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That can’t be right, the trains are moving: Engineer animates a day in the life of the MBTA

Monday, August 31st, 2009

James Kebinger, software engineer for PatientsLikeMe and owner of perhaps the best domain in town, used the T’s newly open scheduling info to put together animated video of 24 hours of activity on the Red, Orange, Blue and Green Lines.

I’d thought about doing this before, but it would have taken screen scraping schedule information off the site. I learned recently through a developer outreach that the Massachusetts Department of Transportation is running that the MBTA had released their schedule information in the Google transit feed specification (GTFS). With the data in hand, I went to work using the ruby-processing wrapper of the excellent Processing graphics toolkit.

Via Universal Hub.

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