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About the Pittsburgh Transit Propensity Tool

PTPT

This site hosts and documents the Pittsburgh Transit Propensity Tool (PTPT), a work that is inspired by and adapted from the Propensity to Cycle Tool [@lovelace2017propensity]. It is licensed under an MIT license: it is free to use, copy and modify.

Aim and Scope of the PTPT

The PTPT was designed to assist bike advocates, transport planners, and policy makers in the prioritization of advocacy, education, investments and infrastructure to reduce car dependency in the city of Pittsburgh. Car dependency here understood to mean, that a resident would be greatly inconvenienced in their daily life by not having a car in order to have a reasonable expectation of fulfilling their basic needs: getting their groceries, going to work and participating in social activities. The PTPT answers the question "How and where do people travel across Pittsburgh for these activities and where are the greatest opportunities to introduce new multi-modal transit interventions?" It is intended to supplement and inform the work outlined in Pittsburgh's bike+ plan [@lucas_2020] and inspire further transformational ideas about how to empower individuals to move around their city safely, economically, sustainably and quickly. Previous sources of data in this area include the American Community Survey and the makemytripcount survey, though neither capture the level of granularity in purpose and destination that this work does.

You can see the source code for this project on github and read more about the technical ideas behind this work in the Methods tab or on the xstreetvalidated blog.