Category: Transit Equity

  • Streetcar Equity

    I’ve been banging the transit equity drum quite a bit lately, so I probably owe it to folks to open a discussion about some of the equity issues we need to sort out as we prepare to open the Streetcar Loop in a couple of years. These are issues that are beginning to be discussed…

  • Block Groups Complete

    Our census block groups map for our equity project is now fully scored: View Larger Map It contains the same browser feature as the tract map, you can click on a block group to see its score, then click through to a map of the block group and the sample points. At this level I…

  • TriMet and the Trust Gap Part 4: The equity question and the labor/ridership dispute

    Chris has been doing a series on mapping service equity–examining the correlation between transit service, income levels, and population density in different census tracts. It’s a useful exercise to see how well different communities are being served by transit–there are many parts of the metro area which are poorly served (and some not at all),…

  • Transit Equity: Grouping our Blocks

    I haven’t forgotten our transit equity project, although the Transit Appliance has definitely soaked up a lot of time! I have built the set of Census Block Groups (3 or 4 to each Census Tract) that fit the TriMet service district. Unlike our previous tract-level analysis, I eliminated (visually) all the block groups that were…

  • Thinking About Next Steps for Our Transit Equity Project

    I’ve been trying to get this post done for a while, but RailVolution and working on the Transit Appliance have kept me a bit busy. I’ve also been musing over a couple of very interesting posts from Jarrett Walker at Human Transit that talk about the interaction between transit and density and the difference between…