Measuring Accessibility: Integrated MTA Transit and Pedestrian Network Times for New York City using UrbanAccess

Author: Radley Ciego

This notebook details the main functionality of UrbanAccess with examples using MTA GTFS data, Census block, and OpenStreetMap (OSM) pedestrian network data to create an integrated transit and pedestrian network for New York, NY for use in Pandana network accessibility queries.

UrbanAccess on UDST: https://github.com/UDST/urbanaccess

UrbanAccess documentation: https://udst.github.io/urbanaccess/index.html

UrbanAccess citation:

Samuel D. Blanchard and Paul Waddell, 2017, "UrbanAccess: Generalized Methodology for Measuring Regional Accessibility with an Integrated Pedestrian and Transit Network" Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board, 2653: 35–44.

New York City integrated transit and pedestrian network:

Number of jobs accessible within 15 minutes of each NYC block:

Number of jobs accessible within 30 minutes of each NYC block:

Number of jobs accessible within 45 minutes of each NYC block:

New York City integrated subway, rail, and bus transportation network: