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

· webmaster

OTSF Annual Meeting Jan 10, 2022

Our annual meeting will be January 10, 2022, 10am - noon Pacific Time (18:00-20:00 UTC), online. Tentative agenda: WelcomeElection of 2022 BoardTransit Agency / Regional Instance Yearly UpdatesOneBu...

· webmaster

RFP - Public Relations Consultant

The Open Transit Software Foundation is requesting proposals for a public relations consultant to create materials to promote OneBusAway and OTSF! The initial proposal should be for a fixed-price con...

· Aaron Brethorst

Meet OBAKit - The New OneBusAway for iOS

I'm very excited to announce that after over two years of development, the latest version of OneBusAway for iOS is ready for public beta testing! If you want to dive right in and try out the new app, ...

· 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...