News, updates, and announcements from the Open Transit Software Foundation.
I’m delighted to announce that Brandon Martin-Anderson is the new maintainer of the OneBusAway Android app. If you’ve updated OneBusAway on your Android phone this year, you’ve already seen Brandon’s...
Waystation is now live at the heart of UC San Diego’s campus. After more than a year of development, the next-generation Sign Mode for OneBusAway is running in the real world, and it’s on track to ser...
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 ...