OTP Kick-off Workshop, Portland, OR, July 15-17, 2009

In July 2009 a three-day workshop was hosted by TriMet, bringing together a number of developers and practitioners interested in the topic of open source multimodal trip planning. It was at this workshop that the OpenTripPlanner project was formally established. Below are some of the notes and materials from the event.

• Notes from group exercise: Problems with current trip planners

• Notes from group exercise: Brainstorming and prioritization session

• Technical and architectural notes from developer workshop session

Links to sites/tools mentioned

• http://goroo.com - Goroo, Chicago RTA's mmtp

• http://trimet.org/apps - TriMet App Center

• http://onebusaway.org - One Bus Away

• http://bycycle.org - byCycle trip planner

• http://ride.trimet.org - TriMet system map / new trip planner

• http://transitandtrails.org

• http://tripplanner.kingcounty.gov - King Cty's trip planner

• http://new.atltransit.com - Five Points-powered Atlanta trip planner

• http://www.urbansim.org - Simulation model for integrated planning and analysis of urban development

• http://groups.google.com/group/transit-developers - Transit developers google group

• http://ridethecity.com - Ride the City: Bike routing app in NYC