Primary goals of Sound Transit, King County Metro, and their Puget Sound partner agencies are to plan, implement, and operate an integrated, cost-effective, socially responsible, multimodal transportation system. Previous research has demonstrated that processed data from regional ORCA transit fare cards provide considerable insight into current and historical use of the transit system. To help the public transportation services agencies meet their goals, those ORCA data need to be made readily available. For that reason, this project is building a pilot version of a business intelligence system that will provide multi-agency access to ORCA transaction data on a routine, continuing basis. The project will develop an initial level of analytical capability that will be expandable and adaptable. It will also create an annual update process that relies on extraction of ORCA transaction data from the ORCA Data Warehouse and vehicle location records from transit operators. The system will include an effective user interface and reporting capability as well as required data access protocols and privacy controls.
Principal Investigator: Mark E. Hallenbeck, Washington State Transportation Center, UW
Sponsors:
Sound Transit
King County Metro
Mobility Innovations Center, UW
Amazon
Microsoft
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Challenge Seattle
Sound Transit Technical Monitor: Brian Brooke
Scheduled completion: February 2021