[Talk-us] Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission used OSM for analysis

[Josh Doe]

Just stumbled across this webinar given back in March 2011 about the
Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission (DVRPC) using OSM and
GTFS data for creating a travel network and performing analysis (such
as travel time maps). Delaware Valley refers to the metropolitan area
centered on Philadelphia, PA (including parts of PA, DE, MD, and NJ).

They apparently did quite a bit of work to fix/add class, speed, and
lane information, as well as correcting connectivity issues. I'm
guessing they did this after converting the OSM data to some other
format, but it might be worth asking them if them about it. In the
conclusion they say "Open question – future relationships with web
2.0: OSM was a one-time, one-way data exchange, will someone feed our
enhancements back?"

Webinar page:
http://tmip.fhwa.dot.gov/webinars/openstreetmap

DVRPC presentation slides:
http://tmip.fhwa.dot.gov/sites/tmip.fhwa.dot.gov/files/DVRPC_Presentation.pdf

-Josh