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Creating Partnerships through Online Trip Planning and More with National RTAP’s GTFS Builder Web App Webinar
SAVE THE DATE: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012 1:00—2:00PM (EDT) A webinar from the National Center for Transit Research’s Transit GIS Clearinghouse: Creating Partnerships through Online Trip Planning and More with National RTAP’s GTFS Builder Web App National Rural Transit Assistance Program’s (RTAP) General Transit Feed Specifica-tion (GTFS) Builder web app is a set of tools—simple Excel spreadsheets, checklists, and videos—that will help transit agencies prepare bus route and schedule data files to support the integrated Google Transit trip planner, customizable OpenTripPlan-ner, 511 traveler information systems, and other rider-friendly mobile and on-line software applications. Through shared GTFS data your agency and RTAP managers may see new ways to enhance partnerships, as well as help riders get where they need to go. GTFS Builder provides step-by-step guidance on how to put your transportation in-formation into GTFS … Read entire article »
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NCTR Student Receives APTA Scholarship
Kyle Taniguchi, a Master’s candidate in Civil Engineering at USF and a research assistant at the National Center for Transit Research, was the recipient of an American Public Transportation Foundation scholarship presented to him at the APTA Annual Meeting held in New Orleans during the first week of October 2011. Kyle was asked to help Linda Bohlinger, Chair of the American Public Transportation Foundation and VP and National Director of Management Consulting for HNTB Corporation, … Read entire article »
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USF a Participant in the Transportation Leadership Graduate Certificate Program
The University of South Florida is now a participating university in the Transportation Leadership Graduate Certificate Program. The program offers university-level, graduate coursework covering different areas of transportation taken for credit with the participating universities. Learn more … Read entire article »
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2010 Student of the Year
Martin Akerman is a Graduate Research Assistant at the National Center for Transit Research at CUTR at the University of South Florida (USF) and a Masters student in Management Information Systems and Decision Sciences in the USF College of Business. He has served as lead application developer in several projects during 2009 that focused on innovative uses of the Internet and information technologies in order to increase efficiency, maximize mobility options, and promote safety and security in transit. These projects include “Expanding the Google Transit Data Feed Specification to Support Operations and Planning”, “Survey of Staffing and Administrative Capacity of MPOs” and “Florida Transit Information Emergency Reporting System (TIERS)”. … Read entire article »
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