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NDinfo.org: Building a Regional Transit Travel Information System

NDinfo.org: Building a Regional Transit Travel Information System. October 20, 2008 Rural and Intercity Bus Conference Omaha, Nebraska. David Ripplinger Associate Research Fellow Small Urban & Rural Transit Center Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute North Dakota State University.

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NDinfo.org: Building a Regional Transit Travel Information System

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  1. NDinfo.org: Building a Regional Transit Travel Information System October 20, 2008 Rural and Intercity Bus Conference Omaha, Nebraska David Ripplinger Associate Research Fellow Small Urban & Rural Transit Center Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute North Dakota State University

  2. Outline • Background & Motivation • Initial Effort • Retooled Project • Current Status • Next Steps • Concluding Remarks

  3. Background & Motivation • Value of Information • Transit fare and schedule information • Economies of scale • Coordinate regional multimodal trips • Leveraging the internet • Statewide effort

  4. Initial Effort • Project began in 2003 • Part of a larger effort • Ambitious in scope • Fare and schedule information dissemination • Scheduling, reservation, billing • Sustainability • Agency updates • Launched in 2004

  5. New Plan • The motivation was sound • The plan was too ambitious • The database was corrupt • The language was obsolete • …start from scratch

  6. First Phase • Objective: Basic Functionality • Online Searchable Database -Service information for all 5307 and 5311 providers -Web design and development -Maintenance and profile updates

  7. Second Phase • Maintain the functionality of first phase • Maintenance and data updates • Static maps of routes/service areas • Trip itinerary planning tool • Google Transit • Database http://ndinfo.org/

  8. Currently Under Development: Static Maps Static Map Development Page Link

  9. Currently Under Development: Google Transit • Exploring potential as a platform for building multiagency, regional trips • Related project: Fargo-Moorhead MAT Bus

  10. Currently Under Development: Database Trip Planner • Similar to original planned functionality • City-to-City search • Multi-leg trips • System control

  11. Next Steps… • Maintain the existing system • Maps • City-to-City Search • Reservation/ Scheduling • …not to get ahead of ourselves

  12. Concluding Remarks "inch by inch life's a cinch, yard by yard life is hard"

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