TriMet (OR) recently shared details of its open source multi-modal trip planner project with about three dozen Portland-area transportation and data experts.
Thanks to some tech-savvy graduates of the Stevens Institute of Technology, passengers can track the location of Hoboken’s community shuttle The Hop (NJ).
Writing for IBM’s developerWorks series, Scott Davis presents an overview of online transit resources from Google Maps to City-Go-Round and mobile applications like One Bus Away.
The City of Portland (OR) has launched CivicApps for Greater Portland to encourage developers to find ways to use government information in useful and interesting ways.
In a turnaround from previous pollicy, the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority will make its route and schedule data available through a developers page on its redesigned website.
Susan Bregman is editor of The Transit Wire. She has been a consultant on transit policy and planning for fifteen years and before that worked for the Boston Transportation Department. In 2004 she founded Oak Square Resources, LLC, which focuses on transit research, policy, and communications.