Sustainable Variable Pricing for Public Transportation in the ACT

Project Info

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Team Name


The Diazes


Team Members


Manny and 2 other members with unpublished profiles.

Project Description


In this project, we are addressing the challenge of how we might price public transport to balance capacity supply and patronage demand through a tiered approach that considers a base fare and surcharges for distance travelled and time of travel. Our solution requires a unified RTPIS data format that harmonises SIRI data from the buses and GTFS from the light rail.


Data Story


This project will see tiered pricing based on actual public transport utilisation data. In addition, it will involve classic Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) process which can be implemented in any platform. Essentially, it is GTFS + SIRI (where SIRI is converted to GTFS) = unified GTFS feed, or alternatively, it can be SIRI + GTFS (where GTFS is converted to SIRI) = unified SIRI feed via RESTful API. The key is the mapping of data from two disparate sources of different formats to a unified specification.


Evidence of Work

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Team DataSets

Unified GTFS-R Feed for Transport Canberra

Description of Use Illustrates how the SIRI-to-GTFS mapping and conversion can be done.

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Canberra Metro Light Rail Transit Feed - Vehicle Updates (Realtime)

Description of Use GTFS-R standard specification.

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ACT Government NXTBUS Developer's API Reference

Description of Use This is used as reference and baseline to map SIRI data elements with GTFS-R specifications.

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A Transmodel-based XML schema for the Google Transit Feed Specification - With a GTFS / Transmodel comparison

Description of Use Used as reference material in the GTFS-SIRI mapping exercise.

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Translation Software: An Alternative to Transit Data Standards

Description of Use Used as reference material in the SIRI-GTFS mapping exercise.

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Daily Public Transport Passenger Journeys By Service - ACT

Description of Use Provides information on utilisation of the public transport network in the ACT useful in determining peak hours.

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ACT Government Open Data Portal

Description of Use Provides information on available open data in the Australian Capital Territory

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Geospatial Data Catalogue

Description of Use Provides information on publicly available geospatial data in the ACT

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Challenge Entries

Pricing public transport

How might we price public transport to balance capacity supply and patronage demand?

Go to Challenge | 10 teams have entered this challenge.