This year has seen new momentum for evaluating how transportation can advance both equity and access to opportunities. In the United States for example, over the course of a few months: The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) publishes a Request for Information (RFI) on Transportation Equity Data. Methods for measuring…

[ Editor’s note: This guest post is authored by Juliet Eldred, who recently joined Trillium Solutions as a Project Manager.] Conveyal makes it easy for transportation and planning professionals to model bicycle trips and sketch changes to street networks. In my previous post, I examined the Level of Traffic Stress…

[ Editor’s note: This guest post is authored by Juliet Eldred, who recently joined Trillium Solutions as a Project Manager. It is the first part in a series on street network modifications and other new Conveyal features. ] Recent and upcoming Conveyal updates make it easier to account for Bicycle…

The network analysis capabilities of Conveyal’s cloud-based software make it a useful tool for exploring the impact of evolving transportation options. To test some new features in Conveyal Analysis, we recently conducted two sets of calculations — access to transit stops with frequent service, and access to jobs — for…

In the last few years, we have worked hard to scale up Conveyal Analysis, our cloud-based platform for rapidly modeling multi-modal transportation networks and assessing them with accessibility indicators. Key components of this platform, such as the web-based public transit scenario editor, began as experimental tools for our internal use…

It is an exciting time for the OpenTripPlanner project. OTP, which will mark its 10-year anniversary next summer, saw a long-awaited 1.0 release just over two years ago. Since then, Conveyal has been active in efforts on both sides of the Atlantic to refresh the OTP codebase and expand the…

Since GTFS was born, Conveyal has helped agencies create, manage, and distribute public transportation data. Now, we’re making it even easier. — Author’s Note: As of May 1, 2019, Data Tools, OpenTripPlanner, and the supporting staff for these products (myself included) have moved from Conveyal to IBI Group as of May 1, 2019. You can find more information about this change in this press release. If you would like to inquire about…

The purpose of public transport is to provide access to opportunities, such as destinations where employment, health care, and other services are located. Accessibility indicators combine transport network and spatial opportunity data, making them holistic characterizations of metropolitan regions that are appealing from a policy perspective and a focus of…

This is part three in a series about interactive transit accessibility sites and is more aimed towards web developers. We recommend reading one and two first. Taui is Conveyal’s solution for publishing fast interactive transit accessibility websites using high fidelity models that scale to handle any number of users for…