Transit 2.0 - World Intelligent Transportation Systems Congress

Aaron Antrim, Trillium Solutions Transit 2.0 How online partnerships and open data are spurring public transit innovation & improving public awareness of travel options

Spending on auto  adver/sing in the  U.S. peaked in 2004  at $24 billion  Source: Wall Street Journal  $44 billion was spent  on transit in the  United States that  year  Source: Na0onal Transit  Database 

How can transit  compete and thrive? 

Planners advocate integrating transit into the streetscape.

When does my train arrive? What time does the (trimet.org & 5 iPhone Where’s a good library close? (Google) apps) restaurant? (yelp.com & iPhone app)

How we integrate transit into the landscape of online information?

How can transit compete and thrive? How do we integrate transit into the landscape of online information? Open data makes transit information more ubiquitous.

Open data for transit information ubiquity •  Examples: •  Google Transit •  Agency developer sites •  iPhone applications •  Estately •  Walkscore.com •  BrailleNote •  Multi-modal planning •  TransitAndTrails.org •  GTFS for rural providers

Everywhere there is travel informa/on,  transit should be an op/on 

Everywhere there is travel informa/on,  transit is an op/on  Google Transit

The Google Transit Feed Specification, as a lightweight data standard for transit geographic and schedule data, has quickly become an increasingly ubiquitous format. And you don’t have to be Google to use it.

We’re small and we can’t provide every customized solution people ask for…. making the data available is something that we’re very familiar with so that developers can develop the tools themselves. It’s like having an army of developers available to us. — Tim McHugh, CTO, Trimet [full interview at tinyurl.com/trimet-cto]

“The old limits of what unmanaged and unpaid groups can do are no longer in operation; the difficulties that kept self-assembled groups from working together are shrinking, meaning that the number and kinds of things groups can get done without financial motivation or managerial oversight are growing.” — Clay Shirky, Here Comes Everybody

developer.trimet.org for Portland, Oregon •  Real time arrivals •  GTFS schedules •  Developer license •  Open source software •  Transit terminology Open data for transit information ubiquity

SF BART developer site, SF Bay Area, California •  Real time arrivals •  GTFS schedules •  Developer license •  RSS service advisories Open data for transit information ubiquity

developer.metro.net for Southern California •  Schedule API •  GTFS schedules •  Developer license •  GIS data •  Terminology and data guide Open data for transit information ubiquity

iTunes Application store: Applications for trip planning, maps, arrival estimates and updates. Open data for transit information ubiquity

iBART: A free application for arrivals and trip planning. (pandav.us)

estately.com Real estate search site lets users search by proximity to transit. Estately obtains transit info from public Google Transit Feed Spec data. Open data for transit information ubiquity

walkscore.com: How far will public transit take you in 15, 30, or 45 minutes? Uses public GTFS. Open data for transit information ubiquity

Sendero Group (www.senderogroup.com) Talking GPS with refreshable braille display loads transit locations from GTFS. Open data for transit information ubiquity

Travel Assistant Device: University of South Florida pilot project utilizes GTFS and mobile phones to tell riders with special needs when to alight from the vehicle. More at www.nctr.usf.edu/abstracts/abs77711.htm

Goose Networks: Multi-Modal Planning Goose Networks software uses GTFS to incorporate fixed-route transit into multi-modal trip planner Show all relevant options; 7 carpool, 3 transit goosenetworks.com Open data for transit information ubiquity

Goose Networks: Interagency transfers Genentech – South San Francisco Transfer from BART to private employer shuttle goosenetworks.com Open data for transit information ubiquity

transitandtrails.org Mashes up hiking trail and campground data with transit (by linking to Google Transit).

northcoastjournal.com Online event calendar has two clicks to transit directions for all events, using Google Transit.

By putting this data in a common format, it can really smooth the information sharing between agencies. …We need to make connections with them [other agencies], and a lot of that now is verbal or through printed material, and there is a great opportunity to actually shuttle the information back and forth to make it much more accessible when you’re planning service. — Tim McHugh, CTO, Trimet [full interview at tinyurl.com/trimet-cto]

Widespread GTFS adoption helps spur successful open source innovation Example: TimeTable Publisher timetablepublisher.org

Small agencies can benefit from GTFS, too. Trillium WebSchedule Easy-to-use, inexpensive web- based app for maintaining and publishing GTFS. more at trilliumtransit.com

Next-generation web-based open source GTFS publishing app beginning development. Stay in touch at www.trilliumtransit.com/blog

Conclusion If agencies provide standardized data, worldwide software development communities can help public transportation agencies to provide information to their customers in more useful ways and places.

Questions? Aaron Antrim, Trillium Solutions aaron@trilliumtransit.com / +1 707.633.4474 / Twitter @aaronantrim Keep up-to-date on open data and GTFS applications at www.trilliumtransit.com/blog

Transit 2.0 - World Intelligent Transportation Systems Congress

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