Date: January 9, 2018
Venue: McKinsey & Company
Presenter: Jesse Coleman is the lead of Toronto Transportation Services’ Big Data Innovation Team, and Raphael Dumas is a research analyst on the team. The team is focused and data science and analytics and was formed to leverage emerging data collection and analysis technologies to support and evaluate policies and programs to improve the user experience on city streets.
Presentation: The King Street Transit Pilot aims to improve the reliability, speed, and capacity of the King Streetcar, the City’s busiest surface transit route, by giving priority to streetcars over private vehicles. Jesse and Raphael presented audiences with how the Big Data and Innovation team can use new data collection and analysis technologies to enable a more rigorous and transparent evaluation of pilot projects in the city.
Highlights:
- Some of the areas that the Big Data Innovation Team are focused on: practical and repeatable analysis of transportation data, emerging and underused data sources, open source software
- King Street Pilot had a host of primary and secondary questions which guided the data collection and measurement efforts
- Evolving data collection methods to include new technologies such as: GPS, permanent video-based counters, and bluetooth readers
- Making dashboards public and open sourced to outside analysis for a more open and transparent pilot
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Evolving beyond traditional measurements to add a host of data sources: GPS, video counters, bluetooth readers, etc promote more #OpenData and #transparency @DumasRaphael #KingStreetPilot #TTC #civictech pic.twitter.com/rNSOTPjX8o
— Civic Tech Toronto (@CivicTechTO) January 10, 2018
The Big Data Innovation Team and @DumasRaphael sharing some new tweaks including public interactive traffic volume dashboard. Help truly make pilots accountable and #Transparent #KingStreetPilot #civictech pic.twitter.com/0cM11LosVa
— Civic Tech Toronto (@CivicTechTO) January 10, 2018
Announcements:
- Sarah Climenhaga – running for mayor and looking for volunteers invested in innovative approaches to city building and urban transportation // Sclimenhaga@sympatico.ca // @Stclimenhaga on Twitter // SarahClimenhaga.ca // You Tube: Sarah Climenhaga
Project Pitches:
| Project | Lead(s) | Description / Needs |
| Civic Tech 101 | Zaid | If it’s your first time, please come. We want to meet you all. |
| CodeAcross 2018 Planning | Alex | Hackathon planning for Code Across 2018 on March 3 at TPL. Challenge wrangling tonight. |
| Bike Parking | Jake | Prepping MVP. Looking for: Developers, Designers, Researchers, Data Analysts, Communicators |
| TTC Subway Dashboard Project | Raphael | If we remind people about the good times with public transit, they might be happy? |
| Law and Design Team | Avery | Improving access, usability of legal information. Looking for: |
| Women and Colour | Erin | Reviewing documentation and planning for launch entirely remotely in our slack channel #womenandcolor.
What we need: Developers (Javascript) to build the website, social media and comms people to publicize the launch in 2018 www.womenandcolor.com |
Participants: 82