Transit & Transportation

Real-time intelligence for BC's transit networks

GTFS-RT real-time analytics, ridership forecasting, maintenance intelligence, and revenue optimization for TransLink, BC Transit, and regional transportation authorities across British Columbia.

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Capabilities
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Real-Time Operations

Live vehicle position feeds via GTFS-RT, on-time performance monitoring, incident detection, and operations room dashboards refreshing every 30 seconds.

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Ridership Forecasting

30 and 90-day ridership forecasts by route and corridor using Prophet time-series ML — trained on historical ridership, special events, and seasonal patterns.

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Revenue Analytics

Compass card fare data integration, route-level revenue analysis, underpriced route identification, and missed revenue recovery opportunity modeling.

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Fleet & Maintenance

Preventive maintenance scheduling, fleet utilization analysis, breakdown pattern detection, and vehicle lifecycle cost modeling.

TransLink engagement results
94%
30-day ridership forecast accuracy — validated against holdout data
$340k
Revenue opportunity identified through underpriced route and fare recovery analysis
2.3%
On-time performance improvement across 230 Metro Vancouver routes
30+ min
Earlier service adjustments — operations team acts before issues become incidents
Architecture

GTFS to boardroom in one pipeline

Transit data is inherently real-time and high-volume. Our architecture handles both: streaming pipelines for operations teams, and batch forecasting models for planning teams — all feeding a unified Power BI environment.

Ingestion Layer

Azure Event Hubs ingesting GTFS-RT vehicle positions and service alerts. Azure Stream Analytics joining live feeds with scheduled timetable data in real time.

Event HubsGTFS-RTStream Analytics

Analytics Layer

Azure ML for Prophet forecasting models. Python pipelines for Compass card revenue analysis. Delta Lake for efficient historical storage and time-series querying.

Azure MLProphetDatabricks

Presentation Layer

Power BI real-time streaming datasets for operations room screens. Planner dashboards for forecasting. Executive dashboards for KPI and financial reporting.

Power BIReal-TimeExecutive BI
Transit analytics

Running a transit authority or regional transportation system?

Whether you're on BC Transit, TransLink, or a regional authority — we know GTFS, we know Compass, and we know what transit operations teams actually need to see.

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