We had a great group attend our CAT User App workshop with a mix of Charlottesville residents, City officials, and CAT employees. Lots of different neighborhoods were represented providing us with a variety of takeaways. Several residents shared troubles based on personal experience with our transit system as it relates to safety, accessibility, communication, and[…]
Last week, we sent out a newsletter to registrants of the Open Data Bootcamp. I included some great resources sent to us by ESRI that support the city’s new open data portal. I encouraged registrants to review the resources and start thinking about projects for the bootcamp. Since the bootcamp really only offers about 2.5[…]
Edit (11/2017): VDOT has added this data into its open data portal, as such this tool will no longer be supported. We’re thrilled to see VDOT move from its spreadsheet posting to open data. Traffic routinely tops lists of primary concerns among Central Virginia residents. It’s also a concern that came up repeatedly in our[…]
Today we celebrate National Bike to Work Week and Infrastructure Week with some visualizations of bike commuting in Charlottesville. This is a very simple visualization where we mash up Census ACS data on who bikes to work in Charlottesville with the city’s bike lane GIS maps. There are a variety of threads to pull on[…]
The US Census Bureau has published some interesting visualizations of where Charlottesville works (geographically) as of 2013. The source for the data and images is the U.S.Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies. The tool can be found here. Using the Charlottesville Core-Based Statistical Area (CBSA), we can see where Charlottesville works. The image below gives[…]
At long last, Charlottesville Area Transit will be getting an upgrade to its farebox system. The system, pictured right, is a dramatic upgrade to the current system. Kudos to the city for making this investment and to CAT for pushing for it. . This new technology, however, also brings up the idea of making data[…]