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    TTC Metropass Availability

    About this Dataroom

    Project Description

    Today's issue:

    Buying a TTC pass or token is not the easiest thing in Toronto. TTC makes them available through a network of partners (mainly convenience stores and TTC subway stations) to cover most of the city. The two limitations of this affiliation system are:

  • Not every shop advertises on the street that they sell TTC products, so you can be looking for tokens and walk right by a re-seller without knowing it,
  • Most locations do not carry all TTC products, or they can sell out quickly of weekly and monthly passes.
  • A Positive environment:

    Toronto has a strong and innovative hacker community. Today, all of the pieces to build a TTC Pass application similar to TTC's schedule apps are there, so let's put them together:

  • The core data (store address and product availability) is provided on the TTC website. This has been scraped and made available through the buzzdata platform.
  • buzzdata is a Data Management System (DMS). In this project, the buzzdata API will be used to let any registered website / apps to read and update the data.
  • Any user through a registered application will be able to edit product availability.
  • The value proposition:

    Smartphone apps and web developers will be able to use this data set to create or improve their current product. The data set is a shared service between those applications: any one of them will benefit from updates made by the others. The data will become more accurate as it is updated by the Toronto community.

    Registered Applications:

  • TTC Pass (beta version)

    This project is about

  • Improving TTC user's experience when looking for tokens and passes,
  • Crowd-sourcing using a Data Management System (DMS).

    Data set description

    This data set contains per
    Store information

  • Store Name
  • Address
  • Postal Code
  • Longitude
  • Latitude

    Products:

  • Token (means adult token)
  • TokenChild
  • TokenSudent (valid also for Senior token)
  • Week (means adult week pass)
  • weekGTA (means adult GTA week pass)
  • Month (means adult month pass)
  • MonthStudent (valid also for Senior month pass)
  • MonthPost (Monthly pass for post-secondary students)
  • Notes
  • updated by
  • updated at

    Value can be:

  • 0 do not resell this product
  • 1 do resell this product and product available
  • 2 do resell this product and product not available (only for weekly and monthly passes)
  • blank information not available

    Change between 1 and 2 can (should) be done at product level for non-TTC selling points within the application.

    Cleaning script:
  • All sellers carrying monthly passes are reset to 1 on the 24th of the month at 4:30 AM
  • All sellers carrying weekly passes are reset to 1 every Thursday at 4:00 AM,
  • Weekly passes for all TTC station set to 2 every Wednesday at 4:00 AM

    Sources:

  • TTC website ( initial list of resellers and product availability at TTC stations )
  • Wikipedia (station coordinate and address)
  • You and anyone who updated this dataset using one of the partner application.

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