Urban Analyst

Urban Analyst is a platform for interactive visualisation and comparison of cities, including transport systems, measures of accessibility, and socio-demographic conditions. There are four main ways to examine and compare cities:

Summarise ↴

Read a summary of analyses for any chosen city. The Summary page also identifies the best target city for each city, and summarises the ways by which that city could best improve to become more like the target city.

Compare ↴

Compare statistics for every UA city.

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Map ↴

View interactive maps of all cities analysed to date.

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Transform ↴

Transform any city to be like any other

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How does it work?

Results for each city involve billions of routing calculations through street networks and public transport systems. These are calculated using Urban Analyst's own open-source software described in the documentation pages . These enormous numbers of calculations enable Urban Analyst to provide uniquely powerful insights into how people move throughout cities.

How can cities be added?

Please open an issue on the GitHub repository of this site requesting the addition of a particular city.