[kuanbutts]

This is awesome! I fully believe that government procurement needs serious reform, which this article and effort is clearly attempting to address. So, props to David Block-Schachter (the CTO).

There are far too many large, bloated consultancies that specialize not in delivering quality products and services, but rather in "surviving" the government procurement process.

Props as well to the Swiftly team - I had a change to take a peak at some of the APIs they expose to their customers and it's quite valuable. In particular, they roll up stop-pair segment performance on routes by time of day, which allows someone to query for bus performance by discrete route-schedule-segments.

Gathering this type of data is quite labor intensive and a significant technical lift (I was once part of a project doing this with GTFS-RT data from the NYC MTA). This type of information, and the broader ecosystem of performance related API services they provide to their users (based off the limited amount I have seen), can enable operators to extract highly articulated performance statistics about their fleet, on their own.