User Manual for Conveyal Analysis

This manual will help you use Conveyal Analysis to edit land-use and transportation scenarios, and evaluate them in terms of accessibility.

If you are using the version hosted by Conveyal at analysis.conveyal.com, log in with the instructions sent via e-mail, then select a region and project to use. Once you have selected a project, you can edit and analyze scenarios.

Most users of analysis.conveyal.com will already have a project prepared when they first log in. If you don’t see a region or a project, you’ll first need to prepare a baseline network or contact your support team.

Contents

Setup

• Baseline Network
  • Setting up a new region
    • Filtering OSM data
    • Cropping OSM data
  • Uploading a GTFS bundle
  • Creating a Project
• Opportunity Datasets
  • Uploading opportunity datasets
  • Avoiding common errors
  • Managing opportunity datasets
  • LODES import

Edit

• Overview of editing mode
• Basic example
• Usage suggestions and details
  • Toggling display of modifications on the map
  • Activating modifications in scenarios
  • Importing modifications
    • From another project
    • From Shapefiles
  • Manually edit raw modifications (beta)
• Modification details
  • Add trips
  • Adjust dwell time
  • Adjust frequency
  • Adjust speed
  • Remove stops
  • Remove trips
  • Reroute
• Timetables
  • Exact Times
  • Copying Timetables
• Phasing
• Exporting modifications

Analyze

• Overview of analysis mode
  • Isochrone map
  • Analysis panel
    • Charts of accessibility results
    • Downloading
    • Analysis options
    • Advanced settings
    • Errors and warnings
    • Starting a regional analysis
• Regional analysis view
  • Downloading regional results
  • Comparing regional analyses
  • Measuring aggregate accessibility

Learn More

• Developers Guide
  • Installing your own copy
  • Updating this manual
• Frequently Asked Questions
  • How does Conveyal Analysis calculate travel times?
  • Why are travel times longer than expected?
  • Who can see and edit my projects?
  • How long should it take to start a single-origin analysis?
  • How long should each regional analysis take?
  • How do I model corridor upgrades where a new trunk is added and existing services are converted to feeder routes?
  • What new features is Conveyal working on?
• Methodology
  • Spatial resolution
  • Accounting for variability
  • Time percentile
    • Example
• Glossary
  • GTFS
  • routing engine
  • transport network
  • trip pattern
  • trip
  • hop