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Jannis R
@derhuerst

JavaScript hacker from Berlin, DE. I try to make public transport more accessible and convenient.

derhuerst's goal is to receive €10.00 per week.
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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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Repositories

vbb-rest 117 Updated 1 week ago

An HTTP API for Berlin & Brandenburg public transport.

db-rest 60 Updated 1 week ago

A clean REST API wrapping around the Deutsche Bahn API.

epsg-index 15 Updated 3 weeks ago

A machine-readable index of all EPSG coordinate systems.

parse-human-relative-time 25 Updated 1 month ago

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

vbb-gtfs.jannisr.de 1 Updated 2 months ago

Mirror of Berlin & Brandenburg GTFS data with permanent URLs.

html-vault 32 Updated 3 months ago

Store a secret securely in a standalone HTML file.

self-decrypting-html-page 33 Updated 3 months ago

Generate a standalone HTML page that decrypts data.

eco-counter-client 13 Updated 3 months ago

Fetch data about bicycle counters from the Eco Counter API.

bvg-rest 69 Updated 5 months ago

An HTTP API for Berlin & Brandenburg public transport.

match-gtfs-rt-to-gtfs 5 Updated 6 months ago

Match HAFAS realtime data with GTFS Static data.

hafas-gtfs-rt-feed 13 Updated 6 months ago

Format HAFAS data as GTFS Realtime.

berlin-gtfs-rt-server 9 Updated 6 months ago

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

print-gtfs-rt-cli 16 Updated 7 months ago

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

generate-db-shop-urls 18 Updated 8 months ago

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

extract-gtfs-pathways 3 Updated 9 months ago

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

merge-vbb-stations 3 Updated 10 months ago

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

vbb-lines 3 Updated 10 months ago

VBB lines and their stations.

hvv-rest 8 Updated 10 months ago

An HTTP API for Hamburg public transport.

redis-stream 7 Updated 1 year ago

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

synchronous-autocomplete 11 Updated 1 year ago

Fast, simple autocompletion.

History

derhuerst joined 4 years ago.

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