The Buffalo All Access dashboard, BuffaloAccess-PM-Dashboard is part of the Buffalo All Access: In and around BNMC, an initiative funded in part by the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) under the ITS4US Deployment Program. The project is led by the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority (NFTA) in partnership with Buffalo Niagara Medical Center (BNMC). More information may be found at https://bnmc.org/allaccess/. This dashboard is designed to visualize performance measures for the following areas of the ITS4US Buffalo All Access project:
- Ease of trip planning and making
- Safety and accessibility
- Availability and usefulness of travel information
- System functionality and user engagement.
The ITS4US Deployment Program https://its.dot.gov/research-areas/ITS4US/ is a $40 million multimodal effort, led by the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office (JPO) and supported by the Office of the Secretary, the Federal Highway Administration, and the Federal Transit Administration, to identify ways to provide more efficient transportation options for communities to access essential services.
The structure of the repository is shown in the tree diagram below:
/buffalo_all_access_pmd/
├── .gitignore # Ignore certain files (e.g., logs, credentials)
├── README.md # Project documentation and information
├── dashboard # Source code for building a dashboard web app
│ └── ...
├── input # Directory contains all the raw input data
│ └── ...
├── buffalo_all_access_pmd.Rproj # R project file that stores project-related files (e.g., source code, datasets, RStudio workspace)
├── config.R # Configuration script for project folder
├── data_processing_pre_survey.R # Source code for pre-deployment survey data preparation
├── data_processing_post_survey.R # Source code for post-deployment survey data preparation
└── data_processing_etch_api.R # Source code for complete trip app data preparation
This directory includes the source codes needed to build the dashboard. In addition, this repository contains all the datasets (e.g., pre- & post-deployment surveys, and complete trip app data) processed for a performance measurement.
This input directory contains all the raw data directly obtained from (both pre- and post-deployment) surveys, and complete trip app.
The buffalo_all_access_pmd.Rproj file is an R project file which stores all the files related to the project. It is also used to maintain the R environment, project settings, and dependencies for this dashboard.