2013 ridership data analysed
I spent the last few days poking around in SORTA’s fresh ridership statistics, and I’ve compiled some maps, a couple charts, and a few anecdotes for your general edification. All of this is from data I...
View ArticleA guide to local transit and other geospatial data
A list of good, local geospatial data is one of those things that a few of y’all will find immensely useful and no one else will care about at all. If I haven’t already lost you, keep reading! I’m...
View ArticleOpenStreetMap continues to develop
OpenStreetMap, the wiki map of the world, continues to delight me. I’ve been slowly entering transit information over the last few months and while the effort is far from finished I’ve got most of the...
View ArticleToo many stops or not enough?
Access is a pretty vague word. I don’t think I could succinctly define it and I suspect no one else could either as it regards discussions about transit and transportation. Still, we can imagine a...
View ArticleAn approximation of service frequency
Here is a rather crude, though I think useful, visualization of service frequency at the stop level. Basically, I used the GTFS data from SORTA and TANK to calculate the number of times a bus stops at...
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