[Talk-transit] maintenance is very time consuming on public transport routes

[Arun Ganesh]

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 3:55 AM, Jo <winfixit at gmail.com> wrote:

> That sounds like a totally different ballpark, which will never fit in the
> organised way it's done here. So the model as it is now doesn't fit and
> what I'm proposing doesn't fit either. Are there even fixed positions where
> the buses would stop? How do you know where the bus will take you? If it's
> on demand, it's more like a (shared) taxi.
>

To be fair, the problem is not that it is unorganised, but regularly
changing with routes being added, removed, renamed and merged due to
varying demand, politics, fleet upgradations, road improvements and a bunch
of other factors.

Marked bus stops exist, but the public unofficially shifts it by standing a
little ahead or before based on convenience if the stop is at a bad
location blocking road traffic (bus bays don't existent).

Big cities have a complex network of routes and service types that may
number 200-500 total variations and since there is never any official
online information portals, one cannot definitively say whats happening
unless they are at the bus stop and find the latest from someone on the
ground.

Even creating and maintaining an accurate GTFS feed is a big burden. A
schema that would just enable bus route road type mapping would atleast be
an intermediate solution for many developing countries to have a basic
level of useful details onto the map since the bus route road network is
something that changes less frequently than the routes.

-- 
 Arun Ganesh
(planemad) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Planemad>
 <http://j.mp/ArunGanesh>
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