Using Python and Unfolded to visualize RTD’s real-time bus data feeds — The Regional Transportation District, more commonly referred to as RTD, is the regional agency operating public transit services in Denver. RTD has an open data platform that publishes: Schedule data, including the full schedule and route configuration Real-time data for RTD bus services, including information about arrival/departure predictions and vehicles…

An Empirical Analysis of Snowfall Events on Macroscopic Traffic Variables — I was recently working on collecting traffic data for a state highway going through mountains and I decided to investigate the effects of snowfall on traffic operations. While looking for similar studies, I found this research study from China looking at the impact of rain on traffic. Survey the impact of different rainfall intensities on urban road traffic operations using… IEEE Xplore, delivering full text access to the world's highest quality technical literature in engineering and…ieeexplore.ieee.org

Analyzing Bike Ridership Trends If you have read my last story, I promised that I would take a look at the change of bicycle counts before and after the pandemic. This story will talk about visualizing the change in bicycle counts and comment on the results. I used the codes…

Hello everyone, It’s been a while since the last time I published an article. I had a little bit of spare time in between jobs. …

NYC taxi data visualization — H3 is a geospatial indexing system developed and open sourced by Uber. It provides functions for converting latitude/longitude coordinates into H3 geospatial hexagonal tiles. It is entirely written in C but there are bindings available for other languages including Python, R, and Ruby. As a transportation engineer, we do use…

Hello everyone, We realized that there is no application that reports NBA results of the day on Slack during one of our meaningless conversations about sports. Since it was the long weekend, I started to look for potential resources I can utilize to bring the scores to our slack channel. …

While looking for libraries to create animated plots, I found this gem. I thought this was new but it looks like it s been there for a while. Tweenr library makes your gganimate transitions smoother by including more frames in between. I will show an example below. Since I am…

To use deck.gl you need Node.js webpack Mapbox Access Key First, we need Node.js installation. I am using a Windows machine, thus, I used the installation file provided below. Download | Node.js Download the Node.js source code or a pre-built installer for your platform, and start developing today.nodejs.org However, I downloaded this months ago. I needed to update my npm by running a PowerShell as an Administrator on Windows…

Let’s first load the library we are going to use in R. library("rgl") This is a Markdown document. If you are interested about how to do similar HTML pages, please visit: http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com We stored MTA Bustime Data using their API for a day for all the buses and converted it…