Building Public Transport Information Services for Downstate New York Travelers and Operators

摘要

Two nearly universal obstacles to developing and sustaining public transport service information are the complexity and lack of standard definitions, as well as the organization and exchange of data between applications that produce and those that use schedules as their core functionality. Regional dataset integration remains a costly and resource-intensive activity regardless of data model and dictionaries promulgated by regional and standards organizations. This paper describes a project initiated by the New York State Department of Transportation to develop a prototype portal framework that manages and enables exchange of schedule data among agencies and effectively uses this multi-provider information as the basis for downstream applications. This paper describes the approach used to collaboratively define a cost-effective framework, tools and guidelines for integrating public transport schedule data.