walkabilly/transit_coverage_sk

Working with Stat Can transit accessibility data

Developing Saskatoon or Saskatchewan Transit Coverage

We are using the Spatial Access Measures developed by Statistics Canada. From the website:

There are seven types of amenity categories within the Spatial Access Measures: primary and secondary educational facilities (EFs), postsecondary educational facilities (PSEFs), health care facilities (HFs), places of employment (EMPs), grocery stores (GSs), cultural and arts facilities (CAFs), and sports and recreational facilities (SRFs). For each amenity, there are four variants based on the transportation mode: access via public transit during peak hours, access via public transit during off-peak hours, access via cycling and access via walking.

Code

Code is available for download here

The dataset fields are as follows

Field name	Data type	Description
DBUID	int64	Uniquely identifies a dissemination block (composed of the 2-digit province/territory unique identifier followed by the 2-digit census division code, the 4-digit dissemination area code and the 3-digit dissemination block code).
CSDUID	int64	Uniquely identifies a census subdivision (composed of the 2-digit province/territory unique identifier followed by the 2-digit census division code and the 3-digit census subdivision code).
CSDNAME	object	Census subdivision name.
CMAUID	int64	Uniquely identifies a census metropolitan area/census agglomeration.
CMANAME	object	Census metropolitan area or census agglomeration name.
PRUID	int64	Uniquely identifies a province or territory.
PRCODE	object	Province or territory code.
acs_idx_hf	float64	Normalised value of a dissemination block's access to health care facilities.
acs_idx_emp	float64	Normalised value of a dissemination block's access to employment.
acs_idx_srf	float64	Normalised value of a dissemination block's access to sports and recreation facilities.
acs_idx_psef	float64	Normalised value of a dissemination block's access to post-secondary education facilities.
acs_idx_ef	float64	Normalised value of a dissemination block's access to primary and secondary education facilities.
acs_idx_caf	float64	Normalised value of a dissemination block's access to cultural and arts facilities.
acs_lvl_gs-1	float64	Time in minutes to reach the closest grocery store.
acs_lvl_gs-3	float64	Time in minutes to reach the 3rd closest grocery store.
acs_lvl_gs-5	float64	Time in minutes to reach the 5th closest grocery store.