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November 6th, 2014 Just dicking around with R a bit this afternoon…here is a tree map showing the number of weekday transit riders in each city neighborhood (area) compared to the size…

October 7th, 2012 I’ve always been kind of offended by the term ‘mass transit’. I can’t think of the last time I felt personally identified with something I would call a mass….

May 21st, 2014 I’m just beginning to play with the new, highly detailed ridership data I got from SORTA, and boy is it a treat. I’ll start here with a high-level overview…

April 5th, 2013 I’ve been toying for months with the idea of getting some t-shirts printed and I think it’s finally time to pull the trigger.  Help me decide which design to…

April 17th, 2014 This is a histogram showing the distance from every stop on every line in each direction to it’s nearest neighbor on the same line in the same direction. That’s the…

March 20th, 2015 Big news! I’ve just accepted an offer from the University of Toronto, where I’ll be starting this fall in the urban planning PhD program and studying there under the…

September 10th, 2013 Access is a pretty vague word. I don’t think I could succinctly define it and I suspect no one else could either as it regards discussions about transit and…

October 3rd, 2014 I’m being urged to get my act together regarding my masters thesis. I have a set of datasets I know I want to explore but I need to find…

May 15th, 2015 And here it is. I’m pretty proud to say that beside searching for the elusive schedule padding, and possibly finding some, I managed fit in a comment about the…

December 4th, 2014 My master’s thesis proposal, something I’ll be talking a lot about in the coming months: Background: The popular conflation of bus coach and railcar-based public transit lines with their…