Boston Transit Equity Explorer

4 equity dimensions × 142 bus routes × 730 census tracts · pick any pair to see the correlation

← v1 (OTP only)

X axis — neighborhood (ACS 2022)

Y axis — transit outcome

Highlight Justice40 "disadvantaged" tracts (CEJST v1.0)

Data: MBTA Reliability (MassDOT ArcGIS, 2025-09–2025-11) · MBTA GTFS Spring 2026 · ACS 2022 5-yr · LEHD LODES 2021 WAC · CEJST v1.0 (Wayback 2023-10-21). Job accessibility is a direct-ride proxy: sum of jobs in all tracts reachable by at least one route that also serves this tract, weighted by that route's OTP. Proper isochrone-based accessibility requires OpenTripPlanner / r5py — on the roadmap.