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Welcome to ChaloBEST

This is the repository of all documentation, notes and plans for our project, which began in January 2011 as a studio-based learning experiment at Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) (http://www.hbcse.tifr.res.in) to make public and open transport data available over the web, SMS, smartphones, and in print using free and open source software, standards, and public databases.

ChaloBEST is a collaboration between CAMP (http://camputer.org) , Gnowledge Lab (http://www.gnowledge.lab), MacGregor Technknowlogy (http://mgtech.in) , SPARC Systems (http://sparcsys.com) , UserInnov (http://userinnov.com) and Topomancy Cooperative (http://topomancy.com) in Mumbai, BusRoutes.in (http://busroutes.in) in Chennai, and New IndicTrans Tech (http://indictranstech.com/) in Pune.

ChaloBEST would have been impossible without the kind assistance of officials of the Traffic Planning Department of BEST (Brihanmumbai Electric Supply & Transport Undertaking) (http://bestundertaking.com) .

Our work is supported by Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS) (http://iihs.co.in) as the first-prize winners in the Transform Urban India (http://transformurbanindia.com) competition held at the India Urban Conference 2011 (http://iuc2011.in) .

For an introduction to ChaloBEST in less than ten minutes, see our talk at IIHS Sankranti on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRosKYm5TZI) .

Technical Documentation

Data Processing

  • BEST-Database for documentation of the database schemas, models, and post-processing.
  • BEST-Log for logs of anomalies in the database, for feedback to BEST Traffic Planning Department.
  • GTFS for documentation on how we are creating a feed in General Transit Feed Specification (https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/reference) .

API & Web Services

  • Back End for documentation on back-end functions and the application programming interface (API) for ChaloBEST and BusRoutes.in.
  • Web Services for older notes on various free and open source web services, APIs and data standards for transport and multi-modal routing.

SMS Services

  • SMS-HowTo for language translations of ChaloBEST SMS how-to instructions for our RapidSMS instance http://sms.chalobest.in
  • SMS-Queries documents the query syntax for the SMS service (needs to be updated). Android Application
  • Mobile Dev for guidelines for J2ME and Android smartphone development by MacGregor Tech (http://mgtech.in) since January 2012.
  • Mobile Front End for the specification for Android design and layout for ChaloBEST.
  • Android Dev for feedback and bug reports on the app develoed by SmartShehar (http://smartshehar.com) with our data and inputs from July to December 2011.

Design Documentation

  • Front End for the specification for the website design and layout for ChaloBEST and BusRoutes.in.
  • User Studies for usability research and design concepts led by Carolien Klep of UserINNOV (http://userinnov.com) .
  • Graphics for notes and ideas on overall graphic design and principles led by Chitra Venkataramani.

ChaloBEST Proposals and Statements

  • The Problem: Sustainable Mobility in Mumbai
  • Solution: Open Source Apps and Services, Crowdsourcing, and Public Media
  • Vodafone Mobiles4Good for our entry to the Mobiles4Good (http://mobilesforgood.mbillionth.in/) competition due on 30 April 2011. Sankranti Transform Urban India for our original project proposal which won first prize in the Sankranti Transform Urban India (http://transformurbanindia.com) competition held at India Urban Conference (http://iuc2011.in) in November 2011.

ChaloBEST Partner Agreements

  • Memorandum of Understanding by the project partners in January 2012.
  • Project Agreement by the partners in July 2011, now subsumed and superseded by the MoU.
  • Implementation Plan for dates and milestones for our work together from February to July 2012 (old).

Studio & Workshop Notes

  • HackerBhojan for the task-based developer roadmap to return us to our hacker roots from Diwali 2012 onwards.
  • FreemapStudio2012 for docs on the ten day Mumbai hacker camp held with with Topomancy Coop (http://topomancy.com) and Groundtruth Initiative (http://groundtruth.in) in February 2012.
  • LED Displays for a project proposal on SMS and web-enabled LED displays powered by ChaloBEST services.
  • Workshops for documentations of hacker workshops held at CAMP and Gnowledge to start the project, earlier known as SMS-BEST, in January 2011.
  • Older Stuff for outdated documentation and notes on the project from early 2011 when we got started.
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