Public transport analysis
How far is the bus?
Walking coverage of Cancún's public transport: how far people walk to a route, how many options there are within five minutes, which congested avenues the routes use and where registered origins come from.
In one sentenceShows who depends on a single route, or none, and which routes carry congested avenues.
Spanish original: ¿A cuánto está el camión?
How far is the bus?
In Cancún the bus is one of the main ways to get to work.
This atlas measures the walking distance to the nearest route, the options available, the congestion on the avenues they run along and the registered origins by neighbourhood.
Key findings
Three in four within five minutes
77% of the population lives 400 m or less on foot from a route; in subzones 8, 4 and 3-B most live farther, and behind gates coverage drops to 54%.
Close, but without options
43% of the population has one route or none within 400 m; 187,000 people depend on a single one.
Concentration on Tulum Avenue
33 of the 35 routes run along Tulum Avenue, where speed drops 39% in the slowest hour; 23% of route length runs on congested avenues.
Approach
Step 1
Snap the 35 bus routes to the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network and measure, for every block, the walking distance to the nearest route.
Step 2
Count distinct routes within 400 m to separate coverage from options.
Step 3
Cross route alignments with the congestion index of 16 avenues and with registered origins.
How to read it
- Without stops, any point on a route counts as access: real coverage is lower.
- The route layer does not include Kukulcán Boulevard.
- Origins have no documented definition and do not follow population: they are shown as counts.
Data
Bus routes
35 routes (both directions or loop), without stops.
Avenue congestion
Maximum and minimum speed on 16 avenues.
Origins by neighbourhood
Two counts of origins by neighbourhood (2023–2024), without documented definition.
OpenStreetMap
4,069 km pedestrian network.
What supports the method
- Walk21 / UITP (2024)Walking, waiting and transferring can be half the time of a public-transport trip (p. 3).
Paraphrased; page numbers refer to the PDF consulted. The library is in Spanish.
What you just saw
Network walking distance to each route and a count of options within 400 and 800 m.
What else this method can answer
- Where is coverage missing before frequency?
- Which route segments should be prioritised?
- How would coverage change with a new route?
In other places
Needs a pedestrian network and route alignments; stops and frequencies refine it.
Line of work
B · Accessibility, proximity and care →Do you have a similar question in your city?
Describe the problem
Next in Accessibility and mobilityOne hour by bus