CTA staff.
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