Transport Foundry

When planners quantitatively prioritize transit investments, they can use either accessibility measures or ridership measures, or some combination of the two. Accessibility calculators count how easily people are able to reach opportunities (e.g. jobs) by transit, and ridership models attempt to forecast likely passengers. Historically, agencies have used both methods for different tasks, though recent criticism of ridership models coupled with the availability of new web-based accessibility cal

Everyone who thinks about the future of transportation wants to know what will happen to our cities and our lives when autonomous vehicles arrive.

In October 2019, the family of Intermx companies acquired Transport Foundry as part of an effort to form a group of small businesses working on data-oriented measurements of people and their movements. With this merger came meticulously crafted plans for a brilliant future, but like the rest of the world, we had to make a hard pivot in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic.

To help cities plan for roads, transit, buildings, sidewalks, and future technologies, transportation and urban planners try to understand the movements of people between households and businesses today and in future scenarios.

When planners quantitatively prioritize transit investments, they can use either accessibility measures or ridership measures, or some combination of the two. Accessibility calculators count how easily people are able to reach opportunities (e.g. jobs) by transit, and ridership models attempt to forecast likely passengers. Historically, agencies have used both methods for different tasks, though recent criticism of ridership models coupled with the availability of new web-based accessibility cal

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