statistics

In Manhattan, Shopping and Driving Don't Mix

The New York City Department of Transportation's yearly statistical smorgasbord adds a new tool: neighborhood travel profiles showing how people arrived in eight neighborhoods. In many of them, the number of drivers was in the single digits.

3 May 2011 - 9:00am

Streetsblog

Forget Cities - It's Regions and Neighborhoods That Matter

When it comes to economics, statistics, demographics, development, and our daily actions, city lines don't count for much - neighborhoods and regions are where things happen, says Kaid Benfield.

2 November 2010 - 2:00pm

Sustainable Cities Collective

Why the Census Needs Adjustment

The Census is going to be wrong, according to this column from The Washington Post. Statistical adjustments help get undercounts closer to reality, but many opponents prevent their use.

5 May 2010 - 6:00am

The Washington Post

Stats Systems to See Upgrade in Federal Budget

This post from The New Republic explains how the federal budget includes plans to upgrade some of the varied parts that track statistics in the country.

24 April 2010 - 7:00am

The New Republic

Michael Lewyn

Fun with transportation statistics

Tue, 11/11/2008 - 08:04

A few days ago, I was looking at a regional planning document and saw something startling: an assertion that transit ridership in my region has been going down. Since transit ridership has been going up nationwide, I smelled a rat.

After digging around through a big pile of statistics, I realized that there are so many different ways of measuring transit ridership that one can easily prove either that ridership is going up or that ridership is going down. Some possible measurements include:

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