GTFS has helped the transit industry begin to develop a “stack” of layered services. In computing, a software stack or solution stack is the set of systems that create a complete platform to run applications. We have begun to see the emergence of a transit stack. In order to describe and explore this, I created […]
Transitland is opening up doors to conveniently find and use transit data (see Thomas’s earlier June 2016 Trillium blog post on Transitland). To get a full understanding of the Transitland project, its ambitions, and the opportunities it is opening, I talked with Drew Dara-Abrams (Twitter: @drewdaraabrams), head of mobility products at Mapzen. Below is the full text of our interview. Thank you, Drew, for […]
Looking for access to GTFS data for an agency managed or supported by Trillium to utilize in an app you’re building? Turn to Transitland, an open-source GTFS aggregator and API hosted and maintained by Mapzen. At Trillium we make and maintain GTFS data for about 200 transit agencies across the US. Transitland is, we think, […]