Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transit Data

What Did UCLA Really Discover About Millennials’ Reasons for Driving Less?

By Tony Dutzik | Nov 5, 2013 | No Comments

Tony Dutzik is senior policy analyst with Frontier Group and co-author of a recent report on shifting transportation habits. Members of the Millennial generation drive less than they did a decade ago. That much is clear. But are Millennials driving less simply because of the economy? Or are they driving less by choice, because of […]

Notorious Patent Troll Forced to Stop Targeting Transit Agencies

By Angie Schmitt | Aug 22, 2013 | No Comments

A patent troll who persistently sued transit agencies for using technology that gives passengers real-time arrival information won’t harass any more transit providers under the terms of a settlement reached in federal court yesterday. The firm known as ArrivalStar — led by a patent holder named Martin Kelley Jones — had sued 11 local transit […]

Cuomo’s Office Opens Up Transpo Data, But Not Crash Locations

By Stephen Miller | Jul 26, 2013 | No Comments

On Wednesday, Governor Cuomo announced a new raft of publicly-accessible data on the state’s data transparency website, data.NY.gov. Some of the data sets include information that was already accessible in different forms, while other sets are newly available to the public. The release also includes detailed information about individual crashes from the Department of Motor Vehicles, but […]

APTA Goes After Transit-Harassing Patent Troll

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 26, 2013 | No Comments

For years, transit agencies and other companies have been harassed by a patent troll seeking to extort them for “settlements” when they use real-time vehicle tracking technologies. ArrivalStar and Melvino Technologies, offshore firms led by one Martin Kelly Jones, claim to hold the rights to those ideas. Jones has been picking off agencies one by one […]

The Upside of iPhones Without Google Transit Directions

By Angie Schmitt | Jun 18, 2012 | 1 Comment

As we reported last week, the new Apple mobile operating system, iOS 6, will come with a new, Apple-designed Maps application that eschews Google’s mapping tools and comes without standard transit directions. The Apple Maps app will provide driving and walking directions, but transit riders will have to access third-party plug-ins to figure out the […]

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