Transport Accessibility in Birmingham

This is a Birmingham news story, published by Open Innovations, that relates primarily to Tom Forth news.

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Transport Accessibility in 2024 â How did we get here?

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In 2017 , Tom Forth , working with ODI Leeds and Open Transport North, started tracking every bus in Birmingham for a year .

They tracked the buses in real time; around 40 million departures and 16 GB of data as of January 2019 .

They then published a blog titled âBirmingham is a small cityâ. At peak time (8am-9am) Birminghamâs effective population is just 0.9 m, less than half the population that the OECD use.

Weâre currently writing part 2 of this blog, which will be a technical blog explaining how we match the buses to the timetable to create a version of the timetable for buses that actually ran.

The code is published on the GitHub for this project. Note that we are still making small tweaks to our code as we debug with real-time data.

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