When circumstances changed, so did our plan. — We started with the idea for OpenTransit in the summer of 2019. After a few weeks of discussion over coffee, email and Slack we had the basic idea: create an open-source rideshare platform that any municipality could use. …

The use and ownership of transit data is essential for both public transit optimization and the revenue growth of for-profit transit services. Which is exactly why it’s a big problem. The first battle of Los Angeles was a false alarm. In February 1942, just 3 months after Pearl Harbour was…

This weekend the New York Times weighed in on what many of us urban dwellers have been seeing for some time — economic migration to the suburbs and beyond. — Read the article on the New York Times site here. The key driver, most obviously, is cost of living issues. The majority of people under 35 that I work with in downtown Toronto have given up on the idea of ever owning a home in the city, and rent for…

Without a doubt Canada is one of the top destination for economic immigration — people moving to Canada for economic opportunities. In order to increase the benefits of economic immigration for smaller communities, the Federal Government announced the Rural and Northern Immigration Pilot in the summer of 2019. Eligibility requirements…

We are a group of digital services experts, software engineers, digital product executives and academics with extensive experience in the public services sector. We created OpenTransit as a not-for-profit organization with the broad goal to improve the quality of life and economic opportunities in rural and urban communities across Canada. We believe in the power and efficiency of open source software. We believe there are more effective ways to deploy public funds to provide meaningful, self sustaining economic benefits. Specifically, we will provide municipalities with public transit options that deliver better service, improved accessibility, local economic opportunities and tools to implement measurable carbon reduction strategies at the local level.