{"id":679,"date":"2010-06-07T14:53:48","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T14:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/transportsdufutur.ademe.fr\/?p=679"},"modified":"2010-06-07T14:53:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T14:53:48","slug":"were-trying-to-make-buses-sexy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transportsdufutur.ademe.fr\/2010\/06\/were-trying-to-make-buses-sexy.html","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re trying to make buses sexy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbta.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Link to MBTA\"><font color=\"#2361a1\"><strong>Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority<\/strong><\/font><\/a> continued its efforts to engage with developer community by releasing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eot.state.ma.us\/developers\/realtime\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Link to MassDOT\"><font color=\"#2361a1\"><strong>real-time data<\/strong><\/font><\/a> &#8211; with an interesting MAssDot \/ Developpers Relationshion principles, see&#160;<strong><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2010\/06\/RelationshipPrinciples_11-12-2009.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; for 12 additional bus routes. This caps what outgoing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eot.state.ma.us\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Link to MassDOT\"><font color=\"#2361a1\"><strong>MassDOT<\/strong><\/font><\/a> official Chris Dempsey called \u201can incredibly successful year,\u201d which started when the state released MBTA static route and schedule data last summer. Thanks to a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetransitwire.com\/2010\/03\/24\/massdot-announces-app-winners-more-mbta-data-coming\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Link to previous post on The Transit Wire\"><font color=\"#2361a1\"><strong>developer challenges<\/strong><\/font><\/a>,&#160;and a pilot test of real-time data for five routes, MBTA customers now can choose from about a dozen applications that offer route and schedule information and \u2014 in some cases \u2014 real-time arrival predictions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u201cWe\u2019re trying to make buses cool,\u201d said new MBTA general manager Richard Davey. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to make buses sexy.\u201d Speaking at a developers conference in Cambridge Thursday night, Davey said that the MBTA used to be reluctant to share real-time information with customers. \u201cWe need to be a lot more open and frank,\u201d he told the group. The 17 routes for which real-time info is now available serve about a third of the system\u2019s bus customers. Working in partnership with NextBus, the MBTA will share arrival prediction data for&#160;all 185 bus routes by the end of the summer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Developers were encouraged to create software applications and physical installations using a real-time feed for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbta.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Link to MBTA\">Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority<\/a> bus locations and arrival predictions. Currently feeds are available for five routes.&#160;Governor Deval Patrick announced the winners via prerecorded video at the March 24 event:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/catchthebusapp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Link to Catch the Bus\"><font color=\"#810081\">Catch the Bus<\/font><\/a><\/em> provides arrival predictions for iPhones and Android phones <\/div>\n<li>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><em>MBTA Count-down Clock<\/em>,which can be installed in storefronts and other locations, shows countdown information on a clock face <\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>  [youtube http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l-UAujyy45k&#038;hl=fr_FR&#038;fs=1&#038;] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority continued its efforts to engage with developer community by releasing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[17,46,47,52,64,108,110,142],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-assistant-de-mobilite","tag-citoyen","tag-collectivite","tag-connectivite","tag-donnees-reelles","tag-internet","tag-iphone","tag-partage-de-donnees"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/transportsdufutur.ademe.fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/transportsdufutur.ademe.fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/transportsdufutur.ademe.fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transportsdufutur.ademe.fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transportsdufutur.ademe.fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/transportsdufutur.ademe.fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/transportsdufutur.ademe.fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transportsdufutur.ademe.fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/transportsdufutur.ademe.fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}