I wish they had included Toronto. There's an ongoing debate about how to improve transit and being able to see various options compared against each other empirically would be damn useful. As a philanthropic effort an open system that would allow someone to "play" with transit designs might be a godsend for all urban planners. Add in the ability to easily adjust schedules/stops (e.g. bus every 4 minutes, or add a sto…
If you can find equivalent Canadian data sources for the US Census-based ones listed in http://www.cts.umn.edu/Publications/ResearchReports/reportde... , I'd be happy to ask Andrew about computing up a map of Toronto. Looks like he'd primarily need replacements for U.S. Census TIGER 2010 datasets: blocks, core-based statistical areas (CBSAs) and the U.S. Census Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics (LEHD) 2011 Ori…
Re: Report ranks U.S. metros based on how many jobs residents can access by transit
#51Ohh... quick thought you might want to pass on. This study is great for transit access to work... but what about access to parks/recreation and maybe entertainment (this could be tricky because parks are free but entertainment can be anywhere from cheap to expensive). Sort of the other half of the work/life balance.