OneBusAway supports a variety of research at the University of Washington on improving the usability of public transportation. Our work is all open-source software so that others might reuse and build open our efforts.

Publications

• Ferris, B., Watkins, K., and Borning, A. (2010) "OneBusAway: Results from Providing Real-Time Arrival Information for Public Transit." Proceedings of CHI 2010. Atlanta, GA, USA, April 10 - 15, 2010.
  • Best Paper Nominee
  • Paper - local pdf (0.5 MB)
  • Primary Survey - local pdf - 200k
  • Follow-up Walking Survey - local pdf - 120k

• Watkins, K., Ferris, B. (2010) "Explore: An Attraction Search Tool for Transit Trip Planning." Proceedings of the 2010 Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting.
  • paper - local pdf (1.6 MB)
  • poster - local pdf (1.9 MB)

• Ferris, B., Watkins, K., and Borning, A. (2010) "Location-Aware Tools for Improving Public Transit Usability." IEEE Pervasive Computing. Vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 13-19. Jan-Mar 2010.
  • local pdf (1.8 MB) - © IEEE

• Ferris, B., Watkins, K., and Borning, A. (2009) "OneBusAway: A Transit Traveller Information System." Proceedings of Mobicase 2009. San Diego, CA, USA, October 26-29, 2009.
  • local pdf (1 MB)
  • Powerpoint slides (2.6 MB)

Funding

Thanks to Nokia Research Center, Google, and the National Science Foundation under Grants IIS-0705898 and CNS-0905384 for financially helping to support this project!