Draft:OneBusAway

OneBusAway projects aim to improve the experience of public transportation riders by offering up-to-date information on bus and train arrivals through a variety of interfaces, with iOS and Android apps, a web platform, SMS services and APIs. OneBusAway provides transit agencies tools to be able to provide the most current information to riders, without depending on the efforts of third party data providers. The OneBusAway projects are maintained through The Open Transit Software Foundation (OTSF).

Since its launch in Seattle, Washington in 2008 by University of Washington Ph.D. candidates Brian Ferris and Kari Watkins, OneBusAway has been adopted by transit agencies around the world. .

OneBusAway includes open source mobile apps for iOS and Android that use the OBA REST API and are provided in the mobile apps stores by the OTSF.

The open source mobile apps have also been used to create white-label transit apps around the world, including in Poland where the company GoEuropa has rebranded OneBusAway as KiedyBus.

Donations and Current Direction
In October 2023, Kari Watkins, the co-creator of OneBusAway, published an open letter on the Seattle Transit Blog asking for donations to help the volunteer-run project hire a developer to update the mobile apps and help OneBusAway launch in new regions. In January 2024, the official blog of the Open Transit Software Foundation announced that an Executive Director, Aaron Brethorst, a long-time volunteer on the project, had been hired, sharing that over $37,000 in donations had been raised in the fourth quarter of 2023