The digital matatu project: Using cell phones to create an open source data for Nairobi's semi-formal bus system
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a MIT, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 77 Massachusetts Avenue (Building 10-485), Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, United States b Groupshot, 157 Pearl Street, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States c School of Computing and Informatics, University of Nairobi, P. O. Box 30197-00100 GPO Nairobi, Kenya d Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia University, 475 Riverside Dr. Suite 520, New York, NY 10115, United States
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تاریخ انتشار 2017