Half of New York City’s best and brightest technologists live or work in Brooklyn, yet we travel to Manhattan every week for the best tech talks. Not anymore! BK Tech Talks are presentations about the most interesting problems and solutions that New Yorkers are working on. The first BK Tech Talk is next Monday, April 2 in Dumbo’s NYU-Poly Dumbo Incubator (20 Jay St, Suite 312, Brooklyn, NY). Dumbo based Mobile Commons‘s CTO Benjamin Stein, Michael Frumin, Systems Engineering Manager at the MTA, Jeff Maki, head of Transportation at OpenPlans will present the technology behind Real Time GPS Tracking of New York City Buses, including the unique technology challenges rolling out a high profile project in NYC.
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MTA BusTime: Real Time GPS Tracking of New York City Buses
Monday, April 2, 2012, 7:00 PM
MTA Bus Time is an amazing new project by the New York MTA that allows bus riders to find the real-time location of the next several buses that will arrive at their stop.
MTA Bus Time was built on an open source and open standards-based platform using commercial technologies provided by multiple different partners. It uses GPS hardware and wireless communications technology to track real-time bus locations, integrate with route and schedule information, and makes the result accessible across a huge array of interfaces, including the web, a mobile website, on iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, SMS text messaging, and via an open developer API.
Bus Time ran as a pilot on the B63 bus line in Brooklyn early last year, was expanded to Staten Island in January of 2012, will launch in the Bronx by the end of 2012, and will be deployed across all of New York City by the end of 2013.
Go here to sign up: meetup.com/BK-Tech-Talks/events/55116342