San Francisco

New Ways of Leveraging Data to Improve Bay Area Transit

Name: New Ways of Leveraging Data to Improve Bay Area Transit
Start: 2016-01-14T20:30:00
End: 2016-01-14T20:30:00
Location: SPUR Urban Center

Lunchtime Forum

12:30 p.m. | Thursday, January 14, 2016

Flickr image courtesy David Lytle

Novel ways now exist to gather useful transit data from both smartphone apps and existing public information. This data has been proven to help provide insights on planning issues, but could it be a cost effective way of improving Bay Area transportation? Come hear from two groups that are working to make such data invaluable to local transit planners.

+ Mike Smith / Transit Time
+ Jonny Simkin / Swyft

Location

SPUR Urban Center

654 Mission Street

San Francisco, CA 94105-4015

[email protected]

Phone

415.781.8726

Admission

Free for SPUR Members
$10 for non-members

Presentation by Smith and Simkin

Refund Policy

Sponsorship payments: Will not be refunded, as sponsorship benefits take effect immediately and are on-going through the date of the event.

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