Bus Hack Night II

Let's talk about bus technologies and ways to use data collected from buses. Doors open at 6:00 with 🍕 courtesy of MapZen (https://mapzen.com/), and speakers starting at 6:30.

Our speakers (http://mvjantzen.com/meetup/bushacknight2.html) are:

• Dave Nesbitt will show how Mapzen can create isochrones for operators, routes, and stops.

• JD Godchaux of NiJeL (http://nijel.org/) will show how they built busturnaround.nyc (http://busturnaround.nyc/) for TransitCenter (http://transitcenter.org/).

• Max Grossman (https://maxgrossman.github.io/) will show how he uses the WMATA API to map bus lateness (https://github.com/maxgrossman/dclatebus).

• Daniel Turse (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mdaturse/) will show the tool he made for using bus location data to explore wait times (https://mdat.shinyapps.io/DCMetroBus_WaitTimes_20170319/).

• James Pizzurro will show how he gave MetroHero Metrobus support (https://dcmetrohero.com/metrobus) using the WMATA (https://developer.wmata.com/docs/services/54763629281d83086473f231/operations/5476362a281d830c946a3d68) and Google Distance Matrix (https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/distance-matrix/) APIs.

• Ryan Westrom and David Miller will discuss the District Mobility Project and bus data used to create districtmobility.org (https://districtmobility.org/).

• Ranjani Prabhakar will show how the Poisson distribution can calculate bus queue lengths for each arrival in a system.

• Michael Schade (http://mvjantzen.com/) will show how he used the Transitland (https://transit.land/) API to build a transit map for hundreds of systems.

• Catherine Vanderwaart has projects about location & farecard data, boarding times and SafeTrack shuttle performance.

• Michael Eichler will do a deep dive into farebox transaction data, and what it’s telling us.

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Many thanks to all our sponsors: MapZen (https://mapzen.com/) for providing the food, WMATA (https://www.wmata.com/) for letting us use their venue, and, as always, to everyone at Mobility Lab (http://mobilitylab.org/).

Bus Hack Night I (https://www.meetup.com/Transportation-Techies/events/167251552/) was way back in April, 2014. Pix here (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mvjantzen/tags/bushacknight).

Our hashtag is #bushacknight (https://twitter.com/hashtag/bushacknight). As always, stay tuned to @techiesdc (https://twitter.com/techiesdc) for updates.