{"id":140,"date":"2011-08-10T12:02:25","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T12:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/?p=140"},"modified":"2011-08-10T12:02:25","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T12:02:25","slug":"guest-post-qr-codes-in-bus-stops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/2011\/08\/10\/guest-post-qr-codes-in-bus-stops\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post: QR Codes in Bus Stops"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/2011\/08\/10\/guest-post-qr-codes-in-bus-stops\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>This is a guest post from Nick Gammer, a University of Southampton MSc student.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">* * *<\/p>\n<p>Just a quick note about a project I\u2019m undertaking involving  Southampton University\u2019s Open Data Service. As the dissertation of my  MSc in Transport Planning and Engineering and with the kind help of  First Group and support of Southampton  City Council I\u2019ve placed QR code posters in over 40 bus stops around  Southampton. These can be scanned using a smartphone which links to the  next arrival times of all buses servicing the relevant stop, usually in  real time as the majority of services now have GPS based AVL (Automatic  Vehicle Location).<\/p>\n<p>This information initially comes from  ROMANSE, Southampton\u2019s traffic control centre. However this is not  mobile friendly and does not perform well on a smartphone. Southampton  University\u2019s open Data Service already skims this data, adding a map of  the stop location, which is what the QR code links to. Without this  service the project would be substantially devalued.<\/p>\n<p>The project  has been running for two weeks now with initially encouraging results;  between 10 and 30 QR codes are scanned and link to this data daily.  There is also a survey underway assessing users views of the service  (amongst other things). I\u2019ll put a quick note on  the conclusion of the project at a later data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet This is a guest post from Nick Gammer, a University of Southampton MSc student. * * * Just a quick note about a project I\u2019m undertaking involving Southampton University\u2019s Open Data Service. As the dissertation of my MSc in Transport Planning and Engineering and with the kind help of First Group and support of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[393,14606,14607],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geo","category-guest-posts","category-transport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140\/revisions\/141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.soton.ac.uk\/data\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}