About Ives Street
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.
