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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),…
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Hacking on the Transit Appliance on Sunday
I’ll be at the Civicwebs Hackathon Sunday (starting about noon). This is a gathering of coders to produce applications in the civic realm using open data provided by local governments (or others). I’m hoping to get some help developing a configuration tool for our Transit Appliance. This would be a simple web-based user interface that…
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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…