Not only does BART provide the data readily to the public, it encourages competition among third-party software developers to improve the applications they develop by listing all the applications that have been devoloped on bart.gov/apps.
“We’ve put BART in front of customers in so many places that we wouldn’t be able to do on our own,” said BART Website Manager Timothy Moore. “We basically can’t envision every beneficial use for this public data and frankly transit agencies in general don’t have the vision. We don’t have the time, we don’t have the resources.” “There are people out there that have better ideas than we do,” he added. “That’s really why we opened it up.
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