Recommendation App for Points of Interest (POIs) In Montreal, Canada

This was a short academic project in which I collaborated with other two students for the Geospatial Data Science master’s course at IT University of Copenhagen. You can check out the app here. Be aware that it may take a while to load. You can check out the repo here. You can check out the final paper here.

Urban planning and sustainability play a key role in the way citizens interact with a city and its amenities. Following the concept of the 15-minute city, we aim to provide a visual, interactive app that displays the accessibility within 15 minutes to different amenities using diverse transportation methods in the city of Montreal, Canada, neighbourhood by neighbourhood.

The motivation is to understand the accessibility differences in terms of time and distance to different key amenities within Montreal. To do so, the app provides a visual display of the amenities’ distribution per neighbourhood, as well as the estimated time arrivals (ETAs) using different transportation methods: walking, cycling and driving.

We hope our work will serve not only users who want to move around the city, but also those who want to improve accessibility and mobility within Montreal and other cities.