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  • “Throw away your screen scraper”, BART has released their schedules to the public in Google Transit Feed Spec format!
  • BusFinder is a real-time arrivals display that’s been installed at 30 stops in Arlington, VA. Seems like a great idea if it reduces the uncertainty at more stops, but waiting 30 seconds to get the arrival info seems a bit long.
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  • This is what’s been keeping me and my co-worker Tom Brown busy for the past month or so. It’s a Python library for reading/writing GTFS, as well as sample programs to view and validate feeds. Also TriMet releases the first publicly-available GTFS feed!
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  • Article about an unaffiliated designer’s quest to get his subway map adopted by the New York Subway. It’s nice that the MTA folks took the time to meet with him and talk it over.
    (tags: maps newyork)
  • Daydreaming about using webcams and vision detection to determine when a streetcar is at a particular stop. Does anyone know of any nontraditional vehicle tracking systems like this that people have put together?
  • Fascinating hack by MetroRiderLA–they’re having their posse enter transit stations as Yelp locations so that it’ll be easy to see what restaurants and businesses are nearby, and vice-versa. Apparently they’ve made good progress over the last few months!
  • Nice list of things that a new TTC website should have–this should be required reading for agency webmasters.
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  • There’s been a mobile version of this since last year, but it’s nice to have routing for some non-US agencies in the Google Transit interface. It can return trips that involves transfers to airplanes!
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  • The MBTA has developed new maps that help people learn more about the buses that operate in their area. We need more of this sort of thing; uncertainty about where buses go and when is a huge impediment to increasing ridership.
    (tags: boston maps)
  • Here are some PDF samples of the new MBTA bus maps.
    (tags: boston bus maps pdf)
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  • Nice exploration of signage and transit information at three different airports. Figuring out whether transit is workable for you (and if so, what you’ll need to do to use) on arrival in a foreign city is still a pervasive problem.
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  • Open-source transit (and more) routing engine, with support for Google Transit Feed Spec feeds.
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  • One of my co-workers will be giving a presentation next week for agencies who want to learn more about participating in Google Transit.
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  • The new interface makes it easier to compare different route options and cycle through zoomed-in views of each step of the route.
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  • 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.
  • GoLoco is a carpooling social network with a trip planner-style interface, the sort of thing that many people have been talking about for years. Godspeed!
  • Discussion of how far people are willing to walk to transit routes. In my own experience areas that make the pedestrian feel impatient, bored, or unsafe are bigger factors than actual distance. Can a trip planner encode “psychological distance”?
  • Discussion of how the independent California Transit Information Pages of the late 90′s may have provided better service than their modern, official equivalents, and why they died out.
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