Paula Syrjärinne October 2014 BUS LOCATION HISTORY DATA

DATA CONTENT • Tampere public transportation bus locations from September 3 – October 6 2014 (Sunday September 7 is missing) • Stored in csv-files • 1 csv-file / day • ~500MB / day • Data is collected from SIRI JSON feed • Sampling frequency typically 1Hz, but sometimes slower, especially during peak traffic hours

DATA

DATA FIELDS Field name Example Unit line 1L timestamp 1412110786. 006 seconds direction 1 dvjr 2240 lat 61.47814 Decimal degrees lon 23.79548 Decimal degrees bearing 92 Integer degrees delay 44 Seconds origin Keskustori G destination Lintukalliontie vehicle TKL_028

ISSUES WORTH KNOWING • Missing journeys and parts of journeys • Location reporting before the journey started and after the journey ended • Location reporting during transfer drive • Observation lines with empty origin and destination fields

USEFUL DATA SOURCES • GTFS • Routes • Bus stop locations • Bus stop sequences • Schedules • Exceptional dates • Tampere transit map and online schedules • Other open data from the city of Tampere • Map data, e.g. OpenStreetMap

WHAT TO DO WITH BUS LOCATION HISTORY DATA? • Compute data-based schedules and bus stop locations • Analyse travel times • Evaluate bus schedule quality and route planner reliability • Analyse traffic fluency • Analyse driving speeds at different roads • Detect exceptional routes due to e.g. road constructions • Observe waiting times in traffic lights

CONTACT INFORMATION • Paula.Syrjarinne@staff.uta.fi • Also check out: http://trafficdata.sis.uta.fi/