The latest Conveyal routing engine is v7.2. This version:

• Makes bike and car access calculations much faster by skipping some unneeded computation
• Enables special analysis flags for custom or experimental features. Contact your support team for more information.
• Provides new options for CSV path results. With these options, you can specify whether results in CSV files should use ID or name values for GTFS routes and stops. You can also activate a new feedIds column to help parse results for bundles that contain multiple GTFS feeds.

Updated LODES job data

The latest Conveyal routing engine (v7.1) improves the calculation of dual access metrics. These metrics (such as the amount of time needed to reach a threshold of 200 thousand jobs) can now be requested directly in the user interface. This release also makes certain error messages easier to understand, and it makes the latest LODES job and workforce data available for regions in the United States via one-click import.

Smoother regional analysis view

We are pleased to roll out new analysis capabilities and smoother visualizations. This major release includes v7.0 of the R5 routing engine and...

• Enhances spatial dataset and regional analysis maps. The new maps include smooth scaling, rotation, querying access/density values at specific points, toggling layers on and off, and other features (thanks to vector maps and GPU acceleration).
• Adds time-to-nearest nth facility ("dual" accessibility) metrics as an experimental feature for CSV results (#884). Using this feature, you can now calculate additional metrics such as those used in the TransitCenter Equity Dashboard (the time to nearest hospital and time to third-nearest grocery store). See details here. We expect to support map results in an upcoming release; let us know what you think in the meantime!
• Provides more regular and detailed updates on regional analysis progress, helping keep cloud workers active when analyses are queued up (#874).
• Shifts travel time sampling points to better correspond with destination densities (#894). This change will alter results relative to past versions of the R5 routing engine. With related user interface changes, older versions of R5 will now result in slightly offset isochrones.
• Ensures that results are readily comparable within the web interface when regional analysis bounds are reused in a subsequent analysis (#897, #898)
• Improves shapefile upload and validation (#868, #872). Geojson uploads are coming soon.
• Improves GTFS upload and validation (#869, #870, #873).
• Makes default behavior of frequency entries more intuitive.
• Updates R5 to use the latest Java LTS version (21), ensuring security and stability updates over the long term.