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Tag Archives: open data
Human Transit email of the week: Should ridership data be online?
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 … Continue reading
Simplifying the Open Transit Debate: White Paper
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, … Continue reading
SF Streestblog nerds out on open transit data
Excuse the late post, but in case you missed it, SF Streetsblog ran a pice on “How Google and Portland’s TriMet Set the Standard for Open Transit Data” in early January. They interview some key players who give a window … Continue reading
CityGoRound.org, a new transportation application directory
The folks at Front Seat, who’ve brought us WalkScore, among other great projects, have done it again. Today, Front Seat launched CityGoRound.org When public transportation information was added to WalkScore, FrontSeat realized they needed more open Google Transit feed data … Continue reading
Notebook from World Intelligent Transportation Systems Congress
About two weeks ago, on September 22nd, I spoke at and attended the World ITS Congress in Stockholm, Sweden. Usually, my audience and colleagues are managers, staff, and consultants for rural, small, and mid-sized transportation U.S. transit agencies. Speaking at, … Continue reading
Open data roundup
Bits are flying in the open transit data discussion. Maybe I am biased, but it appears that a consensus is growing that free, readily-available, standards-based transit data is good for citizens, passengers and transit agencies. Here’s a roundup of recent … Continue reading
Estately – a real estate site with “search by transit proximity” function
I’ve started looking at homes in the Portland area. I think the Estately is going to come in handy. Estately is a real estate site allows people to search for properties by proximity to transit stops. It even allows prospective … Continue reading
Metro developer beta
LA Metro has created something very impressive. The beta version of the Metro developers site just launched. They offer Google Transit Feed Data, and REST+JSON and XML interfaces for Los Angeles area agencies, stop location data, and schedule information. The … Continue reading
S.F. BART interview: Making the web, social media, and the developer community work for transit
San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) provides approximately 375,000 passenger trips every day. Since BART operates in the S.F. Bay Area region, just north of Silicon Valley, these passengers include many technologically creative and demanding people. BART has often … Continue reading
Stay home… miss out.
Some of the sessions at WhereCamp 2009 Originally uploaded by ShirleyLin WhereCamp 2009 just happened in Palo Alto. Unfortunately, I didn’t make it this year; I should have tried to book my air tickets further in advance. Check out some … Continue reading