Archive for February, 2007
Saturday, February 24th, 2007
links for 2007-02-25
OpenTTC Forums :: View topic – Schedule Data The openTTC guys have been making pretty good progress in putting together a basic TTC data set (tags: toronto thirdpartysites openttc) countably infinite ยป A TransitCamp, please! In Vancouver! First steps towards putting together a Vancouver Transit Camp–the audio recording on the Moosecamp page that she links [...]
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Monday, February 19th, 2007
links for 2007-02-20
b0st0n: update on CharlieTicket collection Discussion about collecting discarded farecards that still have some value left, combining the values, and donating the result to charity. (I’ve heard of similar efforts in San Francisco.) (tags: boston) Portland Transport: Easier Streetcar Tickets Designer Sean Moran has created a mockup of how TriMet might improve the instructional signage [...]
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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
links for 2007-02-19
Charlie on the MBTA: An open invitation to Dan Grabauskas The “Charlie on the MBTA” blog attempts to follow the Toronto Transit Camp recipe. Godspeed! (tags: boston transitcamp) Interactive Charlottetown Transit Map – Headway Peter Rukavina has done a great job providing source and documentation for his Charlottetown (Canada) transit mashup. (tags: charlottetown thirdpartysites) Toronto [...]
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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
TriMet’s open source TimeTable Publisher
One of the most exciting talks that I saw at last week’s APTA TransITech conference was Frank Purcell of TriMet’s talk about TimeTable Publisher. (I don’t have a link for that presentation yet, but here’s a PDF of his talk at GOSCON 2006.) TimeTable Publisher is an application that TriMet developed in-house for turning their [...]
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Sunday, February 18th, 2007
QuizNight.net Google Transit directions mashup
A Seattle-based pub trivia site just added a nifty transit directions feature to their site, combining their own location database with Google Transit’s Seattle routing. To see an example: View one of their venue pages, such as The Great Nabob. Enter a Seattle address into the “Current location:” box in the upper-right part of the [...]
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Monday, February 12th, 2007
links for 2007-02-13
NOW Magazine – Camp-out with TTC Geeks Toronto Transit Camp coverage from a weekly (tags: transitcamp toronto newspaper) Toronto Star – Minding the gaps on The Better Way Positive coverage of the recent Toronto Transit Camp (tags: toronto transitcamp) Metro – Transit needs to engage public in two-way dialogue Column holding up Transit Camp as [...]
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Sunday, February 11th, 2007
What is Headway?
The word headway is public transit jargon for “the time between buses or trains on the same line”. You could say that it’s the pulse of a transit route. Headway, this blog, is about improving public transportation. While the most obvious way to improve transit is to provide more of it, that’s an undertaking that [...]