Blog Posts and News
Civic Technology 2019 Reading
Three interesting articles about Crowdsourcing that appeared in late 2019: 2020 and beyond: 11 predictions at the intersection of technology and citizen engagement in the DemocracySpot blog by Tiago Peixoto and Tom Steinberg. Lots of food for thought. Why...
2020 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting
Two of my papers were accepted for the 2020 TRB Annual Meeting: Reducing Delays on High-density Railway Lines: Crossrail Case Study Giorgio Medeossi and Andrew Nash - Monday January 13 - 10:15 AM- 12:00 PM - Convention Center, 144A The paper describes development of a...
Using Open Source Data to Identify Blocked Bus and Bike Lanes
Alan Bell has used machine learning to develop a program that analyses data from traffic cameras to identify blocked bus and bike lanes. He analysed a section of St. Nicholas Avenue in Manhattan and found that the bike lane was blocked 55% of the time and the bus stop...
Transit Alliance Miami – Metrorail Arrival Data
The Transit Alliance Miami has created a simple graphic display illustrating the time between Miami Metrorail trains (frequency) at the Government Center station. They have taken Metrorail data and displayed it in an easy to understand format. It is an excellent...
TRB Annual Meeting 2018
I’m co-author for three papers at this year’s Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting in Washington DC (8-13 January 2018) …
2018 Updates
Over the holidays I had a chance to update crowdsourced-transport.com with new information. Here are the highlights: Crowdsourced Public Transport page - added: WikiRoutes - site where users can add information about public transport routes and suggest improvements...
MetroQuest Collaboration Application
MetroQuest is an application that provides a suite of tools that can be used to improve the public participation process. The tools support all three types of collaboration: engagement, education and process. It’s been used for many transport projects...
Transit App adds Real Time Information
The Transit App can now collect tracking data from users to help them predict real time arrival information. This is an excellent tool especially in cities where there is no current real time data available. It's also quite helpful because it can be more accurate than...
Making Sense Project
The Making Sense project is funded by the European Commission and has the mission to make advances and experiments in participatory sensing. According to making-sense.eu Making Sense aims to explore how open source software, open source hardware, digital maker...
City Swipe – Santa Monica Downtown
City Swipe is a Tinder-like application designed to collect input on what people like and dislike about downtown Santa Monica (California). It's really simple to use and therefore good for collecting lots of input. Here are the instructions from the project...
Psycho Networker – Music Video
https://youtu.be/8srIP8_InFg Psycho Networker is one of my favourite parody music videos I made during my youTube days. One of the best things was that I sent it to the Wiener Beschwerdechor with my application to join. The choir assistant loved it and always sung the...
Transport Data – Challenges and Opportunities
Getting Smart on Data: Challenges and Opportunities for Transport Authorities from Emerging Data Sources was produced by the Urban Transport Group and presents results of an emerging data catapult meeting held in May 2016. The Urban Transport Group is the UK’s network...