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Python context managers for CFFI resource management
Legacy AVL system? It's okay, join the club.
Reprogramming a u-blox MAX-7Q in-situ on a Raspberry Pi
How should transit agencies make their GTFS available?
Apps ≇ frequency
Why "they're not on NextBus" isn't the problem it sounds like
Synoptic first!
Traction motor, HVAC unit, AVL system?
Building Momentum with open data, open source, and open architecture
What's wrong with the NextBus API?
Passively open, actively closed
GTFS-realtime for WMATA buses
Open standards are a force multiplier for civic software
Bringing OpenTripPlanner and OneBusAway to DC to improve rider experience
Journey history as open data, and cooperation with developers
Celebrating regional mobility
Automating transit alert selection using fare collection data
Context-free trip planning
WMATA's open data efforts are good, but could be better
Taming MTA New York City Transit's bus GTFS feeds
Announcing htmlbib, a tool for rendering BibTeX files as interactive HTML
It's 2011. Do you know where your buses are?
Human factors in rail signalling accidents, and the role of backup systems
Using the Common Alerting Protocol for transit alerts
Does Twitter provide a good substitute for costly SMS services?
27 hours on the IRT: visualizing ATS data
Making transit alert feeds effective
Maryland's new 511 system falls short of expectations
Do-it-yourself WMATA train arrival display
More on social media for transit agencies
Google Apps Script: like AppleScript for the Web
41 of the top 50 transit agencies use Twitter. Does yours?
What can we do with station subtitles?
What role do developers play in open payment?
Heritage trains and CBTC
Metro Forward: how you turn a transit agency around
Sustaining signage systems
How do we show the value of HSR?
Tar River Transit: not the 'alternative'
WMATA releases NextBus predictions; introduces another proprietary format
Locational privacy in open payment
More weekend closures, less single-tracking for Metrorail
Station names are about system usability, not neighborhood identity
Using shortDOIs automatically in BibDesk
GTFS direction_id on loops
Updates to tph.py
Announcing aerodb
Rider feedback for transit systems: the good and the bad
Looking at PATH's service with GTFS data
A Python script for visualizing GTFS data
Visualizing transit service levels using GTFS data
Passenger information systems for consolidated bus terminals
Notes on bi-directional signalling
Kermit: more than a file transfer program, a tangible link to the past
Where does Chromaroma's data come from?
Fare policy ≠ fare collection equipment
Verifone: Square's not the problem, but EMV is the solution
Your smartphone is not an AVL solution
Documentation for geolucidate
Transparency in artificial intelligence
FareBot: reading ORCA cards on Android
What can you do in 300 ms?
MultiStreamer, a work in progress
Software package updates
Metrorail station codes
Starbucks mobile payment: neat, but not novel
The case of the not-so-electronic application
First airports, now airlines
More free airport data
Cheap airport data
BBC transport article ignores the facts
Librelist: where ideology trumps usability
A novel method for inserting elements in text with lxml
Reviewing WMATA’s Transparent Metro Data Sets initiative
Updates to geolucidate
XML misconceptions harm interoperability
A tool for evaluating academic programs
Notes on the design of student information systems
Announcing geolucidate
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