Bus stops that need shade shelters first
Bus stops ranked for shade shelters by people and heat.
What it does
Every year: bus stops in the most populated, hottest parts of your city, ranked by xMap AI for shade shelter upgrades, emailed and mapped.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Bangkok, find bus stops in the area, count who lives around, get the 7-day weather forecast, score and rank them with xMap AI, sort them by fit score and keep the top 25, then show them on a map and email the list to you.
Why it is useful
Shade at a stop matters most where many people wait in the heat. This ranks the stops.
Who it is for
Public transport & transit. Transit agencies, bus and rail operators and mobility planners placing stops, running services around disruptions and reaching riders. Every use case for public transport
Best use cases
- A transit agency
- A city heat office
- A street furniture company
What each run gives you
- A map
- An email
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 90 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 2 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 9 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
- Bus stopsxMap data · Nearby placesPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
- Who lives aroundxMap data · DemographicsWho lives in an area: the number of residents, men and women, and nine age groups, from xMap’s population grid (hexagons of about 0.1 km², about 100 countries).
- Forecast for 7 daysxMap data · Weather forecastThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
- Score each stop with xMap AIxMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Best 25 firstLogic · Sort and limitPuts the items in order, and can keep only the first ones: the 10 best rated, the 20 nearest, the highest fit scores.
- Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
- Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- Build your first flow in ten minutes: From a blank page to a flow that emails you a ranked list every morning.
- Ask the map a question: How many of a kind of place, how many people for each, and where the gaps are, answered on the spot.
- Count what is around each of your places: Competitors, footfall magnets or services within a distance of each site.
- Compare sites side by side: Two or three spots measured the same way, one column each, the best of every row marked and the best site and why.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- Site selection: Choosing where to open a store, branch, clinic or facility.
- How to score candidate store sites: Compare sites on residents, competitors and neighbours, with an AI score and a reason.
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- Blocks with many people and few bus stops: Blocks with many people and few bus stops, for the network plan.
- Schools with many children and few bus stops: Schools with many children and few stops, for school bus routes.
- Park and ride sites at the edge of the city: Stations scored as park and ride sites.
- Malls far from stations, for shuttle partnerships: Malls far from stations, offered a shared shuttle.