What I want to do I want to model a real-time, vehicle-tracking system that would be accessible...
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| 3 CURRENT | ajawitz |
March 26, 2014 15:27
| about 10 years ago
What I want to doI want to model a real-time, vehicle-tracking system that would be accessible for small cities and rural regions through a combination of common, off-the-shelf components and customized open source software. The project is a collaboration between Bath CityBus, a municipal transit service in Bath, Maine and Code for Maine, a local "Brigade" affiliate of Code for America. A full project wiki documenting research and planning efforts since 2012 can be found at http://code4maine.org/opentransitprojects/. Planning and Research efforts have thus far fallen under two distinct categories. Open Transit Software (i.e optimizing well-developed resources like OpenTripPlanner, OneBusAway etc... for rural transit applications) Open Transit Hardware (i.e vehicle location transmitters, GSM, RTL-SDR and OpenWRT mesh wireless configurations, Raspberry Pi-powered Transit Displays, RFID implementations, e-bikes etc...) While extensive documentation already exists for the overall project at www.code4maine.org/opentransitprojects and for the efforts to build an open source vehicle tracker at www.openvehicletracker.org, the research note format will allow us to explore certain areas in more detail. Unless otherwise necessary, the purpose of this wiki will be to document research notes and applications related to the Open Transit Hardware category. Research AreasMesh NetworkingWhy I'm interestedReal-time transit tracking has become a common amenity in most urban transit systems. Having access to real-time feeds, released in an open format known as "GTFS", makes riding public transit more convenient by allowing riders to plan their connections more accuratately while eliminating the uncertainty of waiting at a cold bus stop.
In rural regions and small cities where transit services are often dispatched by request and/or are limited to only a few trips a day, such information would be more than an added amenity but rather could decide whether or not one makes it to work, medical appointments, grocery shopping etc... |
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| 2 | ajawitz |
March 22, 2014 17:50
| about 10 years ago
What I want to doI want to model a real-time, vehicle-tracking system that would be accessible for small cities and rural regions through a combination of common, off-the-shelf components and customized open source software. The project is a collaboration between Bath CityBus, a municipal transit service in Bath, Maine and Code for Maine, a local "Brigade" affiliate of Code for America. A full project wiki documenting research and planning efforts since 2012 can be found at http://code4maine.org/opentransitprojects/. Planning and Research efforts have thus far fallen under two distinct categories. Open Transit Software (i.e optimizing well-developed resources like OpenTripPlanner, OneBusAway etc... for rural transit applications) Open Transit Hardware (i.e vehicle location transmitters, GSM, RTL-SDR and OpenWRT mesh wireless configurations, Raspberry Pi-powered Transit Displays, RFID implementations, e-bikes etc...) While extensive documentation already exists for the overall project at www.code4maine.org/opentransitprojects and for the efforts to build an open source vehicle tracker at www.openvehicletracker.org, the research note format will allow us to explore certain areas in more detail. Unless otherwise necessary, the purpose of this wiki will be to document research notes and applications related to the Open Transit Hardware category. Research AreasMesh Networking-The fact that most public sector vehicle fleets operate in fixed service areas coupled with limited GSM availability in certain rural areas possibly makes Mesh Networking deployments more feasible as a means of tracking location. - OpenWRT-based Commotion Wireless, Tidepools, Serval Mesh, etc... have developed high performance Wi-Fi firmware with ranges of up to 9 miles and can be flashed on affordable, off-the-shelf modems. - The new Arduino Yun is also based on OpenWRT and could potentially be configured as a Mesh Node with GPS inputs - The upcoming Arduino TRE potentially opens up new capabilities far beyond those available until now. - Possibility of combining WiFi Mesh Platform with other radio formats such as new work emerging in the field of Software Defined Radio through the use of cheap USB receivers called RTL-SDR including usage in vehicle position reporting Why I'm interestedReal-time transit tracking has become a common amenity in most urban transit systems. Having access to real-time feeds, released in an open format known as "GTFS", makes riding public transit more convenient by allowing riders to plan their connections more accuratately while eliminating the uncertainty of waiting at a cold bus stop.
