Recent Streetsblog NYC posts about Transit Data

Patent Troll Sues Transit Agencies For Releasing Real-Time Transit Info

By Tanya Snyder | Apr 16, 2012 | No Comments

Lloyd Dobbler, John Cusack’s generation-defining character in Say Anything, notably said, “I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career.” Martin Kelly Jones lives by a similar creed. He doesn’t make or sell anything. Instead he makes his living by attacking transit agencies for using real-time tracking technologies that he […]

Google Shows That When Transit Agencies Free Their Data, Riders Win

By Tanya Snyder | Jun 10, 2011 | No Comments

Earlier this week, in a forum about intelligent cities and the ways data can improve urban planning, Carolyn Young of Portland’s TriMet let it slip that Portland was one of the first cities to share its real-time transit tracking data on Google Maps. (Google announced the news two days later.) For transit agencies, letting Google […]

DOT’s Annual Scorecard Confirms: Most New Yorkers Don’t Shop and Drive

By Noah Kazis | May 2, 2011 | 7 Comments

NYCDOT’s annual scorecard, the Sustainable Streets Index, adds more information about how New Yorkers get around every year. In addition to regular statistical snapshots of the city’s transportation system, like transit ridership or traffic speeds culled from GPS devices in taxis, this year’s version adds neighborhood travel profiles. Compiled from interviews in eight neighborhoods, these […]

Real-Time Bus Info Arrives Along the B63

By Noah Kazis | Feb 1, 2011 | 19 Comments

From the Verrazano to Brooklyn Heights, passengers on the B63 can now make their rides more predictable. As of today, the MTA has launched a new bus tracking system that enables riders to find the location of every bus on the route either online or by text message. For riders who can send texts or […]

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Chicago’s Bus Tracker: Taking the Guesswork Out of Waiting for the Bus

By Elizabeth Press | Jan 14, 2011 | No Comments

One of the encouraging trends for American transit riders, in an otherwise bleak landscape of service cuts and fare hikes, is the growing number of agencies experimenting with ways to bring better information to their customers. Last summer Streetfilms explored how open transit data is helping to make riding the bus or the train more convenient in […]

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