A New Open Source Dispatch Tool: Adapting the MBTA’s Skate

At CS, we’ve been working with open source transit software like OneBusAway and OpenTripPlanner for many years, and we believe in the community benefits...

COVID-19 & Transit: Technological Innovations in Social Distancing

Do you take transit? Work in transit? If you answer yes to either, your experience is jarring: Transit has been turned upside down. News headlines have...

Streamlining HART’s Emergency Communications during Hurricane Ian with the OneBusAway Platform

In mid-September, during a regular meeting between the CS Software team and the Hillsborough Area Regional Transit Authority (HART), the team asked if it...

How to Avoid “Ghost Buses” and Other Pitfalls of Using Real-time Bus Data

“Ghost buses” are buses that are displayed on real-time bus arrival apps, but never show up. This can happen when a scheduled bus is taken out of service...