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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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代码库

html-vault 星标数 33 本周更新

Store a secret securely in a standalone HTML file.

self-decrypting-html-page 星标数 34 本周更新

Generate a standalone HTML page that decrypts data.

hafas-gtfs-rt-feed 星标数 16 1个月前 更新

Format HAFAS data as GTFS Realtime.

db-rest 星标数 76 1个月前 更新

A clean REST API wrapping around the Deutsche Bahn API.

vbb-rest 星标数 123 2个月前 更新

An HTTP API for Berlin & Brandenburg public transport.

match-gtfs-rt-to-gtfs 星标数 5 2个月前 更新

Match HAFAS realtime data with GTFS Static data.

stable-public-transport-ids 星标数 4 3个月前 更新

Get normalized IDs for public transport stations, etc.

berlin-gtfs-rt-server 星标数 12 3个月前 更新

Expose Berlin & Brandenburg transit data as a GTFS-RT feed.

bvg-rest 星标数 78 4个月前 更新

An HTTP API for Berlin & Brandenburg public transport.

vbb-lines 星标数 3 4个月前 更新

VBB lines and their stations.

extract-gtfs-pathways 星标数 3 4个月前 更新

Command-line tool to extract pathways from a GTFS dataset.

epsg-index 星标数 18 6个月前 更新

A machine-readable index of all EPSG coordinate systems.

parse-human-relative-time 星标数 29 9个月前 更新

Parse human relative time strings like "next Tuesday 3pm".

vbb-gtfs.jannisr.de 星标数 2 10个月前 更新

Mirror of Berlin & Brandenburg GTFS data with permanent URLs.

eco-counter-client 星标数 14 1年前 更新

Fetch data about bicycle counters from the Eco Counter API.

print-gtfs-rt-cli 星标数 17 1年前 更新

Read a GTFS Realtime feed from stdin, print human-readable or as JSON.

generate-db-shop-urls 星标数 19 1年前 更新

Given a journey, generate a URL for a matching Deutsche Bahn ticket.

merge-vbb-stations 星标数 3 1年前 更新

Heuristic to find VBB stations & stops that should be one.

hvv-rest 星标数 8 1年前 更新

An HTTP API for Hamburg public transport.

redis-stream 星标数 7 2年前 更新

Redis 5 Streams as readable & writable Node streams. Plus a CLI.

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