Author Archives: David Emory

We are pleased to announce the latest major release of OTP: 0.9. (Technically, as of this posting the current release is 0.9.1, with the first bug-fix followup release having already been cut.) Note that 0.8 was skipped; the numbering reflects the team’s desire, as discussed in the 9/27 check-in, for this release to be the final [...]

The past few weeks have been busy with several high-profile OpenTripPlanner launches. We begin in Portland, Oregon — the city where OTP was born three years ago — where on August 6th TriMet officially unveiled their new OTP-based version of ride.trimet.org, the transit agency’s official trip planner. Although a beta version of an OTP-based utility has been [...]

A regular feature we’d like to get going at this site is periodic updates on recent developments with OTP. Some developments may not warrant a full-length article here but are still of interest to the OTP community. Below are some current items: OTP 0.7.10 released: Version 0.7.10 of OTP was released yesterday; the latest tagged [...]

OpenPlans is pleased to announce the launch of OTP Deployer, the first fully automated deployment and hosting platform for OpenTripPlanner. It is available for public use at deployer.opentripplanner.org. The purpose of the OTP Deployer project is to make launching an OpenTripPlanner deployment as simple as possible, particularly for transport providers who want to quickly see [...]

In July of 2009, a small group of developers, transit agency officials, and open government enthusiasts spent three days in a conference room in Portland, Ore. discussing what was then a fairly obscure topic: open source multimodal trip itinerary planning. It was at that workshop that the OpenTripPlanner project was born. As we prepare to [...]