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For the new Team and Analytic Team York City Team and Analytics Transport, 5. January 2025. years, he felt much like Kismet.
Three and a half years earlier, they had New York State Legislators laid the law Requiring MPA to publish “easily accessible, understandable and usable” data in public; By January 2022. The Chairman of the MPA and the Director General Janno Lieber officially announced the formation of a new team. Meanwhile, New York City’s The controversial congestion program, which charges cars entering the busiest streets of Manhattan, officially started in 2019. years, but broke through the long-term adjustment process, with transit agencies and state combat lawsuits, politicians and vocal naisaii.
When the program finally started in January, the data and analytical team of MTA have been prepared. They could see the moment when the billing was launched in the budgets. “The day he turned on, one field changed from” income income “in” income “, says Andi Kuziemko, Deputy Head of the Team of Data and Analytics.
A few days later, the team dropped data on the entry of the zone in 10-minute steps and publishing data on their website, so the untransluent can decide whether the congestion program actually reducing traffic on the city streets. The agency has been working since. Yes, yes, you can see and download MTA-E data here.
The websites are not shining, but represent a rare and comprehensive victory of public transit for open data advocates, which claim that access to well-maintained public gatherings is crucial for government transparency and efficiency.
From 2022. MTA team and analytical team has grown into 26 full-time employees, who conduct their working day centralize the information that used to be scattered throughout MTA. The agency, to be clear, it is great. The biggest nation, it carries about 5.9 million riders on underground railways, buses, travel railways and through tunnels and bridges every day. It’s a lot of tracking numbers.
Indeed a lot; MTA now publishes more than 180 data sets. Recent accessories include more than a Decade is worth data Then MTA employees conduct on “productive tasks”, a New data set on incidents causing metro delay; and bus speeds on Manhattan Most crowded downtown. Kuziemko says that still 30 data sets becomes publicly available “in the near future”.
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In the interview, the Chief and Initiatives of the Strategic Initiative of Kuziemko and MTA Jon Kaufman lending a new culture of data for data on the Intra-Agency for the re-program. 2023. year, management encouraged managers across the agency to make their data be persecuted in the “data lake” that can be specified, lintify identifying information and eventually openly published. (Some MTA data contains personally recognizable communicator information; the agency says this specific data is not published.) The agency also started using the new In-House software and tools, which give them technical possibilities that they are not before. “We paid for zero hours of consulting time, which is the thing we are really proud – that we actually built international expertise in the public sector,” Kuziemko says. “It’s really cool.”
“It is rare for the Government Agency to divide this level of data granularity,” says Sarah Kaufman, which focuses Niu Rudin Center for transportation and was held by an open data program of the Agency. In fact, it’s something like a face for MTA, which Before 2009. He made a habit of legally persecuted developer which was experting system scheduling and data data to make applications adapted to Rider.
