Transport for NSW hopes open data policy will pave the way for open roads

"The New South Wales Transport Department will, for the first time, be releasing real-time data from the state’s roads at the Codeworks 2014 New South Wales Hackathon, which ia managed by Deloitte, in Sydney on September 20 and 21.   The government is giving teams of software developers and entrepreneurs access to the data in the hopes they can create innovative ways to help the state’s road users.   Deputy director general for the Customer Experience Division at Transport for New South Wales, Tony Braxton-Smith, says he hopes the Hackathon builds on the success the Codeworks program has had in recent years.   Since 2012 it has produced six apps TripView, Triptastic, Arrivo Sydney, TransitTimes, Next There and TripGo which Braxton-Smith says enable users access to 40 million data points per month ..."