Pedestrian Activity & San Francisco's Hills
Do San Francisco's steep blocks (≥20% grade) actually keep people from walking through them? AOMA trip data says yes — pedestrian trips drop 60% above 20% grade even where transit is right there.
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Research Question
Method
San Francisco has hills — specifically, blocks with slopes of 20% or greater, which the city's planning department calls "significant." We wanted to know whether those slopes actually change how people walk, or whether transit access is doing all the work.
The test set: AOMA trip data (Activity-Oriented Mobile Application), cleaned in Python and joined against terrain slope rasters. Visualized in Kepler.gl.
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Data Cleaning
Before and after processing the AOMA trip dataset
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