Hi Srinivas, You are absolutely right in identifying the root cause of the problem of availability and quality of public transport information India - "The DATA".
Lack of proper definition, standardisation and implementation has laid to condition where though services are running somehow but any scope of improving the same adopting technology and systems is getting hindered. I have been discussing on the same issue at different Transport forums. Here is my article on TheCityFix which highlights the same points who put in : http://thecityfix.com/blog/across-divide-information-communication-technologies-ict-data-connect-users-transport-systems-suvajt-sengupta/ My job, expertise and interest revolves around this subject and I will be quite eager to participate in this exercise. If we can come up with the open-data standard, we can surely push them into Central Govt & STU technical specifications. It is the need of the hour. I can clearly say, STUs are losing millions of investment money for ITS implementation due to lack of this data and communication standard. I propose to have a first level coordination meeting on this subject. Nisha, Thanks for creating the datameet wiki on this subject. I want upload some more documents and references on this subject. Can you let me know how to do that ? Regards, Suvajit Sengupta On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 9:21:29 AM UTC+5:30, Nisha Thompson wrote: > > Hey All, > > I think this is a really great idea. And I agree with Dilip we can break > it up and assign tasks. > > I have started a wiki: > http://datameet.org/wiki/start_transportationdocumentdraft > > Where we can put the final outline and assignments. Let's use this thread > to flush out the outline. > > Nisha > > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 9:23 PM, srinivas kodali <iota....@gmail.com > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Well i haven`t laid out the complete sections of the document yet. But it >> will be majorly on the following topics >> >> 1. Standards and Structured data storage of transport data >> >> 2. Different practices in transport applications/data analysis >> >> 3. Copy rights and licenses of data >> >> 4. Open data and Open Source implementations in transport >> >> It will be majorly a technical document with minor details on open-data >> policies and advantages. Individuals who want to contribute need to be >> fairly aware of the following technologies: >> >> These are just to give you an idea what you will be working on. You don`t >> need to know everything >> >> 1. Database design >> 2. Exposure to OSM, Geojson and Maps/Tranport related specs >> 3. Exposure to handling Big data (The data can be around 10-40 GB easily) >> 4. Standards in Transport data (GTFS, GTFS Realtime,SIRI) >> 5. Expertise in Socket Programming, Protocol Buffers, real-time data >> protocols. >> >> We will be evaluating and implementing couple of applications/protocols >> before we recommend it. It will be fairly a technical document. The >> document will be shared in the group after completion for two reviews. >> Everybody can contribute in terms of suggestions and criticizing the >> suggestions. >> >> Regards, >> Srinivas >> >> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Dilip Damle <cadv...@gmail.com >> <javascript:>> wrote: >> >>> Srinivas, >>> >>> I think it will better if you can list out the tasks that other >>> contributors are expected to do. >>> Based on that and the individual capability and time may be some of us >>> may enlist ourselves for a particular task. >>> >>> >>> rgds >>> Dilip Damle >>> (New Delhi) >>> >>> >>> On Tuesday, August 12, 2014 4:40:46 PM UTC+5:30, srinivas kodali wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> I am looking to publish a technical document on data standards for >>>> transport agencies in India. This document will be published through >>>> datameet and we are also looking at getting these implemented across >>>> transport agencies. >>>> >>>> The attached technical document from BMTC will give you an Idea what >>>> you will be making, but a bit more precise and usage of open data, open >>>> source technologies in transport. >>>> >>>> The timeline we are looking at is 4-6 weeks. Anybody interested in >>>> transportation is welcome to contribute. Please state your intentions for >>>> contribution within this week. >>>> >>>> We need this, so that we can have unified transport data across the >>>> country, regardless of states and governments. >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Srinivas >>>> >>> -- >>> Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. 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