Comparing Rail Transit in Seattle, WA and Singapore

Crystal Tan, Geography

For one of the undergraduate geography courses I took in the department (GEOG 317), I created a final project analyzing rail transit in Seattle and compared it to rail transit in Singapore. In this final project, I created some static visualizations using R and interactive webmaps using ArcGIS Pro. These visualizations, along with the research, methodology, and analysis were then published in an ArcGIS StoryMap. To compare the two rail transit systems, I measured each rail system's centrality using network analysis and accessibility using area and buffer analysis. Using network analysis, I described the centrality of each rail system by counting nodes and edges along with looking at connectivity. Using buffer analysis, I recorded the area within 0.5 miles from each rail station and determined how accessible these stations were by looking at how many pharmacies are within the 0.5 mile buffers. Link to ArcGIS StoryMap: https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/15d18c9f15554083963b7bbe8fad52c7