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NDinfo.org: Building a Regional Transit Travel
Information System
David RipplingerAssociate Research Fellow
Small Urban & Rural Transit CenterUpper Great Plains Transportation Institute
North Dakota State University
October 20, 2008Rural and Intercity Bus Conference
Omaha, Nebraska
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Outline
• Background & Motivation
• Initial Effort• Retooled Project• Current Status• Next Steps• Concluding Remarks
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Background & Motivation
• Value of Information• Transit fare and
schedule information• Economies of scale• Coordinate regional
multimodal trips• Leveraging the
internet• Statewide effort
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Initial Effort• Project began in 2003 • Part of a larger effort• Ambitious in scope– Fare and schedule
information dissemination
– Scheduling, reservation, billing
• Sustainability• Agency updates• Launched in 2004
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New Plan• The motivation was
sound• The plan was too
ambitious• The database was
corrupt• The language was
obsolete• …start from scratch
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First Phase
• Objective: Basic Functionality• Online Searchable Database
-Service information for all 5307 and 5311 providers
-Web design and development-Maintenance and profile updates
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Second Phase
• Maintain the functionality of first phase
• Maintenance and data updates
• Static maps of routes/service areas
• Trip itinerary planning tool– Google Transit– Database
http://ndinfo.org/
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Currently Under Development: Static Maps
Static Map Development Page Link
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Currently Under Development: Google Transit
• Exploring potential as a platform for building multiagency, regional trips
• Related project: Fargo-Moorhead MAT Bus
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Currently Under Development: Database Trip Planner
• Similar to original planned functionality– City-to-City search– Multi-leg trips
• System control
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Next Steps…
• Maintain the existing system
• Maps• City-to-City Search• Reservation/
Scheduling• …not to get ahead
of ourselves
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Concluding Remarks
"inch by inch life's a cinch, yard by yard life is hard"