Pricing public transport
How might we price public transport to balance capacity supply and patronage demand?
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Team Name:
The Diazes
Team Members:
Sustainable Variable Pricing for Public Transportation in the ACT
Project Info
Team Name
The Diazes
Team Members
Manny and 2 other members with unpublished profiles.
Project Description
In this project, we are addressing the challenge of how we might price public transport to balance capacity supply and patronage demand through a tiered approach that considers a base fare and surcharges for distance travelled and time of travel. Our solution requires a unified RTPIS data format that harmonises SIRI data from the buses and GTFS from the light rail.
Data Story
This project will see tiered pricing based on actual public transport utilisation data. In addition, it will involve classic Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) process which can be implemented in any platform. Essentially, it is GTFS + SIRI (where SIRI is converted to GTFS) = unified GTFS feed, or alternatively, it can be SIRI + GTFS (where GTFS is converted to SIRI) = unified SIRI feed via RESTful API. The key is the mapping of data from two disparate sources of different formats to a unified specification.
Team DataSets
Unified GTFS-R Feed for Transport Canberra
Description of Use Illustrates how the SIRI-to-GTFS mapping and conversion can be done.
Canberra Metro Light Rail Transit Feed - Vehicle Updates (Realtime)
Description of Use GTFS-R standard specification.
ACT Government NXTBUS Developer's API Reference
Description of Use This is used as reference and baseline to map SIRI data elements with GTFS-R specifications.
A Transmodel-based XML schema for the Google Transit Feed Specification - With a GTFS / Transmodel comparison
Description of Use Used as reference material in the GTFS-SIRI mapping exercise.
Translation Software: An Alternative to Transit Data Standards
Description of Use Used as reference material in the SIRI-GTFS mapping exercise.
Daily Public Transport Passenger Journeys By Service - ACT
Description of Use Provides information on utilisation of the public transport network in the ACT useful in determining peak hours.
ACT Government Open Data Portal
Description of Use Provides information on available open data in the Australian Capital Territory
Geospatial Data Catalogue
Description of Use Provides information on publicly available geospatial data in the ACT