Blog

News, updates, and announcements from the Open Transit Software Foundation.

· Kari Watkins

OneBusAway and COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all of us and all areas of society. Public transit has been hit hard, with ridership way down, and many agencies moving to fare-free service. Bus drivers are on the ...

· Alan Borning

"White Label" versions of the OneBusAway apps

Quality real-time transit information is critically important to transit riders. Many transit agencies recognize this and want to offer cutting-edge services to their transit riders. However, most tra...

· Alan Borning

OneBusAway in the News: Alexa, Destination Reminders

Over the winter break Metro Magazine and the local ABC news affiliate in Tampa picked up two stories related to the Alexa personalization features and destination reminders in OneBusAway, based on the...

· Alan Borning

2020 Annual Meeting

We've had an annual meeting of the OneBusAway project for quite a few years, and we are happy to announce that starting this coming year it will become the annual meeting of the new Open Transit Softw...

· Alan Borning

Spokane, Washington added as new OneBusAway region

Real-time and schedule data from Spokane Transit Authority (STA) is now available via OneBusAway, using the multi-region facility. The project to make STA's data available was done by a group of East...

· Kari Watkins

Trip planning on Android phone turned off for now

tl;dr: What - Until further notice, we need to turn off trip planning in OneBusAway on Android. Why - Google is charging our non-profit ~$1,000 every month to provide this feature to you a...

· Alan Borning

Open Transit Software Foundation now a 501(c)(3)

Our application to the Internal Revenue Service to recognize the Open Transit Software Foundation as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit has been approved! Contributions to OTSF are now tax-deductible; this will al...

· webmaster

Open Transit Software Foundation formed

We have now formed an official nonprofit organization, the Open Transit Software Foundation, as a home for the OneBusAway project! More details and an OTSF website will be coming soon. The organizatio...

· webmaster

Ten Years Later, OneBusAway Still Thrives

After ten years of existence, OneBusAway keeps on growing. At the Transportation Research Board conference in Washington DC earlier this month, OneBusAway joined forces with OpenTripPlanner to host it...