Last week, we officialy launched the Access to Opportunities Project. In this first edition of the project (2019) we present accessibility estimates by active transport modes (walking and cycling) for the 20 largest cities in the Brazil, and by public transport for 7 major cities (São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Recife, Fortaleza, Porto Alegre e Curitiba).
At the occasion of the event, we launched the website of the project where one can find:
- a published report analyzing inequalities in access to opportunities in Brazil's largest cities (report only available in Portuguese)
- an interactive map to explore the results
- the data outputs of the project
- the computational code used to process, analyze and visualize the data
Here is a quick demo of the interactive map but please go ahead and try it for yourself. The app scales fairly well despite the massive amount of data, thanks to Kauê Braga's work using in R to create a mapdeck application in shiny.
