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One-stop shopping for transit applications

December 11, 2009

City-Go-Round is a new website that helps transit riders find useful applications in their cities. Besides trying to make public transit more convenient, the site hopes to encourage agencies to make their data publicly available.

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MassDOT holds first developers conference

November 15, 2009

The Massachusetts Department of Transportation hosted its first developers conference on Saturday.

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San Francisco issues open data directive

October 23, 2009

San Francisco (CA) Mayor Gavin Newsom announced a new open data policy that asks city departments to make all datasets that are not considered confidential available on DataSF.org.

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DC issues iPhone app for Circulator

October 2, 2009

According to Greater Greater Washington, the District of Columbia’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer announced an iPhone application for tracking the DC Circulator.

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Coalition formed to promote open-source software

July 23, 2009

More than 50 companies, academic institutions, communities and individuals formed Open Source for America, a coalition to promote federal adoption of open-source software.

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TriMet riders benefit from third-party apps

July 17, 2009

The Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon, in Portland, has launched an app center on its website.

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Who owns Muni real-time data?

June 29, 2009

Several San Francisco (CA) blogs are covering a fascinating story about the use of San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s real-time data.

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Hydrogen car design to be open source

June 18, 2009

The Riversimple hydrogen car, unveiled in London this week, will make its designs available online to support local production and to encourage innovation.

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New York City adds new features to GIS application

April 27, 2009

The City of New York has updated its online GIS tool with new data layers and mapping features.

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Open source and open data make for transit innovation

March 25, 2009

For More Riders Magazine, Aaron Antrim interviewed two of the key IT managers at the Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation  District of  Oregon, in Portland:  Tim McHugh, TriMet’s Chief Technology Officer and Bibiana McHugh, IT Manager of GIS and Location-Based Services.  Their wide-ranging conversation covered TriMet’s efforts to make route and schedule data available to the developer [...]

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