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OpenTripPlanner is presently at version 0.3.

The software currently:

• Plans multi-modal walking, biking and transit trips

• Takes road type, bike lane, and elevation data into account

• Shows elevation maps for bike trips

• Imports data from GTFS, shapefiles, OpenStreetMap and the National Elevation Dataset

• Plans trips in about 100ms in a moderate sized city

• Exposes a RESTful API (XML and JSON), which other apps or front-ends can build on

See the Status page for more information and the Roadmap for what's next.

An open source multi-modal trip planner, which runs on both Linux and Windows operating systems. (Looking for information on OpenTripPlanner for your agency? Then visit OpenTripPlanner.com).

Send questions and comments to the user mailing list.

Chat with us via IRC on Freenode channel #opentripplanner or chat through the web

See the OTP NYC demo, plus other working instances of OTP.

http://maps5.trimet.org/otp-dev/otp.zip (90 megs)

Please see the following tutorials:

• 2 minute introduction

• 5 minute detailed dive-in

$ svn co https://svn.opentripplanner.org/trunk opentripplanner

Please see the GraphBuilder tutorial.

 

OpenTripPlanner is released under the LGPL, the project is a collaborative effort among TriMet, OpenPlans, and the developers of FivePoints, OneBusAway and Graphserver.

As of May 2011, the code is under active development, with a variety of working instances from around the world.

 

• Installation instructions (how to get a development environment set up)

• Developers Guide (code conventions, how to submit patches, etc)

• RESTful API Documentation

• Tutorials (complete list of development tutorials)

• Mailing lists

• Developer discussion list

• SVN commit list (get emailed when code is checked in)

• Build status list (get emailed when the build fails)

• IRC channel

• #opentripplanner on Freenode

• You can connect using your favorite IRC client or chat through the web (just enter a username and click Connect)

• Check out and contribute to future ideas for the software

 

• OpenTripplanner.com has information for agencies, live demos, and details on commercial support for OTP.

• OpenTripPlanner mailing list (for getting help with and discussing the software)

• Frequently asked questions (FAQ) (what is a trip planner? who's behind this?)

• Phase One project plan

• Kick-off workshop (notes from the workshop that launched this project)