News, updates, and announcements from the Open Transit Software Foundation.
OTSF now has an Executive Director! Our new director is Aaron Brethorst, who has been active for many years as a volunteer with OTSF and the OneBusAway project, including serving as the primary devel...
Aaron Steinfeld, Carnegie Mellon University When we recently shut down the public, deployed version of the Tiramisu Transit app, I sent a personal note to Kari Watkins and Sean Barbeau. We have colla...
OTSF recently contracted with Garnet Consulting to produce a set of case studies of OneBusAway deployments, to freshen up our website, and to write a one-page flyer that can be distributed to prospect...
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...
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...
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, ...
Our annual meeting is normally held in conjunction with the Transportation Research Board annual meeting. This year's annual meeting, like TRB itself, will be entirely virtual, and will be 1pm-3pm EST...
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 ...
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...
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...