Introducing Osmix, our new high-performance OpenStreetMap toolkit for TypeScript that can read, query, merge, and transform OSM PBFs in the browser Try it for yourself at osmix.dev

We're sharing a new browser-first toolkit for working with #OpenStreetMap tomorrow afternoon. Even if you missed the registration for #OpenThePaths 2026, stay tuned for more details and recordings of the sessions.

"Access-density mismatch" helps identify "where transport systems fall short of or exceed what would be expected given existing residential density" www.nature.com/articles/s44...

We introduce *transportation accessibility*—long central in planning—into legal analysis of land use & transport. Mobility-based strategies (just one more lane, bro) create sprawl, eroding proximity & overall access. We start from a goal of access and work back. Abundance requires this shift.

The Conveyal team is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with EBP to collaborate on access to opportunities analysis, scenario planning, and decision support for metropolitan planning and development. Stay tuned for more news this week! See our tinyurl.com/conveyal-newsletter and blog:

AFC: AUTOMATIC FARE COLLECTION AND YOU (1969) | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UqO9tnRlcY

Uncertainty in Cell-Phone Generated Bike and Pedestrian Volumes

Underway at the inaugural Modeling Mobility conference, which Conveyal is glad to help sponsor #MoMo2025 modelingmobility.org

Any sort of shot we have at making transportation in the US better requires a fundamental shift in how the profession works with transportation demand modeling

🚨 Transportation for the Abundant Society 🚨 New draft paper (w/ Jonathan Levine) now up. "Abundance" needs to grapple with transportation beyond megaprojects and institutions beyond zoning. We propose anchoring planning metrics in *access*, not speed of travel. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Starting soon: Sidewalk Data for Detailed First-/Last-Mile Access Analysis webinar (hosted by @innovativedot.bsky.social) Sign up to learn about new infrastructure for sidewalk data as well as emerging analysis possibilities: uwmadison.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

In our research, we first set out to theorize the potential relationships between transportation & gentrification. Transport investments could result in increased access & desirability, and this, in turn, could increase home values. This could, in theory, result in displacement of marginalized ppl.

Highlights from our latest newsletter: 🏆 R5 wins an award 📢 New @innovativedot.bsky.social webinar next week: uwmadison.zoom.us/webinar/regi... ✈ We're heading to Modeling Mobility 2025 (modelingmobility.org) 🌏 Work in Australia and Latin America Read more and subscribe: mailchi.mp/0eab489e7172...

Now at blog.conveyal.com 📢: Guest post from Professor Daniel Orellana, showing how to measure access gaps between socioeconomic groups as well as the impact of Quito's first Metro line medium.com/conveyal-blo...

Interesting-looking new study finding that "mode shift alone represents only 1/5th of the potential GHG benefits of increasing active transportation in a way that also reduces trip lengths through destination changes" doi.org/10.1016/j.tr...

You may have heard of Bicycle Level of Traffic Stress Now, help researchers develop Pedestrian Level of Traffic Stress by taking this survey Good pictures (and video) of intersections and straightforward questions, should take you 5-20 minutes depending on how thorough you are

Great new longitudinal research from Drs. Nick Ferenchak and Wes Marshall, showing the value of protected bike lanes (over single stripes, sharrows, or nothing) in increasing rates of cycle commuting. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Have you ever wondered how to integrate on-demand transit options into detailed assessments of access to opportunities? Check out this new analysis of Edmonton's combined bus network redesign and expansion of on-demand transit zones. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

FHWA’s “Bike and Ped Planning, Program, and Project Development Guidance” is an invaluable resource IMHO. It tells the policy “story” of exactly where/how walking and biking projects are accommodated within the laws, regs, and policies around the Federal transpo. www.fhwa.dot.gov/environment/...

"... tracing how accessibility rose to prominence and became the guiding principle for measuring transport and land-use outcomes."

Who's got examples of transit agencies doing really good station area planning? Looking at station and entrance/egress design, multimodal integration, bike and pedestrian access, and land use.

More highways --> More driving --> More emissions UCLA researchers: "Across the U.S., new and widened freeways accounted for 55% of the observed increase in freeway driving [from 2000 to 2019]." escholarship.org/content/qt1x...

Over the last year, Conveyal worked with leading-edge agencies and practitioners around the world to embed access measures in transport decision-making and policy. We're grateful for all of our collaborators and partners who are advancing more sustainable transport. More: mailchi.mp/61a6c6070c64...

What transit agencies are on here? (including mirrors) bsky.app/profile/vyks...

Just published: monthly newsletter of AP090 (the @nasemtrb.bsky.social Committee on Transit Data) Newsletter copies and more info are at the committee's website: www.trb-transit-data.org Even better, sign up as a friend of the committee at mytrb.org to receive monthly newsletters and announcements

A new starter pack: go.bsky.app/LaeKYA2 . Let me know who else belongs in the comments.

Here is a starter pack for transportation / mobility researchers if you want to follow academic research news or find your old network from Twitter. I'm still adding more so recommendations are very welcome! go.bsky.app/33kwFxs #transport #mobility

I print and sell maps, too! The "Transit Maps" collection has some stunning maps, but none more so than this astounding, almost psychedelic, isochrone map of the time taken to travel from Paris to just about everywhere else in France by rail in 1882. transitmap.net/store/produc...

How are leading agencies implementing consistent, comprehensive access to destinations and transportation equity metrics? Find out at this webinar today — starting at noon US Eastern Time, register here: events.gcc.teams.microsoft.com/event/b03fc5...

Newly published study measures access to food statewide in Massachusetts doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

Isochrone map: Los Angeles, 1941 From the County of Los Angeles Regional Planning District Master Plan of Highways via LA Metro Library metroprimaryresources.info/this-date-in...

Lots of ways to present this info, but it's exciting for me since it's the first time we've really combined the @conveyal.com path routing feature and our Caltrans/Cal-ITP GTFS data warehouse!

CYBERNETICA (1972)

"We find that, since their invention, cars and automobility have killed 60–80 million people and injured at least 2 billion. Currently, 1 in 34 deaths are caused by automobility." Powerful new paper in JTG: doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...

THE SIGNAL ENGINEERS (1962)

Conveyal makes it easy to edit scenarios and generate isochrones ✅ The real power of our platform is running massive access calculations regionwide (effectively millions of isochrones in parallel with our cloud compute cluster 🚀) For examples, see blog.conveyal.com, esp. medium.com/conveyal-blo...

Detailed multimodal isochrones for the Sepulveda Transit Corridor project in LA? 👀 These ones look familiar! "The varying shades of blue reflect differences between the alternatives..." 🚇 vs. 🚝 options provide notably different levels of access.