Welcome to Rove’s documentation!

ROVE is an interactive bus transit performance analysis tool developed by the MIT Transit Lab.

ROVE is intended to be a flexible and user-friendly dashboard to visualize and compare the performance of a bus network over time. It is generalizable so that it can be easily adapted to different networks. It includes performance metrics related to scheduled supply, actual supply and passenger loading, based on the data available from the agency. It can be used for service planning, scheduling, detour planning and many other applications. It is browser-based, and therefore does not require any special software or advanced technical knowledge on the part of the end user.

Visit the ROVE repo on Github to download the source code.

Check out the Quick Start section for instructions on how to get started.

Note

The current implementation of ROVE provides stable support for static GTFS data only. Although ROVE has the capability to support AVL data, we cannot guarantee that your data will work perfectly in ROVE, due to the lack of standardization for AVL data. Users wishing to display observed metrics calculated with AVL data may do so at your own discretion. More information will be provided in the future on advanced topics such as working with AVL data, adding customized metric calculations, editing configuration files, etc.

Contents

• Quick Start
  • Using ROVE for the First Time
  • Quick Guide to the UI
  • Advanced Usage
• Backend
  • Introduction
  • Instructions
  • Workflow
  • Input Data Requirements
  • Output Data Formats
  • Modules
• Frontend

Contributors

The project was initially developed by Ru Mehendale.

Past contributors whose contributions were instrumental in making this project possible are Nick Caros (caros@mit.edu) and Xiaotong Guo (xtguo@mit.edu).

Contact Us

Currently, the project is being actively maintained and improved by Yuzhu Huang (yuzhuh@mit.edu) and Yen-Chu Wu (yenchuwu@mit.edu).

For inquiries related to copyright or research collaborations, please reach out to Anson Stewart (ansons@mit.edu).