Transport apps

Transportation

2014, http://MyOpenCity.org

Vitaly Vlasov, Open City Foundation, University ITMO

Civic Hacking

Open Transport Data in Russia

vs.

CIVIC HACKING

Could SOMETHING be so powerful to change:

• Mobility • Society • Culture • People communications • Ecology • Economics • Unemployment

Pedestrian streetsCopenhagen New York

Parkings, traffic jams, street-road network, public transport, etc….

Pedestrian streets drive local business and culture

V.O., Line 6-7 Malaya Sadovaya street

Transport People prefer public transport then cars. Decrease traffic jams.

Ecological If people prefer public transport they use (and buy) cars less. Descrease CO2 emmisions.

Social and culture More pedestrian streets and spaces for rest, street art and culture

Economics and labourMore commercial products and new services

based on open data, more companies and more jobs.

Smart Transportation

http://www.fedstat.ru/indicator/data.do?id=31315&referrerType=0&referrerId=1293271

3,4 B.

2,1 B.

2,4 B. 13,3 B.

bustramtrolleybussubway

Public transportation in Russia (2011)(number of passangers)

Evolution

Big Bang

Data

McKinsey & Company. Open data: Unlocking innovation and performance with liquid information

«The decision to release and support open transit data online has spawned

a new ecosystem of mobile applications» Alexander Howard,

Government 2.0 Washington D.C, correspondent for O’Reilly Media

OPEN DATA IN TRANSPORT

Study included: • Using «Readiness Assessment Tool» World Bank’s

methodology • Interviews with data users and data owners • Study of authorities, data flows in government • 8 strategic recommendations for St.Petersburg’s City Administration

and 4 recommendations for Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation have been done

• Described current situation with Open Transport Data in Russia

WHICH DATA IS READY TO PUBLISH• Public transport data

Organizer of transportation and Committee of Transport • Metro data

Metropolitan Organization • Traffic data

Directorate of Traffic Management • Road-street network information

Committee of Transport Infrastructure • Parking

Committee of Transport Infrastructure • Delay of public transport

Organizer of transportation and Committee of Transport • Traffic restrictions

State Administrative and Technical Inspection

1. Public transport apps

2. E-transport - Aggregator app

3. WikiRoutes - Crowdsourcing app

4. Yandex against traffic jams and navigator

5. Smooth - navigator for people with disabilities

6. Goodroads - measure quality of roads

7. Metro apps

PUBLIC TRANSPORT APPS

!!

http://transport.orgp.spb.ru http://transport.orgp.spb.ru/Portal/transport/api/gtfs

50 000 installs

Data (stops, routes, real-time position of buses, trams, trolleys) published in GTFS (via API) on demand only. Used by 10+ apps.

GTFS - https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/reference

етранспорт.рф

http://wikiroutes.info/

Yandex.Probki

http://smooth.city/City Navigator for people with disabilities

http://goodroads.ru/

http://www.hackathon.spb.ru/

THANK YOU!

Vitaly Vlasov

inxaoc@gmail.com