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by kuanbutts 3863 days ago
Data is - I believe - currently held on Conveyal's (the consultancy spearheading this) db. As I understand it, this has been developed in tandem with some World Bank initiatives and a test version of this is already operational with traffic data the WB has accrued in a number of international cities. Recent pushed wrt this project have been aimed at getting US cities on board, which (from personal experience) is much, much harder than getting buy-in on this type of work in cities abroad.

And wrt anon data versus specific trip data - that is anonymized when the trips are uploaded to the system. There will be no way to identify specific trips with the tool.

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> And wrt anon data versus specific trip data - that is anonymized when the trips are uploaded to the system. There will be no way to identify specific trips with the tool.

There is no way to 100% anonymise trips. Some will be deidentified.

Data related to a single trip will not be kept - data on route segments is product of aggregates, as I understand.