About

Hey, I’m Adriana! 🚌🌱

I’m currently in my fifth year of Civil Engineering at the University of Waterloo and preparing to begin my Master of Future Cities!. This feels like a natural next step in exploring the questions I’ve been asking for years: how should our cities move and who are they really built for?

Most of my time is spent thinking about transportation systems, public infrastructure and the human patterns behind them. I am especially drawn to the intersection of transit, open data, civic technology, and the incentives that quietly shape whether systems succeed or fail.

What I’ve been up to::

• Worked on Stage 2 of the ION rapid transit project from Kitchener —> Cambridge! 🚆
• Worked on mobility hub and transportation planning projects at Stantec
• Joined the OpenTripPlanner Project to improve trip planning accessibility for transit agencies.
• Worked on TRANSIT-data-tools, a platform to help transit agencies, big and small, manage their GTFS data.
• Launched and organized youth city building events and experiments at Urban Minds.
• Collaborated with a team of students at my school to retrofit and outline finances for century-old residential homes in Kitchener, Ontario Canada, making them energy-efficient and affordable for a local Indigenous family!
• Helped make the housing and mortgage process easier for tens of thousands of clients as a software developer at the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC).

Recognition:

It’s important to acknowledge organizations that have supported me in my quest-to-become-a-transportation-engineer-and-equity-advocate. As a young person, it’s hard to feel credible in what I do, but these organizations believed in me before I did:

• Kurt and Marianne Strobele Engineering Award
• Ontario Professional Engineers Foundation for Education Scholarship
• TAC Foundation Scholarship
• ITE Canada Undergraduate Scholarship
• Stantec Future Leaders Scholarship
• WTS Strategic Partner Scholarship
• WTS Toronto Chapter Scholarship

When I’m not thinking about light rail trains, I can be found cross-country skiing, travelling, reading or painting!

I am always glad to connect with people who care about building better cities, whether that is through software, policy, community building, or fun experiments.

Feel free to stroll through my projects, read my posts, or connect with me on LinkedIn!

My inbox is open: adriana (dot) ceric (at) gmail (dot) com

OSMnx plot of Waterloo, Ontario