Andrew Byrd

Lead developer, OpenTripPlanner AnalystOpenPlans – Conveyal

PhD candidate, urbanismUniversité Paris-Est

email: abyrd@conveyal.com

OpenTripPlanner (OTP)

- Fully multi-modal journey planner system (e.g. bicycle transfers)- User preferences (speed, bicycle safety, hills...)- Open source license (GNU LGPL)- Developed by OpenPlans (NYC non-profit)- In cooperation with Portland (Oregon) transit authority

Consumes open data, using open standards - OpenStreetMap (OSM)- General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)

Mature product- At feature freeze for version 1.0- Production deployments in several countries, mobile apps

My role: re-purpose journey planning engine for research and urban planning applications

OpenPlans is an NYC-based nonprofit- builds Open Source Civic Infrastructure- urban/built environment advocacy and journalism- transportation team projects focus on open data sources

NYC MTA BusTime- SIRI over JSON feed- statistical modeling / Kalman filter- position-based system to circumvent patent troll

OpenTripPlanner (ride.trimet.org)- replacing costly commercial license renewal- product ownership by public agency- Portland had early GTFS feed + OSM- transposable to any city with GTFS (or equivalent, Netex, etc.)

2013 : OpenPlans Transportation is now Conveyal- Open data driven transportation planning consultancy- Spin-out partnership with ITP Transport Planning (UK)

Upcoming projects- Public transit service modification analysis for Seattle (US)- Washington, DC regional commute planning system- Crowdsourced traffic data, Cebu, Philippines- Infrastructure evaluations in Vietnam, China using open data- Real-time / decentralized journey planning:Netherlands Transport MinistryNoord Brabant pre-commercial procurement (P3ITS) project

Examples of data reuse:- Passenger information systems (e.g. journey planners)

But also:- Infrastructure evaluation- Town planning- Social and economic research

Open transit data is a window into the underlying temporal structure of cities.

Links

OpenTripPlanner analyst demo:http://analyst.opentripplanner.org

OTP Analyst information:http://opentripplanner.com/2012/07/

Portland Regional Multi-modal trip planner:http://ride.trimet.org

Netherlands / Belgium routeplanning demo from OpenOV:http://www.opentripplanner.nl

Code:http://github.com/openplans/OpenTripPlanner

Andrew Byrd email: abyrd@conveyal.com