News, updates, and announcements from the Open Transit Software Foundation.
Maglev is a Apache 2.0 licensed Go implementation of the OneBusAway REST API. It reads GTFS static feeds and GTFS-RT feeds, serves the OBA API on top of them, and runs comfortably on a small VPS. The ...
I’m Ahmed Hossam, a Software Engineer at OTSF and a former contributor through GSoC 2024. For anyone interested in contributing to Maglev (the new Go-based server replacing the current Java-based OneB...
I’m excited to announce a new addition to the OneBusAway website: an interactive ridership map that visualizes how people are using the OneBusAway app throughout the Puget Sound region. See the Live ...
Caution: Please do not consider this list to be definitive: we have lots of ideas for projects we want to see pursued as part of GSoC 2026, but will certainly not receive as many slots as we want. The...
We've been noticing a trend across open source: an uptick in pull requests that are clearly generated by AI tools with minimal human oversight. This post establishes an official policy for how OTSF pr...
I’m thrilled to announce the release of OTPKit, a modern OpenTripPlanner library for iOS written entirely in Swift. This is a significant milestone for the OneBusAway project and, frankly, for the ent...
Caution: Please do not consider this list to be definitive: we have lots of ideas for projects we want to see pursued as part of GSoC 2025, but will certainly not receive as many slots as we want. The...
The Open Transit Software Foundation (OneBusAway) was a participant in last year's Google Summer of Code. Both the mentors and the student participants found it to be a valuable experience, and we're ...
I’m thrilled to announce the release of Wayfinder, the next-generation web application for OneBusAway. This is more than just a new web interface—it represents a fundamental shift in how we think abou...
Surveys play a key role in helping transit agencies understand the needs of their riders and ultimately to make transit easier to use. As part of our Google Summer of Code initiative, our talented int...