Inspiration

What it does

  • Shows the mobility opportunities (bus, bikeshare stations) and reach areas (isochrone map) for a user at a given date time and a given location
  • Analyses the accessibility of a city transportation offer (Bus, Metro, Tramway, Bike Share...) and compare it with other cities

How we built it

  • Front End Web App available on every device with a web navigator (Angular)
  • Back End App to pre load closest transportation data
  • Database merging different datasets (GTFS, GBFS...)

Challenges we ran into

  • How to make accessible more than 8 million of stop times data comming from various city representing the public transportation offer ?
  • How to deal with the variants of the GTFS being a bit different between cities even with a standard).
  • How to explore the commute opportunities with various transit system and transport agencies around a given location ?
  • How to visualize accessibility and reachable areas around a position on an interactive map ?
  • How to have a glimpse of the future of the surrounding transportation offer ?

Accomplishments that we're proud of

  • Developping a tool for merging in one database 8 million stop times of various GTFS (Montréal, Longueuil, Gatineau, Laval, Québec, Sherbrooke, AMT Trains)
  • Crafting of an accessibility algorithm computing the commute opportunities with a transit system around a given location
  • Designing the first steps of a front end app and displaying the result of the accessibility algorithm

What's next for HackQC17-8-Euclide

  • Bike-share integration in the accessibility algorithm
  • Cities accessibility analysis
  • Web application development to be continued
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