Research Task - Transit Bunching Research

[amandaha8]

Research Task

Use this template to create issues that represent small chunks of work (.5 - 2 days) that stand alone, or represent incremental work as part of an Epic Issue Template.

• Relevant PR (if applicable):

• Question or Goal: overarching goal of this issue

• Researching

  • How researchers/transit agencies/other entities have calculated bunching using GTFS data.
  • What is considered bunching? Is it two vehicles on the same route and direction within 1 minute? 2 minutes?
  • What makes a route "frequent" ? Is it every 15 minutes? Every 10 minutes?

• Data Required:
  Bunching related literature.

• Research Required:
  See above.

• Metrics: what specific calculations are you looking to find?
  None, this is a literature review.

• Expected Outputs / Findings: what do you hope to have created when this is complete?
  An idea of how other entities have approached this issue to get inspiration for creating the bunching metric for the GTFS dsata Caltrans collects.

[tiffanychu90]

• Epic - GTFS Digest (exploratory portfolio) #989