Pierre-Leo Bourbonnais
Pierre-Léo Bourbonnais is a Research Professional at Chaire Mobilité, Polytechnique Montreal. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering and specializes in travel survey methodology, public transit network design and optimization, and geospatial data management. He is one of the lead developers of Transition, an open-source transit planning platform, and Evolution, a travel survey interview platform. As a member of the OpenStreetMap Foundation, he actively contributes to mapping and validating geospatial data across Quebec and Canada. His work bridges academic research with practical applications, with publications in leading transportation journals.
Session
Transport models routinely anchor points of interest (POIs) at the centroid of their building or parcel. On large multi-building sites, this can misrepresent pedestrian access, distorting first-/last-mile transit access, wheelchair routing, and curbside drop-off precision. We quantify how explicit entrance=* detail in OSM shifts accessibility-style metrics relative to centroid proxies. The study uses a global, population/built-volume-weighted random sample to compare centroids against the nearest main entrance. We release the full toolchain that persists measurements between POI / entrance / centroid anchors and the nearest road network and transit stop.