TRANSIT RELIABILITY ACROSS CANADA Jason White Shopify

ABOUT MY PROJECT •  Begun for Reliability class @ uOttawa

•  Apples-to-Apples walkability comparison •  Every major transit authority reports on this metric •  Every major transit authority measures it differently

•  No web interface, no UI

•  Just a report

DATA & TOOLS •  Used open data, freely available software •  Microsoft stack: Windows, SQL Server, C#.NET, SQL Report Viewer •  Census data from Statistics Canada •  National Road Network from GeoBase •  GTFS feeds from 10 transit authorities

•  Custom walking distance algorithm

WHAT IS THE METRIC? •  % of population residing or working within: •  400m of a transit stop; or •  800m of a transit station

•  Transit Supportive Areas only •  >= 7.5 households per hectare; or •  >= 10 jobs per hectare*

•  Ottawa claims 98.5% coverage •  That seems high… •  Other cities also claim very high coverage

* Not considered in this analysis

WHY SO HIGH? •  Using aerial distance, not

walking distance

•  Metric based on area (km2)

•  Using only selected neighbourhoods

Proposed LRT Station & Catchment Area Campus Station, Ottawa

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PROJECT OUTCOMES •  Presented to Ottawa CIO @

LearnHackYOW

•  Next Ottawa open data contest to include “data analysis” category

•  Now a Data Analyst @ Shopify

WHAT’S NEXT? •  Bus route shape calculation from GPS data?

•  Transit ridership patterns using Presto?

•  On-Time Performance benchmark?