Jannis R
@derhuerst
JavaScript hacker from Berlin, DE. I try to make public transport more accessible and convenient.
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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! 🚌 💻 ✨
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Repositoriot
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Store a secret securely in a standalone HTML file.
self-decrypting-html-page Tähdet 34 Päivitetty tällä viikolla
Generate a standalone HTML page that decrypts data.
hafas-gtfs-rt-feed Tähdet 16 Päivitetty 1 kuukausi sitten
Format HAFAS data as GTFS Realtime.
db-rest Tähdet 76 Päivitetty 1 kuukausi sitten
A clean REST API wrapping around the Deutsche Bahn API.
vbb-rest Tähdet 123 Päivitetty 2 kuukautta sitten
An HTTP API for Berlin & Brandenburg public transport.
match-gtfs-rt-to-gtfs Tähdet 5 Päivitetty 2 kuukautta sitten
Match HAFAS realtime data with GTFS Static data.
stable-public-transport-ids Tähdet 4 Päivitetty 3 kuukautta sitten
Get normalized IDs for public transport stations, etc.
berlin-gtfs-rt-server Tähdet 12 Päivitetty 3 kuukautta sitten
Expose Berlin & Brandenburg transit data as a GTFS-RT feed.
bvg-rest Tähdet 78 Päivitetty 4 kuukautta sitten
An HTTP API for Berlin & Brandenburg public transport.
vbb-lines Tähdet 3 Päivitetty 4 kuukautta sitten
VBB lines and their stations.
extract-gtfs-pathways Tähdet 3 Päivitetty 4 kuukautta sitten
Command-line tool to extract pathways from a GTFS dataset.
epsg-index Tähdet 18 Päivitetty 6 kuukautta sitten
A machine-readable index of all EPSG coordinate systems.
parse-human-relative-time Tähdet 29 Päivitetty 9 kuukautta sitten
Parse human relative time strings like "next Tuesday 3pm".
vbb-gtfs.jannisr.de Tähdet 2 Päivitetty 10 kuukautta sitten
Mirror of Berlin & Brandenburg GTFS data with permanent URLs.
eco-counter-client Tähdet 14 Päivitetty 1 vuosi sitten
Fetch data about bicycle counters from the Eco Counter API.
print-gtfs-rt-cli Tähdet 17 Päivitetty 1 vuosi sitten
Read a GTFS Realtime feed from stdin, print human-readable or as JSON.
generate-db-shop-urls Tähdet 19 Päivitetty 1 vuosi sitten
Given a journey, generate a URL for a matching Deutsche Bahn ticket.
merge-vbb-stations Tähdet 3 Päivitetty 1 vuosi sitten
Heuristic to find VBB stations & stops that should be one.
hvv-rest Tähdet 8 Päivitetty 1 vuosi sitten
An HTTP API for Hamburg public transport.
redis-stream Tähdet 7 Päivitetty 2 vuotta sitten
Redis 5 Streams as readable & writable Node streams. Plus a CLI.
Historia
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