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In the past 5 years, more and more transit agencies have begun making schedule and realtime operational data available to the public. "Open data" provide opportunities for agencies to inform the public in a variety of ways about transit agency services.
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2 This synthesis examines and documents the state of the practice in open transit data using the following five elements: • Characteristics of open transit data: – Reasons for choosing to provide open data – Standards and protocols for providing open data – Underlying technology used to generate the open data • Legal and licensing issues and practices: – Legal and licensing issues – Public disclosure practices • Uses of open data: – Applications – Decision-support tools – Visualizations • Costs and benefits of providing open data • Opportunities and challenges: – Techniques to engage users and reusers of data – Challenges associated with providing open data – Impacts on transit agencies and the public and private sectors. SUMMARY OF PROJECT FINDINGS Key statistics from the study follow.
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3 outside of the agency; (4) improved the perception of our agency (e.g., openness/transparency)
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4 – The top three steps that respondents took to disclose their data publicly were converting transit data into formats suitable for public use; improving data quality to ensure accuracy and reliability; and adopting an open, nonproprietary data standard. • Uses of open data: – The top five types of customer applications that have been developed as a result of providing open data are (in descending order of frequency)
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5 issues; (4) marketing issues relating to making the open data known and addressing branding issues; and (5)
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