Accessibility analysis is a GIS-based method used to understand how easy it is to reach desired services, such as healthcare, from a particular location.
Cadence makes accessibility analysis easy, enabling everyone to visualise and understand the connectivity patterns that affect quality of life.
Bringing 20-minute neighbourhoods to life
Cadence Site Analysis transforms complex accessibility data into actionable insights at your fingertips.
As the only GIS system that lets you create custom accessibility metrics with simple drag-and-drop functionality, Cadence makes it effortless to understand sustainability and quality of life within places.
How it works
Spatial accessibility analysis is commonly used to help understand how easy or difficult it is to reach certain destinations from a starting point. For example, businesses may want to investigate how easy it is for citizens to access retail locations, while planners may want to understand access to education or health services within a place.
Cadence provides easy-to-use analysis to enable you to understand key accessibility questions. Cadence’s Site Analysis feature enables you to create custom metrics to understand access to destinations such as healthcare, education, open spaces, community facilities, retail and many others. Designed on the principles of 20-minute neighbourhoods, the Site Analysis tool enables you to develop holistic understanding of how places function.
Just select the key services you want to analyse access to, select the transport modes you’re interested in, and you’re good to go. Cadence will instantly visualise your bespoke analysis on the map.
Fine-tune the appearance with intuitive visual controls to adjust colours, transparency, and styles, to match your project needs.
Enhance your analysis by adding contextual layers such as population density, points of interest, or your own custom datasets.
When your maps are ready, publish them with a single click to seamlessly collaborate with colleagues and stakeholders.
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Find out why users love Cadence…
“We held a stakeholder workshop and used the accessibility map in real time to help stakeholders start to understand different site options. At the end of the workshop everyone was so complimentary about how interactive it was and how we’d been able to get the data together. I was hoping we could keep Cadence as our own little secret, but unfortunately the team asked for a testimonial!”
David, Masterplanning Consultant
“20-minute neighbourhoods is a nice idea, but without any way to visualise it it’s almost impossible to articulate to other planners. Now with Cadence I can actually show people what it means and move the conversation on to the things that will actually make a difference.”
Sarah, Active Travel Planner
“Accessibility analysis is something I’ve always wanted to do, but in other systems it’s so complex I’ve never quite got it to work. What’s amazing about Cadence is how you can make the changes you want and it instantly updates, and how good it looks. Such a clever feature.”
John, Data Scientist
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