Public Transit Analysis in ArcGIS

Public transit (like buses and subways) serves the people of a city by providing access to jobs, education, shopping, healthcare, recreation, and more. Traffic congestion, climate change, and the evolving urban economy and population have created a greater need than ever to understand how well transit is serving our cities. In this video series, we’ll do a deep dive into tools and techniques in ArcGIS Pro for doing geographic analysis with public transit data in order understand our public transit systems and model the way they connect our communities. The bulk of the series will focus on how to use your public transit data to answer a series of essential questions: Who does the public transit system serve? How well are people served by transit? How easily can people access important destinations by transit? To answer each of these questions, we’ll dive into the tools available in ArcGIS and some best practices for using them. We’ll progress from simply visualizing the locations of public transit stops and lines in a map, to mapping the transit system coverage, to mapping the frequency of service available, to modeling travel by public transit in a network, to calculating job accessibility.