Equity Index of Mobility Need for Monroe County, NY
This analysis was created while I worked in the Service Planning Department at Regional Transit Service (RTS) in Rochester, New York in the summer of 2020. It is heavily influenced by a similar analysis done by Pittsburgh Regional Transit (then the Port Authority of Allegheny County) in 2015 and updated in 2019.
It combines various demographic factors that make a person likelier to use public transit into a composite index. This is then used to evaluate existing service, proposed service (this analysis was undertaken ahead of the launch of the Reimagine RTS total system redesign project in May 2021), and identify areas that have potentially high levels of need but low levels of delivered service, so they may be prioritized for future investments in service expansion.
This was originally created using ArcGIS Desktop and Microsoft Excel.