This routing service for transit app developers aggregates open data on transport information from across the globe. Transitland is described as "a community-edited data service aggregating transit networks across metropolitan and rural areas around the world."
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, the startup is able to map travel in over 200 regions in the world. Transitland "makes sense of the jumble" by cleaning data sets and uploading them to Mapzen, a public mapping platform. Their latest expansion is a transport planning tool called Turn-by-Turn that encourages people to contribute by adding data streams, sharing apps or offering analysis. The routing service is also in charge of all licensing related to using this data.
What Makes This Trend Stand Out
- Aggregating Transit Data
- Opportunities for disruptive innovation exist in developing platforms that aggregate and clean transit data from multiple sources for app developers.
- Community-edited Data Services
- Businesses can explore disruptive innovation by creating community-edited data services that aggregate and analyze transit networks from various areas worldwide.
- Transport Planning Tools
- There are potential disruptive innovation opportunities in developing transport planning tools that encourage data contribution and enable analysis for improved transit services.
Sectors Adopting This
- Transit App Development
- The transit app development industry could benefit from disruptive innovation by leveraging aggregating routing services that provide clean and comprehensive transit data.
- Data Aggregation and Analysis
- Industries focused on data aggregation and analysis can seize disruptive innovation opportunities by creating platforms that leverage community-edited transit data for various applications.
- Transportation Planning and Consulting
- There is potential for disruptive innovation in the transportation planning and consulting industry by developing tools that enable collaborative data sharing, analysis, and improved transport planning.
