Dublinked Innovation Network Transport Event - Peter Cranny, NTA

1. www . TransportForIreland . ie
public
transport
Data event
Peter Cranny – National Journey Planner
Project Manager
Thursday 6th December 2012
Tallaght Stadium

2. Public transport
Data
everybody!

3. eGovernment
2012 -2015
ACTION 21
All public bodies will publish appropriate data in
machine-readable formats to facilitate re-use.

4. re-use of
public sector information
DIRECTIVE 2003/98/EC on the
Article 12
p u b l i c s e c t o r b o d i e s s h o u l d m a ke
d o c u m e n t s av a i l a b l e i n a t i m e f r a m e t h a t
a l l ow s t h e i r f u l l e c o n o m i c p o t e n t i a l t o
be exploited.

5. The
INSPIRE Directive
c re a t e s t h e f r a m ew o r k f o r s p a t i a l i n f o r m a t i o n
t o b e m a d e av a i l a b l e i n a s t a n d a rd i s e d
e l e c t ro n i c e nv i ro n m e n t t o f a c i l i t a t e t h e s h a r i n g
of information.

6. Why wait to
be asked?

7. what about data provenance?
http://metadata.nationaltransport.ie/geonetwork/srv/en/main.home

8. www . TransportForIreland . ie
Stops
PT
Gazetteer
Schedules
NPTDb

10. Journey
Planner Servers
Dynamic data
Integration platform
Realtime feeds
NPTDb Application
Server
Data Manager
NPTDb Database
Server
Imported Data
Stops
Bus Eireann
Dublin Bus
Irish Rail
LUAS
NavTeQ
GeoDirectory

11. what are we
publishing?
NPTDb
• transit stops
• route maps
• pt schedules

12. Transit stops
Va l i d a t e s t o N a P TA N
2.4 schema
ITM + WGS84
XML, CSV & shpfile

13. route maps
ITM + WGS84
shpfile

14. Schedules
GTFS
TransXchange
WGS84
XML
Tr a n s X ch a n g e a l s o
C s v.

15. What
Can
You
Do with PT data?

16. First law of geography
Ev e r y t h i n g i s re l a t e d t o ev e r y t h i n g e l s e ,
b u t n e a r t h i n g s a re m o re re l a t e d t h a n
d i s tant t h i n g s … w a l d o t o b l e r 1 9 7 0
T h e l i ke l i h o o d o f s o m e o n e a c c es s i n g a
s e r v i c e i s i nv e rs el y p ro p o r t i o n a l to t h e
“co s t ” o f t rav e l t o t h a t s e r v i c e

17. Accessibility
analysis

18. journey times

20. GDA
Population
IFSC
100.00
90.00
84.24
80.00
% population
access to
% population of GDA within 10 minute timebands of IFSC
76.27
70.00
68.94
60.00
57.12
50.00
39.91
40.00
30.00
28.03
20.00
10.00
14.08
0.95
5.00
10
20
0.00
30
40
50
60
minutes
70
80
90

21. Gap /
opportunity

22. Where is
The data?

23. Data is all very well, but
y o u n e e d s o f t w a re !
Free software
• XMLFox
• Tatuk GIS
• Quantum GIS
Trial Versions
• Liquid XML
• XML Spy
• Accession GIS
• Mapinfo / ArcMap

24. Download the app!

25. Peter Cranny
Peter.cranny@nationaltransport.ie