How Datacutter Unlocks Access to Transit, Road, POI & Census Data

For anyone working in transportation planning, accessibility analysis, or urban development, finding the right data is often the biggest barrier to getting started. In the United States, transit schedules, road networks, points of interest, and census data exist, but they are scattered across hundreds of portals, formats, and update cycles. Datacutter brings all of these essential datasets together in one place, giving you immediate access to clean, ready-to-use data for any location across the country and internationally. Whether you’re modelling accessibility, identifying service gaps, or preparing evidence for funding bids, Datacutter helps you get the data you need in minutes.

Whilst more and more data is becoming openly available, identifying the correct data can be a long process. With multiple different data formats and multiple sources, making use of data such as census results can require collecting data in different formats from different sources and combining these in a third-party tool. Transit data can be even worse, with GTFS data being published for individual agencies rather than by area.

This is where Datacutter comes in. Datacutter allows you to search, draw or import a boundary and obtain the data you need in just a few clicks. Instead of having to hunt down multiple data sources and merge them into a single network, Datacutter allows you to get public transit, road, census and points of interest (POIs) all from the same source in minutes. This can massively streamline the project set up process and allow more detailed work to be done at the bidding stages of projects without significant time being invested.

Datacutter contains data for the whole of the US as well as road and POI data from OpenStreetMap internationally and additional datasets specific to Great Britain. This allows you to get the data you need from a single source, whichever country you are working on. This process is streamlined even further for users of TRACC, our transport accessibility software. Through the Datacutter integration you can get download the data directly into your project, without the need to download and import the data separately. By allowing you to select the area of interest, Datacutter also ensures you don’t end up with more data than you need, which can take up storage and lead to analysis taking longer than needed.

Try Datacutter for your next project and get the data you need quickly and easily. Get in touch to learn more.