Data analytics

Passenger transit systems collect a lot of data, including:

• Fare payment systems know when and where customers are travelling
• GPS and signal systems know where your vehicles are
• Passenger counters know how many passengers are onboard and how many are transiting through which gateways
• Timecard systems know when and where employees are signing in and out
• Work order systems know what employees are working on
• Asset management systems know when and by whom equipment was last inspected or repaired

You may have some intuition about what is going on – but we unearth the data that will show you a clear picture to either validate what you already know or inform a new avenue of progress.

Reddy Analytics (RA) can help you through the whole data analytics lift cycle, including modeling, ETL (extract, transform and load), reporting and visualization. Our team drives innovation by transforming volumes of opaque data into distinct actionable insights. In addition, RA draws on cutting-edge analytical techniques to answer key questions from an agency leadership and produce innovative performance metrics, reports, dashboards, and real-time tools. We have succeeded in solving numerous challenging problems in real world transportation projects with our data analysis methodology.

All RA products are developed in rapid-iteration with stakeholders and inform decision-making at all levels of the organization. Examples include the subway, bus, and accessibility dashboards, along with the industry-leading passenger-perspective metrics they contain, as well as hundreds of customizable web reports which allow users across the agency to self-serve their data needs. Our “smoking-gun” charts revealing the impacts of signal modifications were key to prompting the Train Speed and Safety Task Force, and we’ve helped coordinate several related initiatives. Real-time tools, such as Stringlines and the Service Intervention Recommendation Engine (SIRE) help diagnose subway service problems and provide real-time recommendations for solving them, respectively. Transit View takes the visualization of subway service by showing actual train movements in real time, highlighting gaps and slow areas for communications staff to share with the public.

RA continues to experiment with other advanced technologies and new data sources to develop products which will rapidly shift agencies processes into the 21st century, without waiting for the multi-year timelines associated with typical capital projects.

Electronic systems can’t see everything. Management systems are only as good as the information they gather. We solve shortfalls in data through advanced data collection:

• Statistical sampling ensures whatever data you collect is representative of 100% population, reflective of all behavior, minimizing your data collection efforts
• Audits validating data accuracy
• Surveys gather opinions and other “soft” data that isn’t easily obtainable or observable, but offers additional insights into the psychology of riders and non-riders
• Proper study design, through an iterative testing process, ensures the data collected answers the questions you are asking

We help you turn theory into practice and to convince outside stakeholders to support your actions. We help leadership to make empirical decisions by making the information easily digestible and widely available.

One of the biggest challenges in the data space is that many analytical algorithms simply don’t function in real time thanks to lag in information gathering, unexpected delays, or other unpredictable events. To compensate for this, we combine some short-range data with detailed forecasting capabilities:

• Using data from the past several months or longer, we build a predictive algorithm for today
• Based on what has happened so far on a trip, we build a predictive algorithm for the rest of the trip.  (This is difficult, but we are state-of-the-art on this and continually perform further research.)
• Based on what is happening elsewhere in a system, we forecast the impacts across the service line for the rest of the day, empowering dispatchers to make effective decisions in alternate service strategies

By making the real-time data available to your operations managers, and providing a useful short-term forecast, we empower them to make the best moment-to-moment decisions.  We also make some of this data available to your customers, to help them plan their journeys.

Visualization makes any data more intuitive and it plays an important role to operators and decision makers. However, the real dilemma is how to implement the visualization to fit your data. There are numerous data visualization frameworks on the market, however most of them are not fully customizable aiming to provide universal solutions, often they are not suitable for transportation data. We provide a better way to visualize your data:

• Fully customizable web application for data visualization set up specifically for your needs to answer your requirements
• Modular design which is scalable and easy to maintain
• Cost efficiency and fast turn around

We help you to deploy the application and explore the best ways to save your budget. The application also supports real-time data visualization, which helps you to make decisions faster.