NEW FERRY ROUTES TO NYC

PRIYANKA VERMA
 GOAL
Provide commuters from counties outside of NYC with one stop
water- transportation to Manhattan by finding sites in region
suitable for developing ferry terminals.
DATA
1. Census Transportation Planning Package(CTPP)
2. USGS Land Parcels
3. USDOT Highways
4. Long Island Rail Road Stops
5. New Jersey Transit Stops
6. Metro North Stops
CRITERIA
1. Number of commuters in the county
2. Availability of barren land type for development
3. Site must be at least 0.5 Km away from existing transit systems in region
4. Within 2 KM of a major Highway
 FINDING COUNTIES WITH MOST
COMMUTERS
• Using PostGreSQL, find the counties with most commuters to Manhattan
• First 5 counties are NYC Boroughs, excluded them
• Looked at counties 6-8 based on number of commuters
HUDSON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY

Commuters 649
Existing Transit NJ Transit
NASSAU COUNTY, NEW YORK

Commuters 701
Existing Transit LIRR
WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW YORK

Commuters 590
Existing Transit Metro North
SITE EVALUATION PROCESS WITH QGIS
Extracted all the Barren Land features
-500M Buffer around existing transit stops
-1.6KM Buffer around Highways
SITE EVALUATION PROCESS WITH POSTGIS
-Organized all files in Database
-Weighed proximity to Highways higher than distance from Transit

-Queried data with PostGIS functions to find sites that fit both criteria
First: Barren land and highways
Second: Transit and barren land results from first query
SITE SELECTION
-Mapped resulting sites on QGIS
-Found the ones located near water
-Created a choropleth layer of commuters by Census Tract for surrounding
region
-Chose the best fitting site
-Digitized point path from site to a port in Manhattan
VISUALIZING WITH CARTODB
-Created geoJSON’s for the digitized layer
-Used MakeLine function to join points to create a ferry route
-Calculated statistics for popup using QGIS.

Final Map: https://priyankaa.cartodb.com/viz/eba1edd4-f45c-11e4-

b3b2-0e0c41326911/public_map