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·Jun 8, 2015

Launching OpenTraffic

Launching OpenTraffic — At Conveyal, all of our work is built on open data. With the growth of GTFS and OpenStreetMap, we’re now able to build sophisticated, multi-modal models for transportation networks all over the world, all using freely available data. However, traffic speed data remains conspicuously absent from the catalog of open…

Traffic

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Traffic

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·Jan 9, 2015

Introducing Transport Analyst

Introducing Transport Analyst — We are proud to announce the release of Transport Analyst, a web based application for transport accessibility analysis powered by OpenTripPlanner (OTP). This application was developed in collaboration with the World Bank to create analysis and data management tools in support or improved transportation outcomes in cities around the globe. …

Transportation

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Transportation

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Published in Conveyal

·Jul 10, 2014

What Does Behavioral Science Have to Do With Transportation?

What Does Behavioral Science Have to Do With Transportation? — A version of this post originally appeared at Mobility Lab. Behavioral design expert Ben Foster dropped by Mobility Lab in Arlington, Va. this week to share his perspective with a few dozen transportation experts on how behavioral science can help us better understand how we make decisions and how different…

Transportation

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Transportation

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Published in Conveyal

·Jun 1, 2014

Building GTFS files quickly with geom2gtfs

Building GTFS files quickly with geom2gtfs — What if you want to do rudimentary transit trip planning or perform transit level of service analysis, which usually requires a full GTFS feed, and all you have is a shapefile? We made a thing for that. It’s called geom2gtfs. Here’s how it works.Say, hypothetically, you have a shapefile of…

Public Transit

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Building GTFS files quickly with geom2gtfs

Public Transit

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Published in Conveyal

·Apr 8, 2014

Building Precise Maps with Disser

Building Precise Maps with Disser — Spatially aggregated statistics are pretty great, but what if you want more precision? Here at Conveyal we built a utility to help with that: aggregate-disser. Let me tell you how it works. Let’s start with a classic aggregated data set — the block-level population counts from the US Census. Here’s…

Mapping

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Mapping

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Published in Conveyal

·Feb 24, 2014

Transportation & Behavioral Sciences Summer Internship

Transportation & Behavioral Sciences Summer Internship — Are you interested in how behavioral psychology and behavioral economics can make cities more livable? Conveyal is offering a full-time paid summer internship for students interested in the application of behavioral psychology in changing transportation decisions and outcomes. As an intern you will contribute to the development of software tools…

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·Jan 9, 2014

Hello World!

Hello World! — We’re starting the new year at full speed and assembling the Conveyal team in DC for an action-packed week: TransportationCamp DC Saturday, GMU Public Policy School Registration Now in its third year in DC, over three hundred transportation professional, technologists and planners are gathering at TransportationCamp to share ideas. Conveyal will be…

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