Roadmap

The table below provides a listing of ongoing and planned enhancements to the OneBusAway open-source software by the OneBusAway community. This information evolves continuously; interested parties are invited to contribute to the discussion on the onebusaway-developers group.

Legend

• Green: Task Complete
• Yellow: Task In Progress
• Red: Task At Risk
• Proposed but not scheduled/Funded

Definitions

Status:

• Proposed – unfunded initiatives
• In progress – funded initiatives
• Complete – funded initiatives that have been finished and publicly launched

Sponsor – Agencies funding or otherwise supporting the implementation of the feature
Performing organization – Organization implementing the feature
Interested agencies – Agencies that are interested in implementing and possibly financially supporting the development of this feature

Features

GTFS-RT ADDED trip support

• Goal: Allow for dynamic trips to be added to OneBusAway
• Features:
  • Support ScheduleRelationship of ADDED per https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs-realtime/reference#enum-schedulerelationship-2
• Status:  In progress
• Target: Q4 2023
• Sponsor: NYC MTA, Sound Transit
• Interested Agencies: ALL
• Performing organization: Cambridge Systematics

GTFS-RT Service Changes v3.1 support

• Goal: Support for unscheduled subway shuttles
• Features:
  • Allow for ad-hoc shuttle bus integration
• Status:  Proposed
• Target: Q4 2023
• Sponsor: NYC MTA
• Interested Agencies: ?
• Performing organization: Cambridge Systematics

Stop Search API

• Goal:  Provide an API to support stop search autocomplete components on web/mobile
• Features:
  • Indexes all stops loaded on OBA
  • Very fast response time
  • Returns relevant details of stops
• Status:  Implemented
• Target: Q1 2023
• Sponsor: NYC MTA
• Interested Agencies: ?
• Performing organization: Cambridge Systematics

Occupancy (Crowding) Icons

• Goal: Optionally render icons instead of text for Occupancy Status
• Features:
  • Icons can be specified per deployment
• Status:  Implemented
• Target: Q1 2023
• Sponsor: WMATA
• Interested Agencies: ?
• Performing organization: Cambridge Systematics

Mobile Web Arrival and Departure Adjustments

• Goal: Align Mobile Web with signage driven off of GTFS-RT
• Features:
  • Highlight Departures at terminals
  • Otherwise highlight Arrivals
• Status:  Implemented
• Target: Q1 2023
• Sponsor: WMATA
• Interested Agencies: ?
• Performing organization: Cambridge Systematics

Arrivals and Departures for Location API

• Goal: Provide an API to return Arrivals and Departures for a lat/lon
• Features:
  • Many configurable parameters for filtering
  • Inherent sorting relative to lat/lon
• Status:  Proposed
• Target: Q4 2022
• Sponsor: NYC MTA
• Interested Agencies: ?
• Performing organization: Cambridge Systematics

Autocomplete Disambiguation

• Goal: Add additional information to autocomplete
• Features:
  • Includes additional route and stop information
• Status:  Proposed
• Target: Q2 2023
• Sponsor: Sound Transit
• Interested Agencies: ?
• Performing organization: Cambridge Systematics

Parent Stop Support

• Goal: Support GTFS parent stops
• Features:
  • Child stops reference parent (implemented)
  • Parent stops reference list of children (proposed)
  • Stop indicates what level it is at in hierarchy (proposed)
• Status: Funded / Partially Implemented
• Target: Q2 2023
• Sponsor: NYC MTA
• Interested Agencies: ?
• Performing organization: Cambridge Systematics

Improved Cancelled Trip Support

• Goal: Optionally return Cancelled Trips in OneBusAway API
• Features:
  • Configuration to enable/disable
  • Configurable in real-time for snow events, disruptions
• Status:  Implemented
• Target: Q1 2023
• Sponsor: NYC MTA
• Interested Agencies: ?
• Performing organization: Cambridge Systematics

Hide Scheduled Service by Agency

• Goal: Highlight real-time as schedule information confuses average rider
• Features:
  • Configurable by agency
  • Configurable in real-time for snow events, disruptions
• Status:  Implemented
• Target: Q1 2023
• Sponsor: WMATA
• Interested Agencies: ?
• Performing organization: Cambridge Systematics

Add Trip Planner to iOS App

• Goal: Add a Trip Planner module to the iOS app.
• Features:
  • Configurable by agency
  • Meet or exceed feature set provided by Android.
• Status:  Proposed
• Target: TBD
• Sponsor: ?
• Interested Agencies: ?
• Performing organization: Aaron Brethorst