Hi Srinivas, You are right. ITS has been the buzzword in the country in Public Transport sector for couple of years after the 12th Planning commission suggestions for inclusion of technology to fillip the usage and betterment of PT across country.
But, the adoption on ITS is quite low across country due to the fact that there are no vendors to implement it the right way. Mysore KSRTC is the only full ITS implementation in the country. It is still far in terms of usability and usefulness. Visit mitra.ksrtc.in to see how you can track buses in realtime. But access to data openly in terms of API or any other form does not exists. Lack of confidence and confusion is prevailing more. Across all level in the domain everyone is looking for a successful model which can be referred to. So, in this situation,access to open data in terms of routes, schedules, bus stops, GPS logs is a bit too much to ask for. Firstly the data acquisition has to be in place. No one is talking about data standardization for now. You have rightly pointed, that push for open access to the ITS data is needed through policies and followed by tender contracts. An initiative can be taken now for ITS data standardization and access mode definition. Regards, Suvajit On Monday, December 23, 2013 5:55:29 PM UTC+5:30, srinivas kodali wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > This post is regarding policy requirements for open access of transit data > in India. > > The Indian Government is spending significant amount of money in > Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) around the country through > Jawaharlal > Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM). Most city road transport > corporations are already implementing such systems by tracking city buses > with GPS units. Mysore and Delhi are good implementations for these systems > apart from pilot implementations across all major cities. > > But open access of data for public and developers is limited. The > contractors for these implementations are fooling the transit organizations > by coming up with clauses withholding raw data with them. > > The planning commission working group for 12th five year plan on transport > has recommended an investment of Rs. 8520 crores for ITS and a total of Rs > 3,88,308 crores in transport sector by the government ( document attached ). > > There is a huge requirement for policies and data standards in transit > space to save public money and to solve traffic problems. > > I am not sure how i can contribute in terms of policies to get open access > and need some advice in this regard. I have been working on city real-time > traffic information as a developer for couple of years. > > Regards, > Srinivas > > > > > > > -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
