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Our project began in January 2011 as a studio-based learning experiment at Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE) to make Mumbai's transportion data available over the web, SMS, smartphones, and in print using free and open source software, open standards, and public databases.
Since February 2012, we have been supported by the Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS) as first-prize winners in the Sankranti Transform Urban India competition held at the India Urban Conference 2011 in November 2011.
For an intro in less than ten minutes, see our prize-winning talk on YouTube. ChaloBEST has been made possible through the kind assistance of officials of BEST (Brihanmumbai Electric Supply & Transport Undertaking).
- 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) .
- 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 How-To for language translations of ChaloBEST SMS how-to instructions for our RapidSMS application instance at http://sms.chalobest.in
- SMS Queries documents the query syntax for the SMS service (needs to be updated).
- Mobile Dev for guidelines for J2ME and Android smartphone development by MacGregor Tech since January 2012.
- Mobile Front End for the specification for Android design and layout for ChaloBEST.
- SmartShehar Dev for feedback and reports on the proprietary app developed by Chetan Temkar, SmartShehar with ChaloBEST support from July to December 2011.
- Front End for the specification for the website design and layout for ChaloBEST and BusRoutes.in.
- User Studies for usability research and design concepts from UserINNOV.
- Graphic Design for notes and ideas on overall graphic design and principles of ChaloBEST.
- The Problem: Sustainable Mobility in Mumbai
- The Solution: Free & Open Source Apps and Services, Crowdsourcing, and Public Media
- Mobiles4Good for our entry to the Vodafone Mobiles4Good competition due on 30 April 2011.
- Sankranti Proposal for our original pitch which won first prize in the [[Sankranti Transform Urban India | http://transformurbanindia.com]] at the India Urban Conference, November 2011.
- Memorandum of Understanding by the project partners in January 2012, and updated subsequently.
- 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).
- Hacker Bhojan for the task-based developer roadmap towards a ChaloBEST public beta.
- Freemap Studio 2012 for docs on the ten day Mumbai hacker camp held with with Topomancy and Groundtruth Initiative at CAMP and Gnowledge Lab in Mumbai 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.