[Open-transport] Fwd: Availability of historic AVL information at country scale

Mon Feb 10 21:52:49 UTC 2014

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Op maandag 10 februari 2014 17:50:25 UTC+1 schreef Stefan de Konink:
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> Hello, 
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> Al you may have read in papers [1] Automatic Vehicle Location data is very 
> valuable for academic research. In The Netherlands such data has been 
> available at country scale for about 18 months and is used in online data 
> visualisation [2], realtime journey planners [3], GTFS-RT datastreams [4] 
> but most importantly: it has been historically collected!
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> The bulk data contains *realtime* timestamps, GPS positions and every 
> arrival/departure call through the route. Some quantitative numbers; an 
> extracted day, converted to CSV is about 1GB of data and contains about 
> 7.000.000 rows of data, LZMA compressed about 80MB per day. We have also 
> recently started to export all *planned* arrival/departures per day. So 
> even if you are not interested in this from a transport perspective, the 
> big data aspect might trigger you. Technical specifications can be found 
> here: https://ndovloket.nl/research/
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> As non-profit foundation, and its main distributor, we are quite happy to 
> make this public transport information available for free under a liberal 
> license so it can be used in open access publications. [Sadly not yet CC-0, 
> but we are working that, about 1/3 is already CC-0 ;]
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> We are extremely interested, academically speaking, if we could form some 
> sort of public database containing historic realtime information in such 
> way that researchers can sample multiple public transport networks for 
> their publications. If you have any question, feel free to write me 
> off-list. I'll be attending Datadays 2014, Belgium for face-to-face contact.
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> Yours Sincerely,
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> Stefan de Konink
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> Stichting OpenGeo
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> [1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2471878.2472333&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE
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> [2] http://ovradar.nl/ http://ovzoeker.nl/
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> [3] http://opentripplanner.nl/
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> [4] http://gtfs.ovapi.nl/new/
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