While the discussion about usage of Swiss transit data is mostly happening behind closed doors - other countries started a public conversion. With the goal to make the data openly available - for the "greater good".

A few links worthwhile following up:

• Jaap Weel writes: Open transit data is good for transit agencies
• Portland TriMed presents learnings with opening up transit data - check out the slide-deck
• In Toronto - subject matter experts meet for TransitCamps to share public transport experiences and work on improvement proposals. I like the mantra: “this is not a complaints department, it is a solutions playground” - that is exactly what I have in mind!
• Role model: BART is providing open up-to-date GTFS files
• Started gathering a screenshot gallery with innovative transit data use in Switzerland - check gallery on Flickr

Posted by Cedric on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 3/26/2008 12:29:00 AM | Permalink