In the News and Research
2025
2024
- An ode to the Seattle public bus system - UW Daily
2023
- OneBusAway needs ‘influx of cash’ to hire dedicated developer and keep popular transit app running – Geekwire
- Happiness is Just One Bus Away – University of Washington Magazine
2022
- 10 best transit apps and transportation apps for Android – Android Authority
2019
- Public transit users can now ask Amazon’s Alexa, “Where’s my bus?” – Metro Magazine
- OneBusAway app helping riders with disabilities navigate public transit in the Tampa Bay area – ABC Action News
- TECO Tampa streetcar schedule now available in real-time – Creative Loafing Tampa
- 7 Public Transit Tracker Apps to Help You Arrive on Time – MakeUseOf
2016
- There Are Plenty of Apps Besides NextBus to Tell You When Your Bus Will Arrive – Washingtonian
- Metro Says ‘Next’ To NextBus – DCist
- Apple Maps adds public-transit directions in Seattle – Seattle Times
2015
- Transit technology works for you – The Platform
- Seattle-area traffic apps hungry for your data to make commute easier – Seattle Times
- OneBusAway creator brings Seattle’s real-time transit data to Google Maps – GeekWire
2014
- OneBusAway App Now Tracks MARTA Trains in Real Time – Georgia Tech News Center
- StopInfo for OneBusAway app makes buses more usable for blind riders – UW News
2013
- Real Time Bus Tracking Available with HART App – Patch.com
2011
- UW Students: How to Ride the Bus – Seattle Transit Blog
2009
Research Papers
Brian Ferris, Kari Watkins, and Alan Borning, “OneBusAway: Location-Aware Tools for Improving Public Transit Usability,” IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 9 No. 1, Jan-March 2010, pages 13-19.
Brian Ferris, Kari Watkins, and Alan Borning, “OneBusAway: Results from Providing Real-Time Arrival Information for Public Transit,” CHI 2010 (Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems) (CHI), April 2010, Atlanta, Georgia.
Brian Ferris, Kari Watkins, and Alan Borning, “OneBusAway: Behavioral and Satisfaction Changes Resulting from Providing Real-Time Arrival Information for Public Transit,” Proceedings of the 2011 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting.
Kari Watkins, Brian Ferris, Alan Borning, G. Scott Rutherford, and David Layton, “Where Is My Bus? Impact of Mobile Real Time Information on the Perceived and Actual Wait Time of Transit Riders,” Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Vol. 45 No. 8, Oct 2011, Pages 839-848.
Aaron Gooze, Kari Watkins, and Alan Borning, “Benefits of Real-Time Transit Information and Impacts of Data Accuracy on Rider Experience,” Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board 2351, no. 1, 2013, pages 95-103.
Sean Barbeau, Alan Borning, and Kari Watkins, “OneBusAway Multi-Region – Rapidly Expanding Mobile Transit Apps to New Cities,” Journal of Public Transportation, Vol. 17 No. 4, 2014, pages 14-34.