The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT)’s recently released Key Transit Hub Report and Transit Network Report mark two more milestones in their utilization of GTFS data for planning, analysis, and coordination. The Key Transit Hub Report describes using GTFS data to identify “Key Transit Hubs” (KTH), defined as a transit stop or cluster of stops […]
“On or about” August 9th marks OpenStreetMap’s 16th birthday! OpenStreetMap was founded in 2004 and is an international project to create a free map of the world. OSM is behind all Trillium’s Interactive Maps and OpenTripPlanner installations, and it looks great doing it. Beauty aside, the accuracy of the street and sidewalk grid plays an […]
This past December, Trillium was given the opportunity to travel to Farroupilha, a city in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, to participate in the ByBus Project. Our goal: map the city’s entire bus system with the help of local volunteers. That may sound ambitious, but the community had been supporting this venture long before we […]
GTFS is for everyone. At Trillium, we know what a powerful tool it is, and one of our goals is to make this data spec broadly accessible. Trusted training materials make GTFS and its benefits more accessible. To that end, Trillium volunteered to expand on our previous work with the World Bank (see GTFS examples), […]