Spatial Analysis of AOMA-recorded Pedestrian Activity and San Francisco’s Hills

Fall 2022
Future Mobility Workshop
Columbia GSAPP
San Francisco’s topography holds immense influence in the city’s built environment, to an extent that the city’s planning department enforces specific regulations in areas with “significant” incline slopes of 20% or greater.  With the sample activity-oriented mobile application (AOMA) trip dataset provided, our research question aims to understand:


“How does San Francisco’s terrain—specifically areas of significant incline—correlate to the pedestrian behavior and density of trips made by the users sampled by the AOMA data?”



Final Output: Comparison of Initial Dataset (left) and Cleaned Dataset (right)


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Project by Kirthi Balakrishnan & Lizzie Lee
Course by Professor Anthony Vanky