You may have gotten a letter from the Secretary of Transportation Anthony Foxx about the new National Transit Map project. We’re thrilled to see the USDOT joining us and other advocates of open transit data in our mission of seeing every transit agency in the United States release public GTFS data. This is a huge […]
Trillium started because of GTFS (the General Transit Feed Specification). Since then, a primary mission of this company has been to facilitate the development and adoption of open GTFS and other transportation data. Today, GTFS adoption has far exceeded critical mass. The Specification has transformed the transit software marketplace. In conversations with GTFS stakeholders, I […]
In May, I spoke with Scott Bogren of the Community Transportation of America on the CT Podcast. We discuss how information helps to make public transportation easier-to-use in the 30 minute podcast episode — how open data enables new transportation in multi-modal networks, how it opens doors for transit innovation, and reduces cost.
I’ve seen this rolling around social media: the Helsinki plan to create a centralized transportation network offering truly mutli-modal trip planning and a unified payment system, accessible through a standardized smartphone application. It’s a really impressive vision. Helsinki’s plan, I think, is developed in recognition that to offer the same flexibility as single-occupancy vehicle travel, […]