The product explains what can be learned, what the evidence supports, and what remains unknown.
Product Roadmap
What is available now, and what comes next.
This roadmap separates features residents can use today from evidence that is still being strengthened, reviewed, or tested privately.
Patterns and questions are presented without pushing people toward a political conclusion.
The experience moves from the citywide picture into wards, local areas, stops, routes, and population context.
Four stages of the work
The public civic product grows only when a useful question can be supported by understandable evidence.
Available now
A connected public civic product
Residents can move from today's transit pulse into route connections, complete journeys, community evidence, local access, trends, and the methods behind each result.
- Responsive app-style navigation
- Recent surface reports and estimated subway movement
- Routes, journeys, community evidence, and access screening
Being strengthened
A stronger historical record
Stored observations are building a more dependable picture of how route spacing, service availability, complete journeys, and daily transit rhythms change over time.
- More comparable route observations
- Clearer minimum history and sample requirements
- Better reporting when history is thin, stale, or incomplete
Under review
Broader transit and access evidence
Regional connections, Line 5 information, station activity, and additional community measures will appear publicly only when their sources and meanings are clear.
- Metrolinx and cross-boundary context
- Line 5 service and connection information
- Additional aggregated access measures
Private Lab
Test models before publication
Forecasts, synthetic demand, anomaly detection, and machine-learning experiments remain private until their evidence, usefulness, and limitations have been evaluated.
- Prediction compared with later outcomes
- Model and data reliability checks
- Clear publication review before any public use
A more complete view of access
The civic product already brings service, access, and community information together. These areas need more evidence before they can support stronger public conclusions.
Population and household context is available today. Additional indicators will be added only at a safe geography and with clear source years, definitions, and limits.
Representative OpenStreetMap walking routes are already used in journey and access stories. Work continues on broader screening that accounts for paths and street connectivity without identifying homes.
Future access stories will distinguish proximity to a subway station from the quality, frequency, or reliability of the surface connection that reaches it.
Station activity remains under review. It will be shown only when a reliable source is available and will remain separate from live surface-vehicle observations.
Line 5 integration remains under review while the available public operational feeds are confirmed. Any future information will be labelled as live, estimated, or scheduled according to what the source actually provides.
What residents can use now
Each part of the public platform answers a different civic question and links back to its evidence and limitations.
A current view of visible surface vehicles, estimated subway movement, source times, and the places one route connects.
A ward-level comparison of recent vehicle reports, mapped stops, route coverage, and grouped population information.
A stop and local-area view of nearby routes, named places, generalized walking context, and aggregated population information.
Evidence about regularity, visible service, complete journeys, community conditions, and the daily transit rhythm.
A privacy-aware screen of estimated access to bus stops and frequent scheduled service at different times of day.
What this product does not do
These boundaries keep the platform understandable, independent, and appropriate for public use.
The evidence can identify patterns and places for closer review. It does not certify that service is good, bad, adequate, or inadequate.
The public platform uses public and aggregated evidence. Personal location histories, home addresses, and individual rider records are outside its scope.
Models remain in the private Lab until their evidence and limitations are understood. Unsupported conclusions are not published.
The civic product explains access, service, journeys, and community conditions. Official and dedicated routing tools remain the source for personal directions.
Data that supports the next stage
Public sources support the current platform. Additional official or licensed sources can strengthen specific questions when their definitions and permissions are clear.
TTC vehicle positions, route and stop data, OpenStreetMap, ward boundaries, subway station locations, City of Toronto Open Data, and Statistics Canada profiles.
Scheduled frequency, stop-level boarding patterns, station activity, service change notices, occupancy feeds, construction impacts, and local demographic datasets.