Neal Downing

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Name: Neal Downing
Date registered: January 11, 2012

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  1. TCRP Legal Research Digest 37 – Legal Arrangements for Use and Control of Real-Time Data — February 15, 2012
  2. GIS for Transportation Symposium – April 16-18, 2012 — February 8, 2012
  3. Twitter Promotes Smarter Transit Planning — January 30, 2012
  4. Creating Partnerships through Online Trip Planning and More with National RTAP’s GTFS Builder Web App — January 20, 2012
  5. BusTime to Service All of New York City — January 18, 2012

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  1. Real-Time Bus Tracking and Customer Information in New York City: MTA’s Open Approach to Doing it Faster and Cheaper — 10 comments

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TCRP Legal Research Digest 37 – Legal Arrangements for Use and Control of Real-Time Data

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February 15, 2012

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This issue of the Legal Research Digest discusses the legal importance of real-time data usage to over 6,000 transit agencies in the United States. Technological advancements in the collection and distribution of real-time data have thus raised some issues regarding the ownership of such data, as well as the implications of advertising and releasing data …

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GIS for Transportation Symposium – April 16-18, 2012

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February 8, 2012

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The GIS-T 2012 Mainframe to Mainstream 25 Years of Progress symposium is being held in Loveland, Colorado from April 16-18 this year. In addition to the forum, workshops will be held on April 15. Sponsored by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), GIS-T aims to bring together transportation professionals, executives, and …

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Twitter Promotes Smarter Transit Planning

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January 30, 2012

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Utilizing geotagged tweets, Eric Fischer creates maps that visualize how people move throughout cities. The result highlights transit corridors that are the most traveled, as well as areas of opportunity in providing transit. The above map illustrates those transit corridors most traveled, with the darker, more pronounced inkblots representing higher travel densities. Fischer’s maps are …

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Creating Partnerships through Online Trip Planning and More with National RTAP’s GTFS Builder Web App

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January 20, 2012

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Webinar Date: Wednesday, February 29, 2012, 1:00pm EDT Webinar Description: National Rural Transit Assistance Program’s (RTAP) General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) Builder web app is a set of tools—simple Excel spreadsheets, checklists, and videos—that will help transit agencies prepare bus route and schedule data files to support the integrated Google Transit trip planner, customizable OpenTripPlanner, …

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BusTime to Service All of New York City

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January 18, 2012

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The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) announced that its open-source BusTime project will go live in Staten Island, and looked to expand coverage to all five boroughs by 2013.  This provides more opportunity for New Yorkers in various parts of New York City to ascertain real-time bus locations. For more about the Staten Island release, please …

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