Blocks with many people and few bus stops

What it does

Every year: the blocks of your city with the most residents and the fewest bus stops within 500 m, the 20 least served first, for the network plan, emailed and mapped.

In one sentence: Monthly on the 1st at 08:00, in Lima, count who lives around, sort them by population and keep the top 100, count the bus stops and bus stations within 500 m of each, sort them by nearby_count and keep the top 20, write a report with xMap AI, then show them on a map and email the list to you.

Why it is useful

Bus networks drift from where people live. This shows the most populated blocks left without a 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
• A city transport department
• A bus operator

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 240 minutes each time; it runs about 1 time a month, so it saves about 4 hours a month (an estimate). It is medium: 9 blocks.

The flow, block by block

1. On the 1st of every monthTrigger · ScheduleStarts the flow on a timetable.
2. My cityWhere · Area of interestSets where the flow looks: countries, cities or specific places, or areas you draw on a map.
3. People in every block of the cityxMap 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).
4. Best 100 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.
5. Bus stops within 500 mxMap 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.
6. The fewest nearby 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.
7. Write the network notexMap AI · xMap LLMTell the AI what to do in plain words.
8. Show them on a mapAction · Show on a mapShows the results as points on a map, with the area of interest.
9. 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.