GIS Development & Urban Mobility

I apply geospatial analysis and software engineering to urban transit systems in Mexico City. My work spans open-source REST APIs serving GeoJSON data, graph-based analytical models, and academic research within the UNAM Urban Planning Master's program.

GeoPandas PostGIS NetworkX QGIS GeoJSON Spatial SQL GTFS Momepy
GIS experience in CV → Research posts →

GIS & Urban Data Work

Open-source tools and research applied to Mexico City's multimodal transit network.

Apimetro

RESTful API that ingests, models, and serves geospatial data for Mexico City's entire public transit network — Metro, Metrobús, Cablebús, RTP, Trolebús, Tren Ligero, Mexibús, Mexicable, and Interurbano. Returns native GeoJSON compatible with Leaflet, Mapbox, and MapLibre. Built in Go with PostGIS spatial queries, Swagger documentation, and a Freemium license model. Production server live at apimetro.dev.

Go Gin PostGIS GeoJSON GTFS Swagger Docker View on GitHub → Swagger UI →
Apimetro

VFT Model — Urban Transit Analytical Engine

Geospatial and topological analytical engine for evaluating ring-shaped and feeder transit corridors in Mexico City's metropolitan area. Named after the Vanishing Fig-Tree conceptual framework, it processes GTFS-sourced graphs to compute betweenness centrality, Direct-Route Index (DI), and capillary node strength — the core metrics of the TAICMAM thesis. Built on a pragmatic hexagonal architecture: FastAPI, GeoPandas, NetworkX, and Momepy, consuming Apimetro as its data backend.

Research reports and validated notebooks are published as a Jupyter Book.

Python FastAPI GeoPandas NetworkX Momepy Graph Theory View on GitHub → Research reports →
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Habitability Analysis — Acapulco de Juárez

Academic research project on the habitability of the South-East region of Acapulco, developed for the Urban Planning Seminar and the Neighborhood & City Workshop at UNAM FES Acatlán. Covers regional analysis (gravitational model, 50–300 km), local urban analysis, and housing design proposals.

Group project — Bolaño Espejo M.A., Cabrera Garibaldi H.G., Castro Huerta R., Nativitas Vázquez G.

GIS Urban Analysis Gravitational Model UNAM View on GitHub →

UNAM Master's — Urban Planning

Formal academic work at the Posgrado en Urbanismo, UNAM (2025–2027), combining quantitative GIS methods with urban planning theory.

Thesis · In Progress

Ring-Shaped Transit Corridors and Their Role in Mexico City's Metropolitan Area

Tutor: Dr. David López Flores — Posgrado en Urbanismo, UNAM · Tesis TAICMAM

v0.3.2 — Cap. 1 & 2 complete

Analyzes the viability of introducing a circular public transit corridor in the ZMVM, using the southern Peripheral Ring as a validation case. The hypothesis: ring geometry in the Third Contour reduces the Direct-Route Index (DI), average travel time (T), and betweenness centrality (B(v)), demonstrable through computational graph modeling of the full multimodal GTFS network.

LaTeX / XeLaTeX Graph Theory GTFS Urban Mobility ZMVM
↓ Latest PDF release View on GitHub →

Course assignments and LaTeX templates for the Master's program are available in the Trabajos-Maestria-Urbanismo repository — includes institutional UNAM/FES Acatlán Beamer and document templates.


Open to GIS & Research Work

Interested in urban data projects, geospatial API development, or academic collaboration in urban mobility and transit analysis — let's talk.

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