[open-government] Who is hacking on transport data?

Wed Nov 23 22:18:16 UTC 2011

Daniel, I'd be happy to connect you with some of my colleagues who are
experts on this stuff in the U.S. In the meantime, here are a few notable
things to check out in the US:

City Go Round <http://www.citygoround.org/> is similar to Trafiklab. It
lists the transit agencies that have and have not released their data in
GTFS (general transit feed specification) along with all the apps that are
available to work with GTFS. This creates a nice dynamic because it
simultaneously creates peer pressure and competitiveness amongst transit
agencies and shows the value proposition of opening data (with all the apps
listed).

A Case for Open Data in
Transit<http://openplans.org/civichacker/2010/08/02/a-case-for-open-data-in-transit/>is
a short documentary we made about the value of open data in transit.

We also work on some of the worlds largest open source transit projects
including OpenTripPlanner <http://opentripplanner.com/> and the
continued development
of OneBusAway as it is rolled out across all NYC buses as MTA
BusTime<http://openplans.org/2011/11/22/staten-island-well-see-you-in-bus-time/>

OpenTripPlanner has been used in a number of places in Europe and around
the world and I'm pretty sure that the open source work on MTA BusTime is
being done with the same SIRI standards used in Europe.

A good place to learn more about what's going on with transit data is this
very active mailing list:
http://groups.google.com/group/transit-developers

Best,
Phil

On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Daniel Dietrich
<daniel.dietrich at okfn.org>wrote:

> Dear Peter,
>
> thank you so much for your mail. I have seen your submission to my
> Questionnaire. This is very helpful - indeed! TSDBExplorer looks very
> promising. And I would love to learn more form your experience.
>
> Would you be available for a short interview via phone or skype
> (preferably skype if possible) at any time soon? If so please contact me of
> list to arrange a date.
>
> About hackdays and the like: I think this is really exciting stuff and I
> think the experience in the US and some countries like Sweden [1] has shown
> great success. Maybe OKF could team up and organise a Transport data
> Hackathon in 2012? Possibly attached to next years OKFest in Finland...
>
> Anyone to take that idea on?
>
> All the best
> Daniel
>
>
> 1. http://www.trafiklab.se/
>
> On 19 November 2011 23:00, Peter Hicks <peter.hicks at poggs.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > On 11/11/11 21:33, Daniel Dietrich wrote:
> >>
> >> If you are a transport data hacker, if you are crunching transport
> >> data bites or having trubles getting the data you need to develop a
> >> cool transport data application, please contact me or point me in the
> >> direction of people doing so.
> >
> > That'll be me then!  Thank you to Lucy Chambers for pointing me over
> here.
> >
> > I'm working to free up rail data in the UK.  I have been reasonably
> > successful on a small scale - Network Rail have given me feeds of data
> from
> > their systems - timetables, signalling data, real-time movement data
> based
> > off the signalling data, short-term planned alterations and speed
> > restrictions.  Once those data sets are out there, I want to work on
> fares
> > data.
> >
> > I'm writing a Ruby on Rails application, TSDBExplorer, to process this
> data,
> > as it's incredibly raw and requires a heck of a lot of work to interpret.
> >  Source code is at https://github.com/poggs/tsdbexplorer if anyone
> wants to
> > look.
> >
> > Scaling this up is going to be a challenge, as NR use IBM WebSphere MQ as
> > their enterprise messaging platform.  They want me to use an MQ Server
> if I
> > want a full feed - licence costs are astronomical, so I'm taking a
> partial
> > feed and using the free client instead.  I'm looking for creative ways
> > around it.
> >
> > I am more than happy to talk to anyone about the project, including
> taking
> > part in hackdays, presenting, etc.
> >
> >
> > Peter
> >
> >
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