In rural regions and small cities where transit services are often dispatched by request and/or are limited to only a few trips a day, such information would be more than an added amenity but rather could decide whether or not one makes it to work, medical appointments, grocery shopping etc... |
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| 1 | ajawitz |
March 22, 2014 17:49
| about 10 years ago
What I want to doI want to model a real-time, vehicle-tracking system that would be accessible for small cities and rural regions through a combination of common, off-the-shelf components and customized open source software. The project is a collaboration between Bath CityBus, a municipal transit service in Bath, Maine and Code for Maine, a local "Brigade" affiliate of Code for America. A full project wiki documenting research and planning efforts since 2012 can be found at http://code4maine.org/opentransitprojects/. Planning and Research efforts have thus far fallen under two distinct categories. Open Transit Software (i.e optimizing well-developed resources like OpenTripPlanner, OneBusAway etc... for rural transit applications) Open Transit Hardware (i.e vehicle location transmitters, GSM, RTL-SDR and OpenWRT mesh wireless configurations, Raspberry Pi-powered Transit Displays, RFID implementations, e-bikes etc...) While extensive documentation already exists for the overall project at www.code4maine.org/opentransitprojects and for the efforts to build an open source vehicle tracker at www.openvehicletracker.org, the research note format will allow us to explore certain areas in more detail. Unless otherwise necessary, the purpose of this wiki will be to document research notes and applications related to the Open Transit Hardware category. Research Areas####Mesh Networking -The fact that most public sector vehicle fleets operate in fixed service areas coupled with limited GSM availability in certain rural areas possibly makes Mesh Networking deployments more feasible as a means of tracking location. - OpenWRT-based Commotion Wireless, Tidepools, Serval Mesh, etc... have developed high performance Wi-Fi firmware with ranges of up to 9 miles and can be flashed on affordable, off-the-shelf modems. - The new Arduino Yun is also based on OpenWRT and could potentially be configured as a Mesh Node with GPS inputs - The upcoming Arduino TRE potentially opens up new capabilities far beyond those available until now. - Possibility of combining WiFi Mesh Platform with other radio formats such as new work emerging in the field of Software Defined Radio through the use of cheap USB receivers called RTL-SDR including usage in vehicle position reporting Why I'm interestedReal-time transit tracking has become a common amenity in most urban transit systems. Having access to real-time feeds, released in an open format known as "GTFS", makes riding public transit more convenient by allowing riders to plan their connections more accuratately while eliminating the uncertainty of waiting at a cold bus stop.
In rural regions and small cities where transit services are often dispatched by request and/or are limited to only a few trips a day, such information would be more than an added amenity but rather could decide whether or not one makes it to work, medical appointments, grocery shopping etc... |
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| 0 | ajawitz |
March 21, 2014 22:38
| about 10 years ago
What I want to doI want to model a real-time, vehicle-tracking system that would be accessible for small cities and rural regions through a combination of common, off-the-shelf components and customized open source software. The project is a collaboration between Bath CityBus, a municipal transit service in Bath, Maine and Code for Maine, a local "Brigade" affiliate of Code for America. A full project wiki documenting research and planning efforts since 2012 can be found at http://code4maine.org/opentransitprojects/. Planning and Research efforts have thus far fallen under two distinct categories. Open Transit Software (i.e optimizing well-developed resources like OpenTripPlanner, OneBusAway etc... for rural transit applications) Open Transit Hardware (i.e vehicle location transmitters, GSM, RTL-SDR and OpenWRT mesh wireless configurations, Raspberry Pi-powered Transit Displays, RFID implementations, e-bikes etc...) While extensive documentation already exists for the overall project at www.code4maine.org/opentransitprojects and for the efforts to build an open source vehicle tracker at www.openvehicletracker.org, the research note format will allow us to explore certain areas in more detail. Unless otherwise necessary, the purpose of this wiki will be to document research notes and applications related to the Open Transit Hardware category. Research Areas####Mesh Networking -The fact that most public sector vehicle fleets operate in fixed service areas coupled with limited GSM availability in certain rural areas possibly makes Mesh Networking deployments more feasible as a means of tracking location. - OpenWRT-based Commotion Wireless, Tidepools, Serval Mesh, etc... have developed high performance Wi-Fi firmware with ranges of up to 9 miles and can be flashed on affordable, off-the-shelf modems. - The new Arduino Yun is also based on OpenWRT and could potentially be configured as a Mesh Node with GPS inputs - The upcoming Arduino TRE potentially opens up new capabilities far beyond those available until now. - Possibility of combining WiFi Mesh Platform with other radio formats such as new work emerging in the field of Software Defined Radio through the use of cheap USB receivers called RTL-SDR including usage in vehicle position reporting Why I'm interestedReal-time transit tracking has become a common amenity in most urban transit systems. Having access to real-time feeds, released in an open format known as "GTFS", makes riding public transit more convenient by allowing riders to plan their connections more accuratately while eliminating the uncertainty of waiting at a cold bus stop.
In rural regions and small cities where transit services are often dispatched by request and/or are limited to only a few trips a day, such information would be more than an added amenity but rather could decide whether or not one makes it to work, medical appointments, grocery shopping etc... |
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