Who and what is within a 15-minute walk of a planned station
The people, offices and schools within a 15-minute walk of a planned station.
What it does
Every month: the area people can walk to within 15 minutes of a planned station (drawn on the streets), how many people live in it, and the offices, schools and shopping centres inside it, in a ridership note by xMap AI for the planning team, emailed and mapped.
In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, take the area within 15 minutes on foot of Planned station, count who lives around, find corporate offices, schools and shopping malls in the area, write a report with xMap AI, then email the list to you and show them on a map.
Why it is useful
A station is used by the people who can walk to it. Drawing the real walking area and counting who is inside makes the case for the stop.
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 planning a line
- A city planning team
- A developer near a new station
What each run gives you
- An email
- A map
The time it saves
Monthly on the 1st at 08:00. Doing the same work by hand takes about 120 minutes each time, so it saves about 2 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 7 blocks.
The flow, block by block
- On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
- 15 minutes on foot of the planned stationWhere · Travel areaThe area you can reach within a travel time (15 minutes by car) or a distance by road (10 km), on foot, by bike or by car, from each incoming place or from places you pick.
- People in the walking areaxMap 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).
- Offices, schools and shops in the areaxMap 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.
- Write the ridership notexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
- Email me the listAction · EmailSends one email per run with all the items, or one email per item.
- Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
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
- 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.
- An instant site report of any spot: Paused for now while xMap improves the data behind it. Reports already made still open.
- 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.
- Location intelligence: Using where things are, and what is around them, to make business decisions.
- Drive time vs radius: Two ways to draw the area around a site, and when each is good enough.
- Site selection: Choosing where to open a store, branch, clinic or facility.
More for Public transport & transit
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- Where new cycle lanes would be used most: Blocks ranked for new cycle lanes by young adults and cycling signs.
- 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.