Strengthening Transit Through Community PartnershipsThe annual list of the best planning, design, and development websites, representing some of the top online resources for news, information, and research on the built environment.
AllTransit touts itself as the largest source of transit connectivity, access, and frequency data in the United States, but the most useful service provided by the site is how it populates and organizes that data into a useable format. Similar to WalkScore and ParkScore, users enter a location and AllTransit provides a score. The Planetizen office, located in Los Angeles above a Metro Purple Line stop and a high frequency rapid bus line, scores a 9.8. AllTransit informs us that our office has access to 9,363 transit trips per week within a half-mile, 17 transit routes within a half-mile, and 982,791 jobs within a half-hour transit trip. The AllTransit interface also produces a map of our transit shed and a "Comparison Snapshot" that shows just how much more transit access is available in our location compared to, for example, the rest of the country (a 3.1 AllTransit score), the rest of Los Angeles (an 8 AllTransit score), and the rest of the jurisdiction of the Southern California Association of Governments (a 5.7 AllTransit score). Thus, AllTransit reveals the details of a well-designed, well-operated transit system.