About Ives Street

Helping you understand your transportation system.

The best measure of a transportation system is how well it connects people to opportunities. People don’t use transportation for its own sake, they travel because they have somewhere to go. A guiding goal of any transportation system should be to make that travel more convenient. To maximize people’s ability to reach destinations. To maximize freedom.

Conventional approaches don’t get to the heart of the matter. Traditional techniques for evaluating transportation measure congestion on roads or ridership on public transport. Low congestion or high ridership aren’t always a sign of convenient travel: Sometimes high ridership means that people don’t have better options, sometimes low congestion means that there’s nothing worth driving to.

Our Capabilities

Ives Street’s Connectome approach provides unique insight. We give a comprehensive measurement of travel convenience for every individual in a large region. With a user-choice step at the trip level, the Connectome approach accounts for variations in income and physical ability among the population; it includes driving, public transport, walking, and bicycling; and it measures access not only to jobs but to all kinds of desirable destinations. We can use this model to help you understand your community as it exists today. And we can help you identify which change would give the biggest improvement to convenient travel per dollar spent. We don’t just measure speed, but how speed fits into the bigger picture.

Our specialties include:

  • Project-prioritization and performance metric support for funding authorities.
  • Analytical transportation planning for strategic plans or individual projects.
  • Impact analysis of transportation plans and projects.



      We can help you understand your city more clearly.

Services

Cost-Benefit Analysis

Too many decisions in transportation planning are made on the basis of politics rather than evidence. They don’t have to be. Ives Street’s Connectome analysis can empower you by calculating the true costs and benefits of a transportation project. With worldwide experience, we quantify travel convenience, road safety, air pollution, public health, and whatever else matters to you.

Custom Model Calibration

All cities are different. It’s not a matter of copying and pasting code: when we work with your city to customize the Connectome model, we will spend an extended period of in-person engagement ensuring that it is calibrated to reflect local conditions, customs, and perceptions. And we’ll work closely with your team to ensure that they’re ready to use the model independently to assess the costs and benefits of future projects your city might consider.

Strategic Planning

City planning is both a science and an art. Software may help with analysis, but strategic vision requires a human touch. Old-fashioned transportation planners will fly in for a week and give the same routine advice on every job. We will stay in your city for months, experiencing transportation on the ground, and work with your team and other stakeholders to find a long-term transportation strategy that will help your city meet its goals.

Portfolio

Ives Street works around the world.

Ives Street works on the Atlas of Sustainable Urban Transport, a global database of sustainable mobility

The Atlas of Sustainable City Transport

The world's most complete database of indicators of sustainable transportation.

Completed while employed as Data Science Manager at ITDP

Ives Street used Urban Connectome access-to-destinations modeling to estimate the impacts of congestion pricing

Road Pricing Analysis

An assessment of potential road pricing in Washington DC, using the Urban Connectome.

We evaluated the impacts of bicycle lanes for emissions, economic benefits, and public health

Bicycle Lanes Impact Study

The first-ever empirical study of the impacts of bicycle lane networks in middle-income countries, focused on Bogotá and Guangzhou.

Completed while employed as Data Science Manager at ITDP

Team

D. Taylor Reich

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Principal

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A global expert in data analytics for transportation, Taylor Reich is the original creator of the Connectome tool and a leader in the operationalization of access metrics. They have led international projects on a wide variety of topics at the intersection of transportation planning and data, managing teams of diverse technical experts across continents. Their work has informed national decisionmaking in the USA, India, and Mexico, and has received media attention from outlets in over 20 countries, including the Guardian and the BBC. Taylor also sits on the Board of Directors of MobilityData, the international data standards organization for public and shared mobility.

Kauê Braga

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Data Science Consultant

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Kauê Braga is a geospatial specialist with extensive experience in translating cutting-edge transportation analytics into clear visual analysis. His portfolio includes novel analytic approaches, large data pipelines, and visualization platforms for transportation and urban planning. Kauê has previously led major projects for international research collaborations and civic technology initiatives, while publishing new literature in access measurements. At Ives Street, Kauê contributes to the development of the Connectome model and helps calibrate it to the specific needs of individual cities.

Adam Davidson, Ph.D.

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Senior Research Collaborator

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Adam Davidson, Ph.D., is an urban systems and mobility strategist with expertise in governance, data, and civic innovation. An urban planner and geographer by training, he helps public institutions adapt to technological and environmental disruption. His work bridges sustainable mobility, climate policy, and organizational change—connecting strategy to delivery through clear, implementable pathways. At Ives Street, Adam contributes research design, policy analysis, and governance insight to ensure Connectome-based work aligns with how cities make decisions and create durable change.

Contact

Contact us by email at [email protected]