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Vegan designed Mobile device On 09-Jan-2014, at 22:10, srinivas kodali <iota.kod...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Suvajit, > > I apologize for the delayed response. I wouldn`t call mysore implementation > full yet, there are lot of challenges still in the industry and the > acceptability among commuters. But following data standards and open-access > to data will help the community and researches solve these challenges > effectively. > > GPS logs were being collected in Bangalore buses in offline mode since 2008, > it was a big failure. No one knows what happened to the data. It`s high time > all the transport agencies follow data standards in India. Until these > standards are followed, it`s mere wastage of public money on experiments with > no results. > > Currently the transport agencies don`t have the rights on transport data, the > only reason being the contracting firm holds the rights over data (over > public data!!!!). Atleast this is the current scenario with BEST in Mumbai > and MTC in chennai. > > Regards, > Srinivas > > On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Suvajit <suvajit.sengu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi Srinivas, >> You are right. ITS has been the buzzword in the country in Public >> Transport sector for couple of years after the 12th Planning commission >> suggestions for inclusion of technology to fillip the usage and betterment >> of PT across country. >> >> But, the adoption on ITS is quite low across country due to the fact that >> there are no vendors to implement it the right way. Mysore KSRTC is the only >> full ITS implementation in the country. It is still far in terms of >> usability and usefulness. Visit mitra.ksrtc.in to see how you can track >> buses in realtime. But access to data openly in terms of API or any other >> form does not exists. >> >> Lack of confidence and confusion is prevailing more. Across all level in the >> domain everyone is looking for a successful model which can be referred to. >> So, in this situation,access to open data in terms of routes, schedules, bus >> stops, GPS logs is a bit too much to ask for. Firstly the data acquisition >> has to be in place. No one is talking about data standardization for now. >> >> You have rightly pointed, that push for open access to the ITS data is >> needed through policies and followed by tender contracts. >> An initiative can be taken now for ITS data standardization and access mode >> definition. >> >> >> Regards, >> Suvajit >> >> >> On Monday, December 23, 2013 5:55:29 PM UTC+5:30, srinivas kodali wrote: >>> >>> Hi everyone, >>> >>> This post is regarding policy requirements for open access of transit data >>> in India. >>> >>> The Indian Government is spending significant amount of money in >>> Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) around the country through >>> Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM). Most city road >>> transport corporations are already implementing such systems by tracking >>> city buses with GPS units. Mysore and Delhi are good implementations for >>> these systems apart from pilot implementations across all major cities. >>> >>> But open access of data for public and developers is limited. The >>> contractors for these implementations are fooling the transit organizations >>> by coming up with clauses withholding raw data with them. >>> >>> The planning commission working group for 12th five year plan on transport >>> has recommended an investment of Rs. 8520 crores for ITS and a total of Rs >>> 3,88,308 crores in transport sector by the government ( document attached ). >>> >>> There is a huge requirement for policies and data standards in transit >>> space to save public money and to solve traffic problems. >>> >>> I am not sure how i can contribute in terms of policies to get open access >>> and need some advice in this regard. I have been working on city real-time >>> traffic information as a developer for couple of years. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Srinivas >> >> -- >> For more details about this list >> http://datameet.org/discussions/ >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "datameet" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > For more details about this list > http://datameet.org/discussions/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "datameet" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to datameet+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- For more details about this list http://datameet.org/discussions/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "datameet" group. 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