Unlocking Mapbox Data: Enhancing People’s Daily Lives through Data-Driven Urban Planning

Case Study Mapbox Urban Development Transport

Cities around the globe confront significant challenges in providing infrastructure, essential services, and access to public transportation. In response, many urban areas are striving to enhance their infrastructure to improve the daily lives of their citizens.

Health Planning in the Philippines

Case Study Mapbox Health

Access to health services is essential. However, in the Philippines, the delivery of health services is highly fragmented across different levels of administration.

How to Leverage Data for Better Transport, Digital Connectivity, and Sustainable Development in the Amazon

Case Study Google Mapbox Meta OOkla Digital Development Transport

The World Bank Transport team used data from Google, Mapbox, Meta, and Ookla to identify infrastructure gaps in the Amazon areas of Brazil, Colombia and Peru.

Unleashing the Power of Data to Tackle Traffic Congestion and Promote Road Safety

Case Study Mapbox Mapillary Waze

As the global population is constantly increasing, building modern and sustainable cities to accommodate everyone is crucial. This is enshrined in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, in which the Sustainable Development Goal 11 aims to make cities more inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable.

Facilitating Inter-Municipal Cooperation in Lithuania to Provide Better Access to Healthcare and Long-Term Care Services to Citizens

Case Study Mapbox Health

Lithuania is experiencing rapid demographic change, with the population both aging and significantly shrinking in recent decades. This trend has put pressure on the provision of public services such as health care, especially at the municipal level, and is expected to continue in the coming years.

Studying Service Accessibility in Towns and Villages

Case Study Mapbox Urban Development

Settlements – cities, towns and villages – provide jobs and access to services for their own residents and other people living nearby.

Using Mobility Data to Improve Lives in Lima

Case Study Mapbox Veraset Waze Urban Development Transport

Improving traffic flow and enhancing road safety are critical to Lima which was ranked the fourth most congested metropolitan area in the world in 2022.

Assessing Traffic Congestion and Accessibility to Jobs Using Waze for Cities and Mapbox Data

Case Study Mapbox Waze Urban Development Transport

Traffic congestion and suburbanization are becoming increasingly significant factors affecting urban mobility and limiting access to jobs and opportunities in most mid-sized cities worldwide.

How Big Data and Machine Learning Can Strengthen Road Safety

Case Study Mapbox Mapillary Waze Transport

High-quality and reliable data is necessary to gain useful, actionable insights and enhance road safety conditions. However, collecting data on road safety through manual detection can be expensive, time-consuming, and complex.

A Data-Driven Framework to Support Bogota’s Barrios Vitales Project

Case Study Waze Unacast Mapbox Transport

A data-driven framework to support the design, implementation, and evaluation of a superblock model in Bogotá from a speed management perspective and inform street design alternatives in the urban space.

Optimizing Tourism Investments: Identifying Chokepoints and Underperforming Minor Roads in Sri Lanka

Mapbox Transport

Challenge Connected and maintained transportation infrastructure are critical to sustainable economic development, but most current estimation methods of road quality are labor, time, and cost intensive.

Analyzing Spatial Accessibility of Health Facilities in Indonesia and Philippines

Meta Mapbox Health Transport

Challenge: Indonesia and the Philippines are archipelagos, where geographic and administrative boundaries are similar. The collection of islands is home to different concentrations of ethnic, cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic groups, with an imbalanced distribution of health facilities and physicians.

Mapbox Releases a New Movement Dataset for Mobility Insights

Announcement Mapbox

Following the Development Data Partnership launch event at the World Bank-IMF Annual Meetings, Mapbox announced a new dataset on movement data for mobility insights.

Addressing COVID-19 through Public-Private Data Partnerships: Where Do We Put New Testing Facilities?

Meta Mapbox Health COVID-19

Background As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, the World Bank is ramping up its response to help countries around the world. The Bank recently announced $14 billion emergency support program, for which a key pillar is to help countries strengthen their capacity to monitor and respond to the spread of the virus.

Estimating Access to Employment Opportunities in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Mapbox Jobs and Development

Challenge: Poor transport facilities and infrastructure are a major hindrance to Bangladesh’s economic development. The road network in Dhaka is severely congested.