Urban Analyst: open-source, hyper-efficient urban analysis sofware

Urban Analyst (UA) is a platform that aims to help cities learn from other cities. It enables interactive visualisation and comparison of cities, including transport systems, measures of accessibility, and socio-demographic conditions. UA includes detailed interactive spatial maps of each city, charts comparing all cities, and analyses of how cities can be transformed to become more like other cities.

What can Urban Analyst bring to a DUT proposal?

• A full suite of open-source urban analysis software able to be adapted to any needs.

• Extremely high-resolution spatial detail (main site shows aggregate data, with underlying spatial scale shown in this demonstration site).

• All analyses strictly privacy-preserving, local-only, and use globally-available data sources like Open Street Map.

• A huge array of software able to be adapted for almost any purpose.

• Analyses of interactions between variables, such as relationships between transport provision and social inequality.

What can Urban Analyst bring to the DUT 15mC Topic 2: Align ambitions for mobility transitions across sectors pathway?

• Location analyses, including analyses of all possible travel patterns from all locations.

• Travel mode densities measured along every street segment, and reflecting arbitrary and customizable journey purposes.

What can Urban Analyst bring to the DUT 15mC Topic 3: Nurture neighbourhood economies pathway?

• Identification and analyses of structurally similar neighbourhoods from any city across the world.

• Custom software to identify natural neighbourhood geometries based on movement data.

• Hierarchical analyses of neighbourhood structure both within and between cities, including through analyses of dynamic movement patterns.

• Comparisons within and between cities on neighbourhood-level relationships between all Urban Analyst variables, such as transport accessibility and socio-economic disadvantage.