Bibiana McHugh
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Bibiana McHugh was TriMet's manager of IT GIS and location-based services in April 2010. Her salary was set for $107,887 in fiscal year 2011.
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[edit] Innovator in online trip planning
Aaron Antrim of Trillium Solutions, a Portland-based transit information consultant who interviewed McHugh in 2008 for More Riders magazine, told Portland Afoot in July 2010 that he thinks McHugh, more than anyone else, is responsible for TriMet's embrace of open data standards and software.
Though a group of private citizens had initially pushed TriMet to open its data, Antrim said, "there's a lot of demand expressed for open data in agencies throughout the U.S., and agencies responded by putting up their walls. Whereas TriMet totally embraced that ... not only made the data publicly available, but advocated for the data and advocated for its use and other agencies to follow suit."
[edit] Work on Open Trip Planner
As of July 2010, McHugh was helping lead an international effort to replace TriMet's outdated, proprietary, single-mode trip planner with the Open Trip Planner, a new open-source multi-modal trip planner.
"We pay a lot of money to this company, and I don't know why, because there's been no enhancements or features in the past year since it's been up and running," McHugh said of the existing trip planner in a presentation at Metro on July 20.
McHugh, an evangelical believer in open source software, said TriMet conceived the Open Trip Planner project because it "didn't want to develop a trip planner just for Portland. We wanted to create a viable trip planner for all transit agencies."
McHugh hired byCycle.org creator Wyatt Baldwin onto TriMet's maps team in 2008. Though Baldwin did not work directly on the Open Trip Planner for TriMet, some ideas used in byCycle.org were used to inform the design of the new tool. Baldwin had open-sourced the code the day after starting work at TriMet.
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