2023 TRB Annual Meeting Transit Data Workshop

Open-Source Tools for Transit Data: Hands-On Code for Interactive Visualizations

Date/Time: Sunday, Jan 8 1:30 PM to 4:30 PM EST
Place: Convention Center 147A

Take a pre-workshop quiz to help us plan

Pre-requisites needed for the workshop

• a laptop
• running python or R+R Studio
• with optional git install + GitHub account

[or]

• an ability to take notes and follow along for later reference

Workshop agenda

Time	Item
1:30 PM	Welcome and Introductions; “pre-test”
1:45 PM	Intro to Transit Data [Lind]
	acronyms; people data
	challenges with transit data
2:00 PM	EXERCISE 1: Aggregation
2:20 PM	Why code? [Eichler]
2:45 PM	EXERCISE 2: Clean & Join
3:15 PM	Sharing Code: GitHub repos [Chan]
3:30 PM	EXERCISE 3: Visualization
4:00 PM	Transit data standards: TIDES [Reid]
4:15 PM	DISCUSSION: killer apps & code sharing

Exercises

• APC How is ridership looking?
• AVL & GTFS Plans, meet operations
• AFC Getting creative with passenger flows

Materials will be provided

• code, in the form of a repository for each case study
• data, in the form of a downloadable dataset appropriate to the Code
• output, where appropriate, in the form of publicly shared resources
• Fun, with data