BusMinder

BusMinder manages reminders for public transit users.

What is BusMinder

BusMinder is an Open Source (AGPL) web application that creates email and SMS reminders, based on real-time public transit information.

Where is BusMinder

There is no currently known instance of BusMinder running at the moment.

The reference implementation of BusMinder was generously sponsored by Azavea's internal research program, but was taken down based on a pantent (Patent No. 6,741,927) claim by Martin Kelly Jones, ArrivalStar S.A. and Melvino Technology Limited. Because the code was already available under an open source license, we have continued to make it available for research purposes, but please be aware that you may need to negotiate a license for its public or commercial use.

Why Create Another App?

This application was inspired by the MBTA's Real Time Application Challenge, held in February of 2010. The application was designed to showcase what could be done with real-time information coming from buses and other public transit vehicles.

The application evolved, and generalized the transit agencies, and now supports multiple transit agencies. At the time of this writing (January 3rd, 2011), BusMinder supports the following transit agencies:

• AC Transit: Oakland, CA and the East Bay metro area
• California University of Pennsylvania: California, PA campus shuttle
• Charles River EZRide: Cambridge, MA commuter shuttle
• Charm City Circulator: Baltimore, MD commuter shuttle
• DC Circulator: Washington DC
• MBTA: Boston, MA metro area
• MIT: Cambridge, MA MIT campus shuttle
• Portland Streetcar: Portland, OR streetcars
• Rutgers: Rutgers main and Newark campus shuttles
• SF Muni: San Francisco, CA buses, trolleys, streetcars, and cable cars
• Toronto TTC: Toronto, ON Transit Commission
• Unitrans: Davis, CA University of California at Davis campus shuttle
• Western Kentucky University: Bowling Green, KY campus shuttle

How To Participate?

You can help make BusMinder better! Go to the project wiki to find out more information about what you can do to bring BusMinder to your city, or make it better.

Thank You

A big thank-you goes out to Azavea, for funding a portion of the development of BusMinder, and providing the infrastructure and support for the reference implementation of BusMinder.

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