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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 […]

TRACC Training Gone Digital I think we can all agree that many things have changed this year as part of the “new normal”. One of the more recent changes that we’ve applied to how we work at Basemap is the way we provide training for our TRACC users.   Having led the TRACC training courses over the last few years, […]

How TRACC works   TRACC uses its powerful algorithms to analyze public transit, highway and census data to determine the travel time from many origins to many destinations, to calculate how many people can travel. For example, from house A to house B, as the crow flies would be 1 mile, or a 20-minute walk. When we consider where people […]