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Transit Quality & Equity

Visualizing urban mobility

“Transit Quality & Equity” was created as a response to Urban Data Challenge, an international open data competition that aimed to explore urban data sets through data visualization. I chose to address this theme by looking at the question from the lens of equity, i.e. to see how well transit systems serve diverse populations in a city. To accomplish this, I layered economic and demographic data on top of transit data, which allows the users to draw relationships between transit quality and equity.

After the competition, I continued to expand the project. In one of my courses, I used it as a case study in investigating the role that data visualization could play in city planning.

The project has been featured on Citylab and Fast Company Design.


Project summary
Project summary
Surfacing transit performance data
Surfacing transit performance data
Adding a layer of economic data as indicators of equity
Adding a layer of economic data as indicators of equity
Same visualization, different city
Same visualization, different city
Same visualization, different city (with economic data turned off)
Same visualization, different city (with economic data turned off)
Investigating the role of data visualization in city planning
Investigating the role of data visualization in city planning