Metrolinx: Design your own transportation system, a consultation interface

The TransitCamp community and later Metronauts have used technology and open source thinking in many interesting ways to engage citizens in transportation policy.

Over the next few months, I plan to create content for the Metronauts site and carry out research simultaneously.  I will do this by sitting down and carrying out interviews and making some movies of Metronauts using maps.  By Metronauts  I mean any interested bloggers, participants at the ‘unconference’ bar camp events, and readers of this site.  I hope that some of you will be willing to let me screencast or videotape you as you tell me about particular transit routes in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton areas while using Metrolinx’s ‘Design your own transportation system’ interface.  If you participate, you can choose if the materials get used for research only or if they can be used here on metronauts.ca or in other places.

As a PhD student in the Faculty of Information and Knowledge Media
Design Institute, at the University of Toronto, I am broadly interested in how new media tools can be used within policy consultation and participation processes.

If you are interested in participating in this content creation and research opportunity please contact me:

Email:
Campus phone number: 416.946.5366 (shared line)

Further information including formal documents about my research are available at my site.