Hi Naren, All the very best for your undertaking.
I'm working with WRI (World Resources Institute) on opening public transportation data in GTFS format, which is a global open data standard started by Google and adopted by several transit systems <http://tracker.geops.ch> in the West. I'm doing things on the programming side; the other folks on the team are doing the work of meeting agency officials and getting access - and I must say it's a lot of work. So they might be good resources to talk with regarding the points you mentioned. *Here is an open source tool <https://github.com/WRI-Cities/static-GTFS-manager>* we've been building, targeted for use by agencies to manage their schedules and mapping data. It's in active development so there's several more features to come, and coding participation is invited (plug: coding internship? Contact me!). ---------------- Also, specific to Bangalore, please add this to your list of resources: https://github.com/nihar1024/bengaluru_buses It's the source code and data (well curated data!) for an app independently developed by a Bangalore kid (he was 13 or 14 at the time) named Nihar Thakkar when he found the official things falling short. His app *is here* <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bangalorebuses>. I've conversed with him about the experience of creating this. There are many things he learned along the way that might be good inputs for you as per your specific questions. From the ground level of course, not the officials level. I'll connect you both privately. -- Cheers, Nikhil VJ +91-966-583-1250 Pune, India Website <http://nikhilvj.co.in> DataMeet Pune chapter <https://datameet-pune.github.io/> Self-designed learner at Swaraj University <http://www.swarajuniversity.org> Payment / Contribute <https://nikhilvj.benow.in/pay> On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 4:05 PM Naren Pai <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello! > > I am an auto-product design engineer turned a student of public policy and > governance at Azim Premji University. I am part of a team, and our area of > enquiry is the stakes involved for urban governance actors (and non-state > actors) in maintaining and sharing open-data artefacts with respect to > public transportation. > > Some of my specific questions for Bangalore are- > >what are the data-sets required for congestion management? > >what are inter-modal agency data-strategies? > >what is the political economy of route-determination? > > I thought I must not re-invent the wheel and go through the group and the > blog and I am learning a lot from https://github.com/geohacker/bmtc, etc. > > Any specific readings/suggestions or general thoughts would be really > meaningful to me. I will, of course, would share insights from my team as > we embark on this year-long journey. > > Thanks! > > -- > Narendra Pai > MA Public Policy & Governance (2017-2019) > Azim Premji University, Bangalore > https://www.linkedin.com/in/narenpai/ > > -- > Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more > about us by visiting http://datameet.org > --- > 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/d/optout. > -- Datameet is a community of Data Science enthusiasts in India. Know more about us by visiting http://datameet.org --- 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/d/optout.
