## Education & Research

### Educational subscription options

The Conveyal team collaborates with researchers and offers subscriptions for educational purposes. Please email [support@conveyal.com](mailto:support@conveyal.com) if any of these options fits your needs:

- For **instructional use** (e.g. classes not funded by external sponsors), Conveyal covers student account creation, computation costs, and access to one geographic region and baseline transit network. This subscription option assumes a local contact handles basic support requests and serves as the point of contact with the Conveyal team. We can also offer an in-depth training for instructors and the local support contact.
- For **research funded by external sponsors**, contact us about reduced-cost subscription options.
- For select **individual researchers and students** (e.g. working on unfunded thesis projects), the Conveyal team grants subscriptions through our [No-Cost use for Advocates, Researchers, and Students](/content/research/nocars/index.html) program. Alternative options include running our [open-source software](https://github.com/conveyal/r5) locally and using community support channels.

We’re eager to hear about additional cutting-edge applications, so we appreciate it when researchers send us a copy of any thesis, report, or paper produced using our software. We also request that such deliverables include acknowledgement with a link to [conveyal.com](/content/site-root.html) and cite our publications, when relevant and appropriate.

## Conveyal publications

The Conveyal team participates actively in the transportation research community, including through peer-reviewed publications:

- Kapatsila, Hindle, Stewart, and Grisé (2025): Counting in: A methodological framework for the accessibility assessment of on-demand transit, in [Journal of Public Transportation](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubtr.2025.100122)
- Stewart and Byrd (2022): Half-(head)way there: Comparing two methods to account for public transport waiting time in accessibility indicators, in [EPB Urban Analytics and City Science](https://doi.org/10.1177/23998083221137077) (open [preprint](https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/146736))
- Stewart and Byrd (2021): Interactive Access for Integrated Planning, chapter 17 in [Applications of Access](https://doi.org/10.25910/Z07C-KX08)
- Conway and Stewart (2019): Getting Charlie off the MTA: a multiobjective optimization method to account for cost constraints in public transit accessibility metrics, in [International Journal of GIS](https://doi.org/10.1080/13658816.2019.1605075) (open [preprint](https://files.indicatrix.org/Conway-Stewart-2019-Charlie-Fare-Constraints.pdf))
- Conway, Byrd, and van Eggermond (2018): Accounting for uncertainty and variation in accessibility metrics for public transport sketch planning, in [Journal of Transport and Land Use](https://doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2018.1074)
- Conway, Byrd, and van der Linden (2017): Evidence-Based Transit and Land Use Sketch Planning Using Interactive Accessibility Methods on Combined Schedule and Headway-Based Networks, in [Transportation Research Record](https://doi.org/10.3141/2653-06) (open [preprint](https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.54162))

## Other publications and open-source community use

Academic researchers leverage Conveyal's cutting-edge methods and open-source software (including via the independent r5r and r5py wrapper libraries) for a wide range of innovative research. Recent examples include:

- Santana Palacios (2025): [Unpacking data representation issues in distributional accessibility impact assessments: Lessons from Bogotá's urban gondola](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2025.104258)
- Larriva et al. (2023): [Impact of Quito's first metro line on the accessibility to urban opportunities](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2023.103548)
- Guo et al. (2023): [Evaluating Equity: A Method for Analyzing the Transit Accessibility of Affordable Housing Units](https://doi.org/10.1177/03611981231182706)
- Stewart and Zegras (2022): [Interactive mapping for public transit planning: Comparing accessibility and travel-time framings](https://doi.org/10.5198/jtlu.2022.1760)
- Santana Palacios and El-Geneidy (2022): [Cumulative versus Gravity-Based Accessibility Measures: Which One to Use?](https://doi.org/10.32866/001c.32444)
- Cui et al. (2022): [All ridership is local: Accessibility, competition, and stop-level determinants of daily bus boardings in Portland, Oregon](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtrangeo.2022.103294)
- Allen and Farber (2021): [Changes in Transit Accessibility to Food Banks in Toronto during COVID-19](https://doi.org/10.32866/001c.24072)
- Shen (2021): [Uneven Mobility: Injustice in Accessibility and Urban Experimentation](https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/130790); [SE Michigan Accessibility Explorer](https://accessmichigan.mit.edu/); MIT MST + TPP graduate and Conveyal [NoCARS](/content/research/nocars/index.html) awardee
- Fried et al. (2020): [Measuring the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Transport Target and Accessibility of Nairobi’s Matatus](https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198120914620)
- Lock, Bain, and Pettit (2020): [Towards the collaborative development of machine learning techniques in planning support systems – a Sydney example](https://doi.org/10.1177/2399808320939974)
- Buijs, Koch, and Dugundji (2020): [Using Neural Nets to Predict Transportation Mode Choice: An Amsterdam Case Study](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2020.03.015)
- Zegras et al. (2020): [Scaling Up Innovative Participatory Design for Public Transportation Planning: Lessons from Experiments in the Global South](https://doi.org/10.1177/0361198120940998)
- Meyer de Freitas et al. (2019): [Modelling intermodal travel in Switzerland: A recursive logit approach](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2018.11.009)