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# transportation_access

# transportation_access

Commute and access quality around the property: walkability, highway access, and transit availability.

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Transportation and commute quality including walkability, highway access, and overall commute assessment.
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The question it answers

## What is this house, physically?

The feature vector, taken from the source of record rather than from a listing agent. Assessor and parcel records are authoritative; listing fields are agent-entered, inconsistent between markets, and absent entirely for a property that was never listed.

Other classes answering this question

## Why it matters

Access is a location premium whose sign varies by market. A highway interchange nearby is a premium in one metro and a discount in another, so the class records the measurements rather than a single score with the weighting already applied.

## In practice

Walkability, highway proximity and transit availability are held separately because they are separately available. A jurisdiction with no transit has a genuine absence rather than a low score, and collapsing the three into one number makes the two indistinguishable.

## Properties

| Property | Type | Definition |
| --- | --- | --- |
| `source_http_request` | `object` | <!--source:property-registry-->HTTP request configuration for retrieving this data.<!--/source--> |
| `request_identifier` | `string | null` | <!--source:property-registry-->Identifier value that should be substituted into the source HTTP request to retrieve this specific data.<!--/source--> |
| `commute_quality` | `string | null` | <!--source:property-registry-->Overall commute quality assessment. `Excellent``Great``Good``Fair``Poor`<!--/source--> |
| `walkability_score` | `number` | <!--source:property-registry-->Walk Score rating for walkability to amenities.<!--/source--> |
| `walkability_description` | `string | null` | <!--source:property-registry-->Description of walkable amenities and access.<!--/source--> |
| `highway_access` | `string | null` | <!--source:property-registry-->Quality of highway access. `Excellent``Great``Good``Fair``Poor`<!--/source--> |
| `major_highways` | `array` | <!--source:property-registry-->List of major highways and their accessibility.<!--/source--> |

## Provenance and coverage

A record of this class is validated against the same definition whatever jurisdiction it came from, which is what makes two counties comparable without a per-county adapter. A jurisdiction appears below only where a committed configuration serves this class's surface.

- Lee, Florida
- Palm Beach, Florida
- Miami-Dade, Florida
- Orange, Florida
- Santa Clara, California

How a new jurisdiction is brought online
