Approaches to analysis and action of SmartRider/Live Times GPS data to address Timed Stop performance

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Dear Public Transport Authority of Western Australia,

Due to the continued recent poor experience of myself and my acquaintances in respect of drivers for your contracted service providers in areas we frequent not upholding what is known on the timetable as “Timed stops” by virtue of repeated early departures; I wish to seek access to the following information:

1. Documents relevant to PTA’s specific expectations in respect of how Drivers of the contracted service providers are expected to perform in respect of early departures from timed stops, including any:
a) relevant materials and communications pertinent to decision making on how these performance expectations were decided;
b) policies and/or procedures published by PTA for its employees, and persons working in the PTA customer contact center (including any contracted service providers delivering the customer contact centre service) in respect of handling these issues;
c) policies, procedures, memorandums, education and training materials, and other records (including but not limited to the non-commercially sensitive portions of contracts and their standard forms between PTA and their contracted service providers) covering how drivers and the contracted service providers are informed, educated, tracked, investigated, disciplined, accountable, fined and/or penalised for any relevant behaviours;

2. A summary of how, if at all, PTA analyses it’s available data to identify these issues, including:
a) A summary of which specific data sets are actively used by PTA for these purposes (For the avoidance of doubt, this is to know which specific data sets, and the data fields that are used for the performance of any potential analysis; and not a summary of copy of the actual data held itself);
b) Policies and procedures relevant to data analysis;
c) A summary of the resources allocated by PTA to the purposes of data analysis and timetable compliance, including:
- Head count,
- Position titles, title of the EBA or other industrial document under which their position is established, and their salary band under same,
d) A year on year breakdown of the issues identified as a result of any potential data analysis (specific period of the year on year breakdown to depend on how far the PTA has data for these purposes), including but not expressly limited to:
- Impacted service area/region,
- Impacted bus route,
- Source/channel of how the concern was identified (i.e. PTA analysis, self-reporting by driver, self-reporting by service provider, customer contact centre enquiry, social media enquiry, or other channels),
- Response of the contracted service provider and/or driver upon the issue being raised,
- Identified cause,
- Investigation outcomes and actions implemented to address the issue
- Penalties or outcomes, if any, imposed on the contracted service providers and/or their drivers for these issues.

3) Any other materials and/or responsive records that PTA may identify relevant to the subject matter in the course of handling this request.

Yours faithfully,

Michael H

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Will need to add a clarification in 2(d), to include the amount of time impact caused to the list of information within the YoY dataset.

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Sent request to WA Public Transport Authority again, using a new contact address.

Rakich, Philip, WA Public Transport Authority

Dear Michael H.

 

I refer to your FOI request email below to the Public Transport Authority.

 

A valid FOI application for non-personal information requires the payment
of a $30 application fee as outlined in the FOI Regulations 1993.

 

Please arrange this payment to the Public Transport Authority and on
receipt the Agency will then determine whether it can deal with the scope
of the application as outlined in your email.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Phil Rakich
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Tel  : 93262557
Fax : 93262936
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From: Michael H <[2][FOI #5699 email]>
Sent: 2019/10/08 13:23:53
To: FOI requests at PTA <[3][PTA request email]>
Subject: Freedom of Information request - Approaches to analysis and act
ion ofSmartRider/Live Times GPS data to address Timed Stop performan
ce

Dear Public Transport Authority of Western Australia,

Due to the continued recent poor experience of myself and my acquaintances
in respect of drivers for your contracted service providers in areas we
frequent not upholding what is known on the timetable as “Timed stops” by
virtue of repeated early departures; I wish to seek access to the
following information:

1. Documents relevant to PTA’s specific expectations in respect of how
Drivers of the contracted service providers are expected to perform in
respect of early departures from timed stops, including any:
a) relevant materials and communications pertinent to decision making on
how these performance expectations were decided;
b) policies and/or procedures published by PTA for its employees, and
persons working in the PTA customer contact center (including any
contracted service providers delivering the customer contact centre
service) in respect of handling these issues;
c) policies, procedures, memorandums, education and training materials,
and other records (including but not limited to the non-commercially
sensitive portions of contracts and their standard forms between PTA and
their contracted service providers) covering how drivers and the
contracted service providers are informed, educated, tracked,
investigated, disciplined, accountable, fined and/or penalised for any
relevant behaviours;

2. A summary of how, if at all, PTA analyses it’s available data to
identify these issues, including:
a) A summary of which specific data sets are actively used by PTA for
these purposes (For the avoidance of doubt, this is to know which specific
data sets, and the data fields that are used for the performance of any
potential analysis; and not a summary of copy of the actual data held
itself);
b) Policies and procedures relevant to data analysis;
c) A summary of the resources allocated by PTA to the purposes of data
analysis and timetable compliance, including:
- Head count,
- Position titles, title of the EBA or other industrial document under
which their position is established, and their salary band under same,
d) A year on year breakdown of the issues identified as a result of any
potential data analysis (specific period of the year on year breakdown to
depend on how far the PTA has data for these purposes), including but not
expressly limited to:
- Impacted service area/region,
- Impacted bus route,
- Source/channel of how the concern was identified (i.e. PTA analysis,
self-reporting by driver, self-reporting by service provider, customer
contact centre enquiry, social media enquiry, or other channels),
- Response of the contracted service provider and/or driver upon the issue
being raised,
- Identified cause,
- Investigation outcomes and actions implemented to address the issue
- Penalties or outcomes, if any, imposed on the contracted service
providers and/or their drivers for these issues.

3) Any other materials and/or responsive records that PTA may identify
relevant to the subject matter in the course of handling this request.

Yours faithfully,

Michael H

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