TriMet (OR) recently shared details of its OpenTripPlanner project with about three dozen Portland-area transportation and data experts. The open source multi-modal trip planner is still a work in progress — a beta release is expected in Spring 2011 — but people can check out the demo site while they’re waiting. Michael Andersen writes about the project in BikePortland.org:
But here’s the thing that’s got good-government types excited about the project: both the tool and its API will be entirely open-source. That means that once TriMet and its partners finish their work, agencies around the world will be able to use it – and keep improving it – for free. And third-party developers will be able to use it for smartphone apps nobody’s dreamt of yet.
“Anything is possible,” TriMet’s IT manager Bibiana McHugh said. “We’ve got the richest, most valuable data in the world here. I think this is the place to do it.” OpenTripPlanner is a collaborative effort among TriMet, OpenPlans, and the developers of FivePoints, OneBusAway, Graphserver, and byCycle. Link to full story in BikePortland.org.
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