The Storytelling Power of Data: How BART used Cloud-Based Analytics to Improve Operations

The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) is a heavy-rail public transit system that extends across five Northern California counties, has 50 stations located on 131 miles of track, and carries thousands of passengers every day. A recent move to a cloud-based data and analytics platform empowered employees to conduct their own analyses and create dashboards for insights into everything from ridership patterns to preventative maintenance on rail cars.

On Nov. 15, BART is joining Government Technology and Oracle to take a deep dive into the organization’s story and how it has utilized data and analytics to better know its customers and streamline operations. Register for this hour-long webcast to:

• Hear the specific use cases where BART has used data to forecast trends such as future ridership and pricing policies
• Learn best practices around how to better organize, govern and store data to make it secure and accessible
• Discover the forward-thinking vision around where transportation is headed in the future