What's Next For Commuter Rail Data? Developers Event - Next Wednesday, June 15, 6pm
Josh from MBTA
Developers,
I hope all is well and that you are enjoying the warm weather (finally)!
As many of you know, we have been working to provide developers with a pilot feed of real-time commuter rail information over the last few months. Next Wednesday, June 15th at 6pm we will be hosting an MBTA developers event to announce next steps for commuter rail real-time information (hint, hint). The event will be at the State Transportation Building at 10 Park Plaza in Boston. For full details and to RSVP, please click here: http://bit.ly/mzRmzP
While commuter rail is the topic of the event, we will be talking about the current status of our efforts, what is next, and answering your questions. If there are any topics you want to see on the agenda, please reply to this post.
As many of you probably saw today, Google announced that they are now including MBTA real-time data in their transit product. I know some of you may have questions about what this means for you – local developers. While Google certainly has a lot of users, you know our system and riders best! We are more committed than ever to working with 3rd party developers – large and small – to put data in the hands of our riders. Feel free to ask away here if you have any questions!
Looking forward to seeing you next Wednesday!
Best,
Josh
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Joshua K. Robin
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Jim Lerner
I know that you've said before that the Green Line real-time data is
more problematic to gather due to the signaling infrastructure.
Perhaps you could elaborate on what the MBTA's roadmap is to
eventually making this available, as well as a rough timeline.
Thanks!
Jim
Josh from MBTA
Sean
text-based services?
On Jun 8, 8:35 pm, Josh from MBTA <joshua.ro...@eot.state.ma.us>
wrote:
>
> I hope all is well and that you are enjoying the warm weather (finally)!
>
> As many of you know, we have been working to provide developers with a pilot
> feed of real-time commuter rail information over the last few months. Next
> Wednesday, June 15th at 6pm we will be hosting an MBTA developers event to
> announce next steps for commuter rail real-time information (hint, hint). The
> event will be at the State Transportation Building at 10 Park Plaza in
> *
> While commuter rail is the topic of the event, we will be talking about the
> current status of our efforts, what is next, and answering your questions. If
> there are any topics you want to see on the agenda, please reply to this
> post.
>
> As many of you probably saw today, Google announced that they are now
> including MBTA real-time data in their transit product. I know some of you
> may have questions about what this means for you – local developers. While
> Google certainly has a lot of users, you know our system and riders best! We
> are more committed than ever to working with 3rd party developers – large
> and small – to put data in the hands of our riders. Feel free to ask away
> here if you have any questions!
>
> Looking forward to seeing you next Wednesday!
>
> Best,
>
> Josh
>
> ____________________________________
>
Aitkenhead, Paul C.
developer but I follow this forum.
I've been riding the MBTA since 1971. Until the mid 1980's or so, when
wayside signaling still prevailed on all rapid transit lines, departing
platforms of feeder bus routes were sometimes fitted with white signals
indicating approach of trains. Presumably, these were simply repeaters
of the wayside signaling, eliminated white to mean block occupied, dark
otherwise. The purpose was to suggest to drivers of departing bus runs
to tag-up a little before pulling out, and help passengers avoid near
misses.
SAt Lechmere, for example, there was a horizontal sequence of white
lights that indicated the progress of Green Line cars/trains across the
viaduct from Boston. The drivers of outbound 69, 80, 87, and 88 were
supposed to look at them and think about waiting a little, especially if
it were Sunday or other time of infrequent service, or if had been a
long time since the previous train arrival.
This is all gone now, and I experience quite a few near-misses trying to
catch a bus upon arriving at Kendall.
Do the information systems on modern buses receive information in real
time from a central point. Perhaps the concept could come to life again
of telling bus drivers of approaching connections (train or bus) to help
passengers avoid mear-misses.
Jimbo
Do you have any information on when the tracking data will be
available for the other trolley line in the system. . . the Mattapan
trolley? The Mattapan line never goes underground, so if anything,
could the trolleys be fitted with the GPS technology used on all the
buses? I think there are only 10 or so trolleys in service , so if
they're not already being tracked via GPS or some other signaling
system, what are the chances of getting this implemented sooner rather
than later?
- James
Josh from MBTA
Kyle Bechtel
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Daniel Choi
Hi Josh
OpenMBTA starting deploying the Commuter Rail Realtime this afternoon.
The Commuter Rail real-time data seems a little sparse, but for some
stops on the commuter rail routes you can see the realtime arrival
predictions on the commuter rail route maps in our app. The realtime
arrival predictions are marked as "(realtime)" in the pop-ups.
We'll work on improving the interface for this in the next version.
But we're happy to able to start pushing this data out to our users
today.
Dan
On Jun 14, 7:30 pm, Josh from MBTA <joshua.ro...@eot.state.ma.us>
wrote:
>
> I just wanted to remind you about tomorrow's Developer event focused on what