Analyzing Bike Share and Public Transit Integration using GPS and Spatiotemporal Distance Decay

Posted 4 months ago

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One of the most persistent challenges in public transportation is the "first-and-last mile" (FM/LM) problem: how riders travel from their trip origin, such as homes or workplaces, to the nearest transit stop, and then from the disembark stop to their final destination. In my recent PhD research, published in Travel Behaviour and Society, I examined how bike share systems can help bridge this gap in Hamilton, Ontario.

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Computing Catchment Areas for Bus Stops using GTFS Static Data

Posted 12 months ago

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In this tutorial, I’ll demonstrate how to compute catchment areas, or network buffers, around transit stops in Hamilton, Ontario, using the ArcPy Network Analyst module and Hamilton Street Railway (HSR) General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) static data from Open Hamilton. Step 1: Import Required Packages Let’s begin by importing the necessary packages. The urllib and […]

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