Jannis R
@derhuerst
JavaScript hacker from Berlin, DE. I try to make public transport more accessible and convenient.
Opis
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! 🚌 💻 ✨
Konta w innych serwisach
derhuerst posiada następujące konta na innych platformach:
Repozytoria
html-vault Gwiazdki 33 Zaktualizowano w tym tygodniu
Store a secret securely in a standalone HTML file.
self-decrypting-html-page Gwiazdki 34 Zaktualizowano w tym tygodniu
Generate a standalone HTML page that decrypts data.
hafas-gtfs-rt-feed Gwiazdki 16 Zaktualizowano 1 miesiąc temu
Format HAFAS data as GTFS Realtime.
db-rest Gwiazdki 76 Zaktualizowano 1 miesiąc temu
A clean REST API wrapping around the Deutsche Bahn API.
vbb-rest Gwiazdki 123 Zaktualizowano 2 miesiące temu
An HTTP API for Berlin & Brandenburg public transport.
match-gtfs-rt-to-gtfs Gwiazdki 5 Zaktualizowano 2 miesiące temu
Match HAFAS realtime data with GTFS Static data.
stable-public-transport-ids Gwiazdki 4 Zaktualizowano 3 miesiące temu
Get normalized IDs for public transport stations, etc.
berlin-gtfs-rt-server Gwiazdki 12 Zaktualizowano 3 miesiące temu
Expose Berlin & Brandenburg transit data as a GTFS-RT feed.
bvg-rest Gwiazdki 78 Zaktualizowano 4 miesiące temu
An HTTP API for Berlin & Brandenburg public transport.
vbb-lines Gwiazdki 3 Zaktualizowano 4 miesiące temu
VBB lines and their stations.
extract-gtfs-pathways Gwiazdki 3 Zaktualizowano 4 miesiące temu
Command-line tool to extract pathways from a GTFS dataset.
epsg-index Gwiazdki 18 Zaktualizowano 6 miesięcy temu
A machine-readable index of all EPSG coordinate systems.
parse-human-relative-time Gwiazdki 29 Zaktualizowano 9 miesięcy temu
Parse human relative time strings like "next Tuesday 3pm".
vbb-gtfs.jannisr.de Gwiazdki 2 Zaktualizowano 10 miesięcy temu
Mirror of Berlin & Brandenburg GTFS data with permanent URLs.
eco-counter-client Gwiazdki 14 Zaktualizowano 1 rok temu
Fetch data about bicycle counters from the Eco Counter API.
print-gtfs-rt-cli Gwiazdki 17 Zaktualizowano 1 rok temu
Read a GTFS Realtime feed from stdin, print human-readable or as JSON.
generate-db-shop-urls Gwiazdki 19 Zaktualizowano 1 rok temu
Given a journey, generate a URL for a matching Deutsche Bahn ticket.
merge-vbb-stations Gwiazdki 3 Zaktualizowano 1 rok temu
Heuristic to find VBB stations & stops that should be one.
hvv-rest Gwiazdki 8 Zaktualizowano 1 rok temu
An HTTP API for Hamburg public transport.
redis-stream Gwiazdki 7 Zaktualizowano 2 lata temu
Redis 5 Streams as readable & writable Node streams. Plus a CLI.
Historia
derhuerst dołączył 4 lata temu.