Archive for March, 2007
Sunday, March 18th, 2007
links for 2007-03-19
Remarkk! » Is Traditional Activism a Dead Medium? Discussion by one of the Transit Camp protagonists comparing “traditional” activism with ____ Camp activism. I spent some time going to “traditional” transit activist meetings and the negativity (and infighting!) was a big turn-off. (tags: transitcamp activism) GoLoco GoLoco is a carpooling social network with a trip [...]
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
links for 2007-03-14
How you can help build an open Toronto transit map The OpenTTC guys are building their own set of TTC route maps using a nifty tool that Kevin Branigan put together; the routes start as straight lines connecting timepoints, but the app allows users to add points to make them follow the right roads. (tags: [...]
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Sunday, March 11th, 2007
links for 2007-03-12
Walkers Tube Map – Going Underground’s Blog Blog post about a couple of alternative London Underground maps that show walking times between stops; interesting because it’s so easy to overestimate the effort of walking somewhere (tags: maps walking London) TimeTable Publisher @ TransITech 2007 (PDF) Frank Purcell’s latest presentation about TriMet’s open-source TimeTable Publisher application, [...]
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Saturday, March 10th, 2007
links for 2007-03-11
Google’s Buses Help Its Workers Beat the Rush – New York Times Interesting stats on Google’s private shuttle network for its employees; it’s what allows me to work for them while living carfree in San Francisco (though it would be even better to have offices in SF) (tags: sanfrancisco privatetransit)
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Friday, March 9th, 2007
links for 2007-03-10
Doctor Transit/League of Transit Doctors: We need a transit users conference, now! A call to action for more rider participation and creative thinking in the DC metro area. (tags: transitcamp dc) Let’s Go. (Philadelphia City Paper) 33 ideas for a better SEPTA (tags: philadelphia ideas) SFist: I Wish… Ideas for improving the NextBus vehicle tracking [...]
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Thursday, March 8th, 2007
links for 2007-03-09
Google Transit expands to Austin Timed to coincide with the beginning of this year’s SXSW media conference (tags: austin tripplanner thirdpartysites googletransit) Steve Munro’s Web Site » Signs of the Times Adding expiration dates to signage is a cheap, simple idea that can improve the user experience of transit. Several other agencies (Paris, for instance) [...]
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Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
links for 2007-03-07
Ryan Feeley » Created: TTC Stop Timetable in PDF A handsome-looking paper schedule mockup for the TTC 501 route. I know there are more independent schedule designs out there, so if you come across any, send them in! (tags: toronto schedules design) The Columbia Journalist – Transit Authority discovers City Island One man’s (successful) quest [...]
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Monday, March 5th, 2007
links for 2007-03-06
Steve Munro’s Web Site » The Myth of On-Time Performance Discussion about the difficulties of keeping buses “on schedule”, and whether it actually provides better service. Interesting because a lot of transit information is schedule-based. (tags: toronto operations schedules) Portland Transit Custom Search Engine Here’s a custom search engine for Portland Transit, mostly based on [...]
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Friday, March 2nd, 2007
Google Transit Feed Spec update for February 2007
Google Transit recently updated their open feed specification for exchanging transit data, and since I helped with a few of the revisions, I thought I’d summarize what’s new: Headway-based schedule support The new frequencies.txt file allows you to specify that a bus or train trip happens every 10 minutes, rather than listing out exact times [...]