Jannis
@derhuerst
JavaScript hacker from Berlin, DE. I try to make public transport more accessible and convenient.
Beschreibung
What do you do? Why do you do it?
Public transportation is a great thing, but stuck within the status quo. Help me making public transport more user-friendly, machine-readable and accessible.
The closed systems it currently is being run with do not play well with our connected, fast-paced digital world. Proper APIs and open data are the basis for useful apps and accessible services. Public transportation will only have its full positive impact on social mobility, the environment and the city once it is as user-friendly as private means of transport, such as cars and taxis.
I got in touch with the Berlin public transport APIs by accident and I went down the rabbit hole, exploring what needs to be done in order to make using public transport services in Berlin, Germany and Europe more convenient. Fast forward four years, this has become my daily endeavour:
- I run multiple APIs that provide public transport data to apps and services. I want to maintain and enhance them further, e.g. by combining data from multiple sources.
- Because the IT behind public transport networks is mostly monopolised throughout Europe, many of my libraries can also be used to access other systems. Expanding their coverage is something that requires work.
- With friends, I created the Friendly Public Transport Format, which is an attempt (yet another) to create a truly user-friendly and un-overengineered format for public transport data. I want to create tooling to convert from and to other common formats like GTFS.
- All of my code is open source and I try to document all the knowledge I acquire. If I stopped working on this, others would be able to continue.
Why do you need money for this?
Connecting public transport networks, for the benefit of everyone, is something that almost no company considers necessary. Right now, I'm in the priveleged position of being able to live off what I have earned at my previous job at Deutsche Bahn. Financial support will allow me to keep working on what I think is needed for passenger-friendly, accessible public transport services.
Cheers! 🚌 💻 ✨
Verknüpfte Konten
derhuerst besitzt die folgenden Zugänge auf anderen Plattformen:
Repositorys
db-rest Sterne 118 vor 1 Woche aktualisiert
A clean REST API wrapping around the Deutsche Bahn API.
html-vault Sterne 36 vor 2 Wochen aktualisiert
Store a secret securely in a standalone HTML file.
serve-buffer Sterne 5 vor 8 Monaten aktualisiert
Serve a blob of binary data via HTTP, with support for range requests, conditional GET & compression.
print-gtfs-rt-cli Sterne 24 vor 8 Monaten aktualisiert
Read a GTFS Realtime feed from stdin, print human-readable or as JSON.
vbb-rest Sterne 142 vor 8 Monaten aktualisiert
An HTTP API for Berlin & Brandenburg public transport.
bvg-rest Sterne 105 vor 8 Monaten aktualisiert
An HTTP API for Berlin & Brandenburg public transport.
epsg-index Sterne 22 vor 8 Monaten aktualisiert
A machine-readable index of all EPSG coordinate systems.
vbb-lines Sterne 4 vor 8 Monaten aktualisiert
VBB lines and their stations.
parse-human-relative-time Sterne 36 vor 1 Jahr aktualisiert
Parse human relative time strings like "next Tuesday 3pm".
self-decrypting-html-page Sterne 37 vor 1 Jahr aktualisiert
Generate a standalone HTML page that decrypts data.
vbb-modules Sterne 70 vor 2 Jahren aktualisiert
List of JavaScript modules for Berlin & Brandenburg public transport.
extract-gtfs-pathways Sterne 4 vor 2 Jahren aktualisiert
Command-line tool to extract pathways from a GTFS dataset.
match-gtfs-rt-to-gtfs Sterne 5 vor 2 Jahren aktualisiert
Match HAFAS realtime data with GTFS Static data.
stable-public-transport-ids Sterne 6 vor 2 Jahren aktualisiert
Get normalized IDs for public transport stations, etc.
hafas-gtfs-rt-feed Sterne 21 vor 2 Jahren aktualisiert
Format HAFAS data as GTFS Realtime.
berlin-gtfs-rt-server Sterne 13 vor 2 Jahren aktualisiert
Expose Berlin & Brandenburg transit data as a GTFS-RT feed.
vbb-gtfs.jannisr.de Sterne 2 vor 3 Jahren aktualisiert
Mirror of Berlin & Brandenburg GTFS data with permanent URLs.
eco-counter-client Sterne 14 vor 3 Jahren aktualisiert
Fetch data about bicycle counters from the Eco Counter API.
generate-db-shop-urls Sterne 20 vor 3 Jahren aktualisiert
Given a journey, generate a URL for a matching Deutsche Bahn ticket.
merge-vbb-stations Sterne 3 vor 4 Jahren aktualisiert
Heuristic to find VBB stations & stops that should be one.
Verlauf
derhuerst ist vor 7 Jahren beigetreten.