Visualizing Urban Accessibility Metrics for Incremental Bus Rapid TransitA Framework for Participation!

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Visualizing Urban Accessibility Metrics for Incremental Bus Rapid

Transit: A Framework for Participation  

Anson  Stewart,  MIT  @ansoncfit  

ansoncfit.com  

BRT is flexible and has been implemented incrementally.

BRT projects often focus on operational and political tactics.

Planners   People  

Traditional Participation Framework: Decide and Defend

Feedback  on  or  opposi=on  to  tac=cs  

Project  design  

How can we also maintain a focus on the bigger picture?

How can we connect with riders on the big issues?

Riders groups can be powerful allies.

•  Cumula=ve  Opportunity  Measures  •  Gravity  measures  

Accessibility metrics represent the big issues theoretically.

How can new tools encourage participation that builds the political will to adopt accessibility metrics?

Online tools are encouraging people to remix their cities.

Online tools are creating new forms of feedback.

Planners   People  

Emerging Participation Framework: Limited Feedback

Digital  plaGorms  for  ongoing  engagement  

How can we also maintain a focus on the bigger picture?

Open Trip Planner leverages open data for transit trips.

How  many  buses  pass  you  before  you  can  board?                                        0                                                                                    1                                                                                    2                  How  many  buses  usually  bunch  together?                Evenly  spaced                                                              2                                                                                  3                  

Open tools can invite better system representations...

…and understand the implications regionally

…and create meaningful feedback for operational control

•  Build  current  network  – Collabora=vely  calibrate  by  travel  =mes  

•  Build  possible  networks  – Assess  accessibility  metrics  

•  Advocate  for  plan    

Accessibility provides a participation framework.

Planners   People  

Proposed Participation Framework: Accessibility

Ongoing  dialogue  on  projects  and  accessibility  metrics