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6 January 2020

Your City’s Public Transport Is Unique, Your Journey Planner App Should Be Too

The vibrantly coloured Trufis in Cochabamba, Bolivia serve daily commuters. Most cities around the world run formal and informal public transport systems in parallel. An illustrative […]
6 November 2019
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Mapping a transport network with OpenStreetMap and GTFS

26 August 2019

Abidjan to Join the Open Data Community with Mapping Project

Abidjan’s woro woro taxi system. The French Development Agency (AFD) is a funder that finances, through loans and / or grants, sustainable mobility projects in developing […]
8 August 2019

Building your City’s Mobile and Web-based Journey Planner

Trotro App – the Open Source Trufi App redesigned for the city of Accra Many cities in the world need digital public transportation solutions: a World […]
11 July 2019

Conveyal Analysis: A Powerful Tool Now at Your Fingertips!

Conveyal Analysis helps you create public transport scenarios and evaluate them in terms of accessibility, using OpenStreetMap data and GTFS datasets. Digital Transport for Africa is […]
4 June 2019

In African Cities, Mapping Paratransit Makes for Smarter Mobility

DT4A’s Travis Fried and Iman Abubaker released a new article on the importance of mapping paratransit systems in Sub-Saharan African cities. According to the authors: Although […]
20 May 2019

May 22nd – DT4A at ITF in Leipzig

Join DT4A’s Ben Welle from WRI at this year’s ITF Summit in Leipzig, Germany.  On May 22nd, he will be presenting on expanding the network and […]
27 March 2019

10 Mobile Apps to Start Mapping your City’s Transit Network

By Lily Bui and Griffin Kantz, 3/29/2019 When you first start out collecting, analyzing, editing, and visualizing GTFS data, the landscape of available tools can be […]
15 February 2019

Can Paratransit Evolve Alongside African Cities?

WRI’s Celal Tolga Imamoglu writes a fascinating piece on the complicated, and yet essential, role paratransit plays for African city planners and the riders who rely […]