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GPS mobility data show NYC transit system consistently favors white neighborhoods over Black and Hispanic ones
- May 19, 2026 at 4:00 PM
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A study of 66 million GPS mobility records shows that racial minorities are not as well served by transit as white New Yorkers. Publishing in PNAS Nexus, Yong Li and colleagues mapped the number of job sites, banks, health care facilities, parks, and schools that could be reached in an hour or less via buses and trains from a particular neighborhood.
Originally published at Phys.org