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- Few resources are available for passengers to navigate across jurisdictions
- Majority of Rural Transit services do not follow a fixed route, but rather operate “Demand Response” services
- No open source software option exists for demand response.
- Without the ability to share information with connecting services effectiveness is severely limited
- Lack of information and/or rental accommodations at heavy cyclist locations like Exeter, Durham, Dover, Saco and OOB creates a missed opportunity for cyclists, station communities and the economy as a whole.
Network with existing development initatives and explore potential of adding demand response support.
- OpenTripPlanner
- OneBusAway
After establishing a solid platform of GTFS, OSM and real-time location data the potential for innovation is significantly greater. In rural regions where the transportation options are much more dispersed, travel planning must allow for substantially greater flexibility. Just as proprietary vehicle tracking hardware Two of the more promising projects currently in development are open source transit software applications called OpenTripPlanner and OneBusAway.
OpenTripPlanner (OTP) is a collaborative effort among TriMet (the public transportation agency serving Portland, OR, USA), and several non-profit/private software development organizations to develop an open-source multimodal trip planning software system.
OneBusAway was created by a college student in Seattle when he found the local transit information was inaccessible to the vast majority of users. He designed OneBusAway as an application suite in order to be a flexible and user-friendly as possible. Instead of providing information through a single medium such as a mobile app (which could only be accessed by riders with smart phones) OneBusAway “shares real-time public transit information with riders across a variety of interfaces, including Web, Developer APIs, Apps for smart-phones, SMS, and Phone IVR.” Like OpenTripPlaner, OneBusAway is free and open source, which has allowed it to grow and adapt whenever a new deployment arises. The development of OneBusAwayBA reached a new level when New York City MTA partnered with non-profit OpenPlans (www.openplans.org) toadapt its source code for a new real-time bus tracking program called BusTime.