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Opening TriMet

ITS CANADA WEBINAR

Tim McHugh, CTO

Open View

• Open Data Apps• Open Source & Collaboration OpenTripPlanner• Opening Soon• Open Strategies

Open Data Policies

• Make data equally available to all• Minimize restrictions• Make it easy for developers to get,

understand and use our data• Maintain connection to developers

Open Data Surprise Benefits

• Free creative apps otherwise unseen• No push needed – apps just appear• Relationship with developer community• Quick QA feedback on data• Facilitated grassroots standards (GTFS)

Open Data Fears Abated

• Competition will weed out the bad apps and make others better

• Complaints directed to developer• No noticeable drain on infrastructure• Backward compatibility only API overhead

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Developer ResourcesPromotes use of transit and customer information related to transit

App Center50 mark celebration

Criteria for promotion on apps page:

1. Must use our resources (no screen scraping)

2. Must work as it says is does (we test them)

Open API Positioning

Transit TrackerAPI

TT by Phone

TT by Text

TT Web & Mobile Web

Platform Signs

3rd Party Apps

Commuter Rail Tracking

LRV Train Tracking

Fixed Rte Bus CAD/AVL

SIRI

Open Source & Collaboration

• Move beyond sharing ideas – Collaborate on tools

• OS as a real mechanism to share applications

• OS & OD are key to software collaboration

Open Trip Planner

• 100% Open Source - Worldwide community• Based on Open Data (GTFS, OpenStreetMap) • Support options commercially available• Fosters innovation and competition• Multimodal feature encourages active

transportation, can alleviate last mile problem, can save travel times

• Regional trip planning expansion possibilities

OPENING SOON …

Oregon Transit Network Analyst

• ODOT chose OpenTripPlanner Network Analyst extension

• 42 of 50 Transit Providers in GTFS• Fresh look at comprehensive statewide Transit

Map• Make available to the public• Made possible by: GTFS, OSM, OSS

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Visualization

Feed List :□ Basin Transit Service (Klamath Falls)□ Caravan Airport Transportation□ Cascades East Transit (City of Bend and region)□ Cherriots (Salem)□ City of Milton-Freewater Oregon (Milton-Freewater)□ Columbia Area Transit (Hood River County)□ Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (Umatilla)□ Curry Public Transit (Brookings/Gold Beach)□ HUT Airport Shuttle□ Lane Transit District (Eugene)□ People Mover□ Porter Stage Lines

□ Ride Connection (Portland Metro Area)□ RVTD (Medford)□ SMART (Wilsonville)□ South Lane Wheels (Lane County)□ South Metro Area Regional Transit (Wilsonville)□ Sunset Empire Transportation District (Clatsop County)□ TAC Transportation□ The Shuttle, Inc.□ Tillamook County Transportation District (Tillamook County)■ TriMet (Portland)□ U-Trans (Roseburg)□ Valley Retriever□ Woodburn Transit (Woodburn)

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Service Disruption Information

APIAPI

Mobile Ticketingby Transit Sherpa

App Dilemmas

• Encouraging 3rd party apps vs Official Branded apps. Competition?

• How to support 3rd party apps on abandonment

Not Your Grandmother’s IT

• Open Data• Open Source Software• Open APIs• Open Standards• 3rd party Apps• Crowd Sourcing

Open Strategies

• Leave options Open• Force open standards in procured products• Strive for loosely coupled components• Small adaptable APIs• Flexible and nimble

THANK YOU