I've been tracking public transport data in NZ for a couple of years now, and have now built a site for its display. Public transport is quite a contentious issue here; what's better than to inform decisions with data?<p>I’m posting this to ask some switched on people what the best step going forward for would be for this project. If someone was building a similar site for your city, what would you want to see?<p><a href="https://github.com/allister-grange/missinglink">https://github.com/allister-grange/missinglink</a>
A couple of casual thoughts to get the ball rolling.<p>1) This is really cool work. I did note that at this stage the key/only metric involved seems to be Time, unless my quick look missed something. By itself, isolated, I'm sure quite a few conclusions can be drawn from that data, but even moreso, I think that collation with other key data areas such as passenger numbers, traffic intensity data, even things like weather - and I'm sure, plenty of other things I've not thought of - could greatly bolster the data's analytical potential.<p>2) This is subjective of course - but something feels off (by which I mean, not an entirely neutral presentation of data) to me, about the presentation's critical or punitive framing : things like the celebratory "leader board" of largest delays, complete with gold medal emoji, or the site's name seeming a sort of play on "where's that late bus?!".
It seems right that a night bus and ferries are more able to keep to time.<p>The thing’s holding up day busses are traffic and with trains it is the cascade effect of problems when rerouting options are limited.