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ODOT-PTS / GTFS-ride

GTFS-ride is an open standard for storing and sharing fixed-route transit ridership data.
https://gtfsride.org
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rider_trip.rider_id --> ride_id [copyediting] #20

Closed antrim closed 5 years ago

antrim commented 5 years ago

Small change, but it seems appropriate to change the rider_trip.rider_id field name to ride_id. The field doesn't identify an individual rider, and GTFS-ride purports to provide anonymized data.

carletop commented 5 years ago

This ID is meant to be associated with a rider so that account specific information can be included (e.g., disabled, military, service animal, etc.). The intent was that the same ID could be seen over multiple trips to deduce transfers and aggregated travel behaviors. The privacy issue inherent in this design has yet to be robustly discussed to any particular solution or consensus of best practices. It was briefly mentioned in the first consortium meeting that such data could be stored in the GTFS-ride format without it necessarily being released as a part of a public GTFS-ride feed.