If you are in town for the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting, join me, other transport technologists, and policy-makers at “GTFS in the World” a workshop on open transit data. This is a follow-up to the GTFS in the World event in November 2013. When: January, 15 2:30PM to 5:30PM Where: Organization of American […]
Here’s the presentation visual aid from a presentation I gave last week at APTA’s TransITech in Phoenix with Sean Barbeau of University of South Florida’s Center for Urban Transportation Research. GTFS has been around since 2006, and in the past 7 years it has become the de-facto worldwide standard for describing fixed-route public transportation. A […]
Quick apology: I’m very late posting on this because Trillium has had many projects going on. Look for more regular blog posts over the summer, however. [End excuses.] A post from February 2010 on Human Transit by Jarrett Walker, one of the smartest blogs on public transportation out there, asks if, and how, public transportation […]
Mentor Engineering released a white paper “Simplifying the Open Transit Debate.” For the curious, you can download a PDF, or read an HTML version. The paper summarizes many of the benefits of open data — time saved, agency image benefits, improved customer service, ridership increase, and free application development. It misses some important points though. […]