The best discussion I’ve heard on “The Autonomous Future”

This week’s Talking Headways podcast is a panel from the National Shared Mobility Summit on the hot transport topic of the day– autonomous vehicles. Most conference panels I’ve seen are populated with people who are surely intelligent and great at their jobs, but haven’t honed their ideas down to fit the format. This one is different and well worth a listen.

Pay attention to Finland– I hope to write more on what they are doing soon.

Mobility is Like a Heavy Metal Band

A cheat sheet for Bay Area 511 GTFS-rt feeds.

511.org in the (California) Bay Area provides GTFS and GTFS-Realtime for many of the agencies in the region, including VTA, Caltrain, SF Muni, AC Transit, and a whole lot more.

The docs are available here, but I find the PDF a little dense (and there are some peculiarities), so this is a cheat sheet.

First you need a token sent to your email address.

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GTFS-Realtime, maybe a little easier

GTFS-Realtime is a an efficient means for interchange of large amounts of data on the state of a public transport network. The combination of its efficiency and implementation result in a product that is difficult to understand for newcomers. This is made even worse by the fact that the documentation is intermixed with code.

This repository presents the same information (along with several extensions) as hypertext, which may be easier to understand. See that documentation here.