Jannis
@derhuerst
JavaScript hacker from Berlin, DE. I try to make public transport more accessible and convenient.
Popis
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! 🚌 💻 ✨
Propojené účty
derhuerst vlastní na jiných platformách následující účty:
Repozitáře
db-rest Hvězdy 118 Upraveno před 1 týdnem
A clean REST API wrapping around the Deutsche Bahn API.
html-vault Hvězdy 36 Upraveno před 2 týdny
Store a secret securely in a standalone HTML file.
serve-buffer Hvězdy 5 Upraveno před 8 měsíci
Serve a blob of binary data via HTTP, with support for range requests, conditional GET & compression.
print-gtfs-rt-cli Hvězdy 24 Upraveno před 8 měsíci
Read a GTFS Realtime feed from stdin, print human-readable or as JSON.
vbb-rest Hvězdy 142 Upraveno před 8 měsíci
An HTTP API for Berlin & Brandenburg public transport.
bvg-rest Hvězdy 105 Upraveno před 8 měsíci
An HTTP API for Berlin & Brandenburg public transport.
epsg-index Hvězdy 22 Upraveno před 8 měsíci
A machine-readable index of all EPSG coordinate systems.
vbb-lines Hvězdy 4 Upraveno před 8 měsíci
VBB lines and their stations.
parse-human-relative-time Hvězdy 36 Upraveno před 1 rokem
Parse human relative time strings like "next Tuesday 3pm".
self-decrypting-html-page Hvězdy 37 Upraveno před 1 rokem
Generate a standalone HTML page that decrypts data.
vbb-modules Hvězdy 70 Upraveno před 2 lety
List of JavaScript modules for Berlin & Brandenburg public transport.
extract-gtfs-pathways Hvězdy 4 Upraveno před 2 lety
Command-line tool to extract pathways from a GTFS dataset.
match-gtfs-rt-to-gtfs Hvězdy 5 Upraveno před 2 lety
Match HAFAS realtime data with GTFS Static data.
stable-public-transport-ids Hvězdy 6 Upraveno před 2 lety
Get normalized IDs for public transport stations, etc.
hafas-gtfs-rt-feed Hvězdy 21 Upraveno před 2 lety
Format HAFAS data as GTFS Realtime.
berlin-gtfs-rt-server Hvězdy 13 Upraveno před 2 lety
Expose Berlin & Brandenburg transit data as a GTFS-RT feed.
vbb-gtfs.jannisr.de Hvězdy 2 Upraveno před 3 lety
Mirror of Berlin & Brandenburg GTFS data with permanent URLs.
eco-counter-client Hvězdy 14 Upraveno před 3 lety
Fetch data about bicycle counters from the Eco Counter API.
generate-db-shop-urls Hvězdy 20 Upraveno před 3 lety
Given a journey, generate a URL for a matching Deutsche Bahn ticket.
merge-vbb-stations Hvězdy 3 Upraveno před 4 lety
Heuristic to find VBB stations & stops that should be one.
Historie
derhuerst se přidal před 7 lety.