Crowdsourcing Data For Public Transport Information
- 1. crowdsourcing data for public transport information arun ganesh, srikanth lakshmanan
- 2. what are my travel options? -walk -cycle -vehicle/auto -bus/public transit
- 3. what are my safe travel options? -walk -cycle -vehicle/auto -bus/public transit
- 4. can i travel by bus? -is there a bus to my destination? -where is the bus stop? -when will my bus come? -how long will my trip take? -how comfortable will it be? -how much will i save? -what are my alternatives?
- 5. who has that information? -conductors -commuters -bus stations -bus authorities
- 6. how to collect all that data?
- 7. how to collect all that data? crowdsource
- 9. what we found -crowdsourcing makes data collection faster -errors in of cial data source -gaps in public transport coverage -patterns in bus route numbers -key transit locations -site analysis data
- 10. how openstreetmap helped - exible database -crowdsourcing for map data -lets anyone add features -makes the map dynamic -map data entirely opensource www.osm.org
- 11. what else we can crowdsource -translate entire dataset into local language -location of each bus stop -addition of other transport links and ways -clean and x of cial data -expand database to make it more rich
- 12. what else has been done
- 13. chennai suburban rail and bus map google: chennai suburban map
- 14. chennai public transport map
- 15. bus stop information panel
- 16. and bangalore?
- 17. Do visit http://busroutes.in http://j.mp/ArunGanesh Student, National Institute of Design Bangalore Srikanth L [email protected] Yet another software engineer