Open Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Transit Agencies

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

doi:10.17226/22195

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Open Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Transit Agencies

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TRB’s Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) Synthesis 115: Open Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Transit Agencies documents the current state of the practice in the use, policies, and impact of open data for improving transit planning, service quality, and treatment of customer information.

Contributor(s): National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Transportation Research Board; Transit Cooperative Research Program; Carol L. Schweiger

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National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2015. Open Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Transit Agencies. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/22195.

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123 pages | 8.5 x 11 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.17226/22195

Chapters		skim
Front Matter	i-vii
Summary	1-5
Chapter One - Introduction	6-7
Chapter Two - Literature Review	8-34
Chapter Three - Survey Results: Characteristics of Open Transit Data	35-42
Chapter Four - Survey Results: Legal and Licensing Issues and Practices	43-44
Chapter Five - Survey Results: Uses of Open Data	45-47
Chapter Six - Survey Results: Costs, Benefits, Challenges, and Opportunities	48-52
Chapter Seven - Case Examples	53-68
Chapter Eight - Conclusions	69-74
Abbreviations and Acronyms	75-76
References	77-81
Appendix A - Survey Questionnaire	82-101
Appendix B - Agencies and Staff Titles Responding to the Survey	102-104
Appendix C - Transportation Organizations and Conferences Discussing and Promoting Open Transit Data	105-106
Appendix D - Total Annual Ridership for Each Responding Agency	107-108
Appendix E - Example Developer License Agreements and Terms of Use	109-109
Appendix F - Examples of Open Transit Data Applications	110-110
Appendix G - Examples of Applications from Transport Innovation Deployment for Europe (TIDE) Project	111-112
Appendix H - TfL Open Transit Data Available from the London Datastore	113-115

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