“There’s no future that doesn’t have ambient computing or voice activation… none.” Mark Cuban. Open data and voice interfaces will both have growing roles in transportation. As a consultant in the ITS field, I’ve always felt that there was great value in understanding multiple perspectives, from a high level down through implementation. With that in […]
The announcement by Uber that they will provide free time of day travel time data could be a game-changer for free and open routing and planning tools, such as Valhalla and Mapzen’s isochrone tool. These tools use GTFS schedule data as a decent surrogate for transit travel times, and calculate walk and bike times, but […]
The theme of the October 2015 issue of Thinking Highways magazine is data, and it includes a think piece I authored on open traffic data. In the few short weeks after I wrote the piece, there were a couple of interesting announcements on the topic. While not open to other parties, TomTom is partnering with […]