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