Blog

Enhancing Accessibility Analysis Beyond the Closest Destination   The East-West Gateway Council of Governments (EWG) serves as the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for the St. Louis region, representing nearly 3 million residents. Like many MPOs, EWG has long used accessibility mapping to understand how people reach key destinations. Traditionally, these maps measure travel time to the nearest single destination—for example, […]

Throughout 2021 we released a blog series surrounding the 20-minute cities concept where TRACC was used to analyse the accessibility to key destinations and public transport stops for 13 major cities. Join us as we take a trip down memory lane to determine which cities have since improved or dare I say worsened. As before, each analysis began by sourcing the data. […]

Whilst we were exhibiting in Barcelona at UITP in early June 2023, we spoke about whether Barcelona can be considered a 20-Minute City. We monitored Barcelona’s access level across 5, 15, 20, 30 and 45-minute catchments to get to; Public Transport Stops, the City Centre, Places of Interest, Social Areas and Wellbeing.   Which Areas Can You Get To in […]

OC Transpo, the municipal transit provider in Ottawa, Canada, is starting to use TRACC to assist with route and level of service planning. It is used by the Operational Planning team, responsible for Network Design, Service Reliability, and Scheduling. TRACC will be used to complement, and validate, existing methods for assessing the customer journey time, impact of transit network changes, […]

TRACC used to create accessibility indices in St Louis (USA) East-West Gateway Council of Governments (EWG) serves as the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) for St. Louis region which serves almost 3 million residents. Traditionally, an accessibility map would look at travel times between large Traffic Analysis Zones (TAZs). EWG wanted to enhance this type of analysis to see how many […]