transit-datathon

notes and resources from the transit datathon 10/11+10/28 in SF

Projects + Prototypes

Bicycle Data Mapping
BART Entry/Exit by hour for each station per day
BART entry and exit for each station - October 2012

Data

One week of nextbus realtime data

AC Transit
SF MUNI
A collection of xml files for each minute. This data was collected from the nextbus API

One month of BART entries and exits for all stations

Entries
Exits
Entries and exits by hour
There is a file for each BART station, the file contains a JSON array of counts of entries or exits with a date and time by the minute.

Collection of BART data

BART strike hackathon

Collection of MUNI data (In this repo)

A collection of files related to SFMTA, including presenatations and data from MUNI

RunReport - Reports coming from SF MUNI, including data requested that's not usually published.
5-1-14 Equity Strategy ppt.pdf - Report on service equity, demographics and socioeconomic status
NextBusXMLFeed.pdf - Description and specification of the NextBus API
RPP_Saturation - Parking permit program data, collected manually from a public meeting.
SFMTA Quarterly Report (Jul-Sep 2013).pdf - Overall report on the SF MTA
SFpark_Pilot_Project_Evaluation.pdf - SF Park has real-time time meter data, this document explains the project along with thorough analysis. source
StopInformation.xls - Directory of all bus stops in SF, their location and the lines that serve them
Strategic Plan Metrics Report - February 2014 FINAL.pdf - Comprehensive list of metrics on various aspects of the MUNI
Strategic Plan Progress Report - February 2014 FINAL.pdf - Presentation of how MUNI is progressing against the metrics.
TEP-CAC3-18-14_v2.pdf - Transit Effectiveness Project, an attempt to optimize service. more info
The Muni historic vehicle collection_060514.pdf - Index of all the types of subway/cable cars. more info
Track Repair Work at Cameron Beach Yard.pdf - Example of how complicated rail yards can be. A lot of data of this sort is not digitized, and the railway switches are manual.

Collecting / Requesting Data from SF MUNI

First course of action should be to call 311 and see if you can find out who in Transit Operations you should talk to about a certain kind of data. People can be helpful. If you are having trouble being friendly, you can resort to a "Sunshine request" (there is law requiring public data to be made available by request), call 3-1-1 and say you want to make a sunshine request.