Replica Use Case Library

Metro Analytics utilizes Replica to address pedestrian safety challenges. With Replica's granular data on walking behavior, Metro Analytics can analyze factors behind pedestrian-involved crashes and safety issues. Metro Analytics leverages this data to pinpoint high-risk areas and develop targeted safety strategies, including crosswalk redesigns and improved lighting. Replica's data helps to identify places where people walk less (or more) than expected, given surrounding demographics and land uses and to perform equity analyses that reveal where low-income and non-white populations face higher crash rates when walking.

The City of Overland Park, Kansas utilized Replica to create its Walkability Plan on College Boulevard Corridor. The goal of the plan is to create a strategy for creating a more walkable, engageing, and inviting place around the Convention Center and nearby amenitities. With Replica, the City was able to answer questions like, "Who is walking now? Who could be walking now? What does travel look like for visitors? For employees? What is the economic baseline of visits to the area today?"

More than a year into the Covid-19 pandemic, RTA needed to understand how daytime population counts were changing, by census tract, throughout the economic recovery. The agency needed data to inform financial and strategic planning, and specifically needed to investigate how changes in commuter habits could affect funding streams via sales taxes and rider fares. Using Replica, RTA was able to estimate the number of daily commuters into each census tract during different periods throughout the pandemic. Replica provided the number of people in each tract in the daytime hours, allowing RTA to find average daytime population statistics.

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