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Transportation Data Tools #4: Location Affordability Index

Since transportation is so intertwined with other aspects of urban life – housing, land use, and technology, for example – it is only fitting that we should look beyond purely transportation agencies for useful data. Enter the Location Affordability Index, a dataset developed by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that combines transportationContinue reading “Transportation Data Tools #4: Location Affordability Index”

Transportation Data Tools #1: OnTheMap

Finding reliable, robust, and interesting data is the first step to any data analysis project, so I thought I’d spent a few posts highlighting some of my favorite data sources out there. One tool I find very underrated in the transportation planning world is the US Census Bureau Center for Economic Studies’ Longitudinal Employer-Household DynamicsContinue reading “Transportation Data Tools #1: OnTheMap”