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How to schedule a Brigade Saturday Meetup for National Day of Civic Hacking
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“The easiest, most reliable way to connect to the internet, anywhere in the world, even when you don’t have electricity”— No power? No Internet? Rugged...
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Third Rail is a Game That Lets You Redesign the Subway System
Here’s how it works: Each turn, you build some track and add a new station....
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Historical Map: Boston Commuter Rail, 1976
Here’s a fine piece of mid-1970s transit map design, showing Boston’s extensive commuter rail network....
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Transit Map Typefaces: Grotesque Sans (Part 1 of 4)
This series of posts is inspired by an anonymous poster, who requested some information on...
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Beautifully minimalist line-drawing postcards of London Underground train depots. Complement with a pictorial history of how...
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Code for Hampton Roads Deploys One Bus Away
Code for Hampton Roads is in the process of standing up OneBusAway to provide real time bus data to...
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06 - Installing a 10" Touch Screen on the Raspberry
In this post we will connect and setup a capacitive touchscreen to work on the Raspberry Pi. But...
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03 - Printing a receipt with the Raspberry Pi
By reading this tutorial you will learn to use your cute raspberry pi to do this :
We will...
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02 - Initial setup of the Raspberry Pi
I’m gonna write down some thoughts on the simple steps I followed to have a...
How to schedule a Brigade Saturday Meetup for National Day of Civic Hacking
Code for Hampton Roads Deploys One Bus Away
Code for Hampton Roads is in the process of standing up OneBusAway to provide real time bus data to Hampton Roads Transit bus riders. Today we gave the system it’s first real world test and it worked flawlessly! The bus arrived exactly 2 minutes late, just as the app had predicted.
OneBusAway is an open source application using open transit data to provide real time updates through anything from Text messages to mobile apps to web browsers to public display screens. In a state like Maine where information access can vary widely depending on age demographics, wireless coverage and other factors, the flexibility and affordabilty of OneBusAway makes it by far the best solution.
These guys just keep coming up with better and better stuff! First it was the California Map, then it was HSR and now they’re just wrapping up a successful Kickstarter campaign to design something we’ve been trying to do for two years! A map of every passenger rail system (Light Rail, Subway, Commuter, Amtrak Etc…) in the Northeast!!!
Take our word for it… THIS IS NOT EASY TO DO!
Over the past 4 years, public transit agencies all over the world are discovering the benefits of opening up their vehicle schedules and location feeds to third-party developers. The best known outcome of this can be found in the thousands of mobile apps developed for iPhone, Android and other systems. The fact remains however, that there will always be situations where mobile-based info is less than optimal, which is why a smaller, but inventive group of developers have been looking into ways to convert ordinary video screens into full size transit information screens. As far as I know, the first open source transit display was a version of the “Transit Appliance” based on the now-defunct “Chumby OS”. But it was with the Raspberry Pi Microcomputer that this idea really started taking off! In the process of documenting our own implementation, CarFree Maine has been documenting the status of every Open Transit Display project we can find on Github. Feel free to submit a suggestion to the OpenTransit Project if you know of a project we are leaving out.
opentransitwiki - A pilot project to improve rural transit accessibility through open source software and hardware.
In this post we will connect and setup a capacitive touchscreen to work on the Raspberry Pi. But first let me say thank you to the first user who used flattr to donate a small amount to support the content of this blog. If you want to try flattr (co-founded by one dude of piratebay), just…
The California Rail Map shows all transit connection, Rail, Bus and Ferry within the State of California. This is something CarFree Maine been trying to do for over a year for the Northeast so we can appreciate how much work must’ve gone into this!
From the official Blog of the US Secretary of Transportation-
High-speed rail has been one of the defining initiatives at the Department of Transportation since President Obama took office in 2009. His vision for safe, efficient, and convenient high-speed intercity train service is a vision shared by travelers all across the country. And from coast to coast, 2012 saw many exciting developments on the high-speed rail front. (Click Title For Article)
LocalData, An App That Helps Communities Do Their Own Urban Planning
Developed by Code for America fellows: Alicia Rouault, Matt Hampel and Prashant Singh
TransportationCamp is returning to DC!
On January 12 2013, meet thinkers and doers at the intersection of transportation and technology. Get ready to talk and learn about improving mobility, information design methods, bike share systems, and more… It’s an unconference - it’s up to you.
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