Introduction The General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS), which describes public transit routes, stops, schedules, and fares, recently celebrated its 12th birthday! Over the course of its life, the GTFS has shown the transportation industry how a data specification can gain widespread adoption to enable new applications. Of course, there are many other important parts of […]
This is an update to the Multimodal transportation data formats (& gaps) roundup, July 2016. How do we describe the whole transportation network? Introduction: towards comprehensive data The multimodal transportation network is greater than the sum of its parts. Abundant mode options — including public transit, bikeshare, carshare, ride hailing (TNC), rideshare, and vanpool — complement each other […]
This month, Trillium started covering the all public transit costs for our employees. As a company that is always working to make public transit easier to use, we are excited to offer this benefit to our team. Costs like this at a small company are tough. Even though we wanted to do this for a […]
One of the remarkable things about an open data specification such as GTFS is that it finds itself in all kinds of places—from trip-planners and mapping applications to network planning software. Now, it has infiltrated website development thanks to a grant from ODOT through the Northwest Oregon Transit Alliance (NWOTA). We’re excited to announce the […]