1. Andrew Byrd
Lead developer, OpenTripPlanner Analyst
OpenPlans – Conveyal
PhD candidate, urbanism
Université Paris-Est
email: abyrd@conveyal.com

2. OpenTripPlanner (OTP)
- Fully multi-modal journey planner system (e.g. bicycle transfers)
- User preferences (speed, bicycle safety, hills...)
- Open source license (GNU LGPL)
- Developed by OpenPlans (NYC non-profit)
- In cooperation with Portland (Oregon) transit authority
Consumes open data, using open standards
- OpenStreetMap (OSM)
- General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS)
Mature product
- At feature freeze for version 1.0
- Production deployments in several countries, mobile apps
My role: re-purpose journey planning engine for research and
urban planning applications

5. OpenPlans is an NYC-based nonprofit
- builds Open Source Civic Infrastructure
- urban/built environment advocacy and journalism
- transportation team projects focus on open data sources
NYC MTA BusTime
- SIRI over JSON feed
- statistical modeling / Kalman filter
- position-based system to circumvent patent troll
OpenTripPlanner (ride.trimet.org)
- replacing costly commercial license renewal
- product ownership by public agency
- Portland had early GTFS feed + OSM
- transposable to any city with GTFS (or equivalent, Netex, etc.)

6. 2013 : OpenPlans Transportation is now Conveyal
- Open data driven transportation planning consultancy
- Spin-out partnership with ITP Transport Planning (UK)
Upcoming projects
- Public transit service modification analysis for Seattle (US)
- Washington, DC regional commute planning system
- Crowdsourced traffic data, Cebu, Philippines
- Infrastructure evaluations in Vietnam, China using open data
- Real-time / decentralized journey planning:
Netherlands Transport Ministry
Noord Brabant pre-commercial procurement (P3ITS) project

7. Examples of data reuse:
- Passenger information systems (e.g. journey planners)
But also:
- Infrastructure evaluation
- Town planning
- Social and economic research

14. Open transit data is a window into the underlying temporal
structure of cities.

19. Links
OpenTripPlanner analyst demo:
http://analyst.opentripplanner.org
OTP Analyst information:
http://opentripplanner.com/2012/07/
Portland Regional Multi-modal trip planner:
http://ride.trimet.org
Netherlands / Belgium routeplanning demo from OpenOV:
http://www.opentripplanner.nl
Code:
http://github.com/openplans/OpenTripPlanner
Andrew Byrd email:
abyrd@conveyal.com