[Colorado-talk] CUTR Webcast April 17: ...Rapidly Expanding Mobile Transit Apps to New Cities

[Everett Gavel]

Thought some might be interested in this webinar. 
This expanding app system might be nationwide one 
day, who knows?
-Everett


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Subject: CUTR Webcast April 17: OneBusAway 
Multi-region - Rapidly Expanding Mobile Transit 
Apps to New Cities

Please join us for a FREE CUTR webcast OneBusAway 
Multi-region - Rapidly Expanding Mobile Transit 
Apps to New Cities on Thursday, April 17, 2014 
from 12 to 1PM (ET) This webcast is hosted by the 
Center for Urban Transportation 
Research<http://www.cutr.usf.edu/> at the 
University of South Florida.

The link to join the webcast and the toll-free 
phone number are below.

About the Webcast:
Real-time transit information offers many benefits 
to transit riders, including reduced wait times 
and increased customer satisfaction. However, 
offering real-time transit services has been 
challenging for many transit agencies. While 
mobile apps have emerged as a preferred 
dissemination method for real-time information, it 
is typically cost-prohibitive for transit agencies 
to fund custom development of native mobile apps 
for all popular smartphone platforms. Third-party 
developers can offer services if an agency openly 
shares real-time data, but these individuals are 
volunteers whose priorities and deadlines may not 
be the same as the agency's. As a result, few 
cities have full app portfolios that cover all 
smartphone platforms. This paper presents the 
OneBusAway multi-region project, a collaborative 
effort that is enabling the rapid expansion of 
native mobile transit apps to new cities. 
OneBusAway is an open-source transit information 
system that has provided real-time transit 
services to the Puget Sound, WA area since 2008. 
The new OneBusAway multi-region feature expands 
the coverage of the existing Android, iPhone, 
Windows Phone, and Windows 8 apps for OneBusAway 
to new cities including Tampa and Atlanta. The 
multi-region system architecture, collaborative 
design and development process, and lessons 
learned from this ground-breaking project are 
discussed. The fundamental shift from proprietary 
to open-source software in the transit industry 
that has made this type of project possible is 
also examined.

About the Presenter:
Sean J. Barbeau, Ph.D., Principal Mobile Software 
Architect for R&D at the Center for Urban 
Transportation Research at the University of South 
Florida

Dr. Sean J. Barbeau is the Principal Mobile 
Software Architect for R&D at the Center for Urban 
Transportation Research at the University of South 
Florida. Dr. Barbeau has served as the PI for 
multiple research projects investigating 
intelligent software systems for mobile phones. He 
has over 40 peer-reviewed papers and conference 
presentations and was a member of an international 
Expert Group which developed a Java-based software 
standard for location-aware mobile phones. Dr. 
Barbeau has 9 patented inventions and another 8 
patents pending in the area of location-aware 
technology. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Computer 
Science from USF as well as a Ph.D. in Computer 
Science and Engineering from USF.


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