DB4IoT News

INRIX Trip Reports vs. INRIX Trip Paths

By |May 30th, 2019|

Three years ago, INRIX introduced INRIX Trips, also known as INRIX Trip Reports. INRIX Trip Reports provides accurate insight into the trips people take, including where they begin and end their journeys and all the waypoints in between. There are three types of points in the INRIX Trip Reports data; origin points, waypoints and destination points. Trips start at an origin point, generate data at a number of waypoints and end at a destination point. The INRIX Trip Reports data can be used to analyze movement patterns, generate origin/destination matrices and perform select link analysis in tools such as DB4IoT […]

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NYC Motor Vehicle Collisions Data in DB4IoT

By |April 10th, 2019|

The NYC Open Data portal provides an interesting data set from the NYPD that is a breakdown of every motor vehicle collision in NYC by location and injury. Each record represents a collision in NYC by city, borough, precinct and cross street. This data can be used by the public to see how dangerous/safe intersections are in NYC.

We imported the data into the DB4IoT analytics platform to visualize the six-year period from July 2012 through June 2018. The following series of images detail the results. Public data sets such as this can be combined in DB4IoT with transportation, traffic, smart-city […]

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Making Better Transit Planning Decisions by Identifying ITS Data Errors

By |April 13th, 2018|

Over the last few decades public transit agencies have installed CAD/AVL systems on their buses for Computer Aided Dispatch and Automatic Vehicle Location. CAD/AVL systems capture data measurements of the location of the bus, number of passengers, delay, speed and many other variables, often as frequently as every five seconds. The result is a huge trove of data that can provide a wealth of information and insights about the operation of a transit agency. Data in these large quantities, however, always contains a significant number of errors. If charts, graphs and even complete dashboard solutions are based on faulty data […]

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Route Analyst GTFS Presentations in Seattle

By |December 13th, 2017|

Moonshadow CEO, Eimar Boesjes, introduced Route Analyst GTFS to a number of transit agencies and ITS professionals from the greater Seattle area on December 11th and 12th. Our partners at DKS Associates hosted a session at their offices on the 11th and Boesjes demoed the technology at the ITS Washington vendor showcase held at the University of Washington HUB on the 12th.

Route Analyst GTFS creates speed, delay and headway maps, charts and graphs instantly from your GTFS and GTFS-RealTime feeds.

Route Analyst GTFS is cloud-based database and analytics software for the Internet of Moving Things that empowers transit agencies with an […]

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Route Analyst GTFS Released for Three Agencies in Greater Seattle Area

By |November 30th, 2017|

Route Analyst GTFS has been released for the following three agencies in the Greater Seattle area; King County Metro (KCM), Pierce County and the Washington State Ferries. KCM provides public transit throughout the greater Seattle region servicing towns from Lake Forest Park and Bothell in the North to Kirkland, Redmond and Bellevue in the East and Burien, Tukwila, Renton, Federal Way and Auburn in the South. Pierce Transit covers the greater Tacoma area and the WA State Ferries link many of the islands in the Puget Sound and in the San Juan Islands.

These agencies make their schedule available […]

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Route Analyst GTFS Released for RTD Denver

By |November 28th, 2017|

Moonshadow Mobile has released DB4IoT Route Analyst GTFS for the Regional Transportation District (RTD) in Denver, Colorado. The RTD provides public transit throughout the greater Denver region servicing towns from Longmont, Boulder and Lafayette in the North to Sheridan, Englewood, Aurora, Littleton and Centennial and all the way to Parker, CO, in the South.

The RTD makes its schedule available as a GTFS file whenever the schedule changes. The RTD also publishes the movement of all its buses and trains in real-time as a GTFS Real Time Vehicle Position file. Route Analyst GTFS tracks all vehicle movement live and retains all […]

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