Tue 13 Mar 2007
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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.
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Transit ridership is on the rise–what better time to help make transit information more accessible and enjoyable for new riders?
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Sun 11 Mar 2007
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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
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(PDF) Frank Purcell’s latest presentation about TriMet’s open-source TimeTable Publisher application, including UI screenshots
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Fri 9 Mar 2007
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A call to action for more rider participation and creative thinking in the DC metro area.
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33 ideas for a better SEPTA
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Ideas for improving the NextBus vehicle tracking and prediction for Muni vehicles in San Francisco
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Thu 8 Mar 2007
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Timed to coincide with the beginning of this year’s SXSW media conference
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Adding expiration dates to signage is a cheap, simple idea that can improve the user experience of transit. Several other agencies (Paris, for instance) do this as a matter of course.
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Mapping Seattle’s planned light-rail line on MS Virtual Earth. Nice, but is there any way to export collection data for use in other apps?
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Tue 6 Mar 2007
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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!
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One man’s (successful) quest to get his city shown on the NYC Subway map.
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Mon 5 Mar 2007
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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.
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Here’s a custom search engine for Portland Transit, mostly based on Jason McHuff’s wonderfully comprehensive collection of Portland transit links.
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Nice collection of white papers on innovative transit solutions
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This is the official writeup of recommendations to the TTC distilled from the recent Toronto Transit Camp.
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Sat 24 Feb 2007
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The openTTC guys have been making pretty good progress in putting together a basic TTC data set
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First steps towards putting together a Vancouver Transit Camp–the audio recording on the Moosecamp page that she links to is pretty interesting (and the quality is good enough to be listenable).
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Portland adds new pedestrian signage to their downtown area, on a $200K budget. Good signage helps make people less uncomfortable with unfamiliar areas. Anyone have readable pictures of these? I’m curious about what details are marked on the map
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Demo of Logi Vidarsson’s TTC trip planner, using scraped data. He’s willing to share the source, depending on the application.
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Interesting musings on how to help people discover places of interest within their walkable vicinity. Transit and car-sharing go hand-in-hand with walkability, so anything we do to help people explore their surroundings on foot helps the cause of transit
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Article about how best to connect low-income areas with healthy food. The Austin “grocery bus” that the article mentions is intriguing. I remember that in Pittsburgh, the grocery stores nearest to low-income areas seemed to always have a few jitneys
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Mon 19 Feb 2007
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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.)
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Designer Sean Moran has created a mockup of how TriMet might improve the instructional signage on the Portland Streetcar fare machines.
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Sun 18 Feb 2007
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The “Charlie on the MBTA” blog attempts to follow the Toronto Transit Camp recipe. Godspeed!
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Peter Rukavina has done a great job providing source and documentation for his Charlottetown (Canada) transit mashup.
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Nice listing of Toronto-related mashups–I’ve just added the transit-related ones to the TTC page in the wiki.
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A good post about Toronto Transit Camp and unconventions in general–don’t miss the extended comment by ringleader Mark Kuznicki about future Transit Camp plans.
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Good account of the original Toronto Transit Camp.
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Why does Pennsylvania transit get shortchanged by state legislators? Unsurprisingly, most of them don’t have transit-riding constituents.
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BadTransit (a site dedicated to griping about the MBTA) expresses doubt that a Boston Transit Camp would make any difference.
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