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General

to sorts

See also Mapping




Communities


  • Hitchwiki - a collaborative website for gathering information about hitchhiking and other ways of extremely cheap ways of transport. It is maintained by many active hitchhikers all around the world. We have information about how to hitch out of big cities, how to cover long distances, maps and many more tips.
  • Nomadwiki — info and tips for nomads about shoestring budget traveling. Here you'll find out about free camping and tramp lifestyle, not for tourists.





  • Help Exchange (HelpX) - an online listing of host organic farms, non-organic farms, farmstays, homestays, ranches, lodges, B&Bs, backpackers hostels and even sailing boats who invite volunteer helpers to stay with them short-term in exchange for food and accommodation.



  • BeWelcome- Step inside and invite travelers to your home, find hosts all over the world, and become part of our multicultural hospitality community. We are not-for-profit, open source, and exclusively run by members in a transparent and democratic way.


  • The Warm Showers Community - a free worldwide hospitality exchange for touring cyclists. People who are willing to host touring cyclists sign up and provide their contact information, and may occasionally have someone stay with them and share great stories and a drink.



Passport

Wifi

Living and travel cost

Renting

Methods

Public transit




  • GTFS Realtime Overview  |  Realtime Transit  |  Google for Developers - Providing users transit data updates in real time greatly enhances their experience of your transit services. Providing up-to-date information about current arrival and departure times allows users to smoothly plan their trips. As a result, in case of an unfortunate delay, a rider would be relieved to know that they can stay home a little bit longer. GTFS Realtime is a feed specification that allows public transportation agencies to provide realtime updates about their fleet to application developers. It is an extension to GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification), an open data format for public transportation schedules and associated geographic information. GTFS Realtime was designed around ease of implementation, good GTFS interoperability and a focus on passenger information. The specification was designed through a partnership of the initial Live Transit Updates partner agencies, a number of transit developers and Google. The specification is published under the Apache 2.0 License.


  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaPTAN - The National Public Transport Access Node, database is a UK nationwide system for uniquely identifying all the points of access to public transport in the UK. The dataset is closely associated with the National Public Transport Gazetteer. Every UK railway station, coach terminus, airport, ferry terminal, bus stop, taxi rank or other place where public transport can be joined or left is allocated a unique NaPTAN identifier. The relationship of the stop to a City, Town, Village or other locality can be indicated through an association with elements of the National Public Transport Gazetteer. There is a CEN standardisation initiative, Identification of Fixed Objects In Public Transport ('IFOPT'), to develop NaPTAN concepts into a European standard for stop identification as an extension to Transmodel, the European standard for Public Transport information.

Walking


Scooter


Cycling

See Cycling


Skateboard

Driving




  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver_CPC - a qualification for professional bus, coach and lorry drivers. It has been introduced across Europe with the aim of improving road safety and maintaining high standards of driving.


  • Apertis - a versatile open source infrastructure tailored to the automotive needs and fit for a wide variety of electronic devices. Security and modularity are two of its primary strengths. Apertis provides a feature-rich framework for add-on software and resilient upgrade capabilities. Beyond an operating system, it offers new APIs, tools and cloud services.


  • UK Vehicle Statistics - provides detailed Car and Motorbike data in a way that is useful to you. This information could be used when considering purchasing, leasing or selling your vehicle.We also provide the functionality to compare vehicles enabling you to better understand which has has the most/least reported faults and visibility of recurring issues.All statistics are displayed for specified registration plates. This data is kept up-to-date each night and will reflect any vehicle transfers within 24 hours of the DVLA releasing the information.



Van

Train


  • National Rail Enquiries - We are the definitive source of customer information for all passenger rail services on the National Rail network in England, Wales and Scotland. NRE is part of the Association of Train Operating Companies (ATOC), which is responsible for providing business services to the Train Operating Companies.
  • trains.im - Open National Rail times, maps and stats


Boat



Air



  • SkyVector - Flight Planning / Aeronautical Charts

Data

  • OpenTripPlanner - a family of open source software projects that provide passenger information and transportation network analysis services. The core server-side Java component finds itineraries combining transit, pedestrian, bicycle, and car segments through networks built from widely available, open standard OpenStreetMap and GTFS data. This service can be accessed directly via its web API or using a range of Javascript client libraries, including modern reactive modular components targeting mobile platforms. Launched in 2009, the project has attracted a thriving community of users and developers, receiving support from public agencies, startups, and transportation consultancies alike. OTP powers regional and national journey planning services around the world, as well as several popular multi-city mobile applications.


  • General Transit Feed Specification - an Open Standard used to distribute relevant information about transit systems to riders. It allows public transit agencies to publish their transit data in a format that can be consumed by a wide variety of software applications. Today, the GTFS data format is used by thousands of public transport providers. GTFS consists of two main parts: GTFS Schedule and GTFS Realtime. GTFS Schedule contains information about routes, schedules, fares, and geographic transit details, and it is presented in simple text files. This straightforward format allows for easy creation and maintenance without relying on complex or proprietary software. GTFS Realtime contains trip updates, vehicle positions, and service alerts. It is based on Protocol Buffers, which are a language (and platform) neutral mechanism for serializing structured data. GTFS is supported around the world and its use, importance, and scope has been increasing. It’s likely that an agency you know already uses GTFS to represent routes, schedule, stop locations, and other information, and that riders are already consuming it via various applications.

GTFS is used by over 10,000 transit agencies in over 100 countries. Most transit agencies have heard of GTFS, and it has quickly become an industry standard. Some agencies produce this data themselves, while others employ a vendor to create and maintain data for them. And because it is a simple, text-based Open Standard, many transit technology vendors can already read and write to GTFS files. By better understanding GTFS, agencies can make better choices when it comes to data. The choices agencies make in how to maintain and distribute GTFS can have a huge impact on service quality.


  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTFS - which stands for General Transit Feed Specification or (originally) Google Transit Feed Specification, defines a common format for public transportation schedules and associated geographic information. GTFS contains only static or scheduled information about public transport services, and is sometimes known as GTFS Static or GTFS Schedule to distinguish it from the GTFS Realtime extension, which defines how information on the realtime status of services can be shared.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTFS_Realtime - also known as GTFS-rt, is an extension to GTFS, in which public transport agencies share real-time vehicle locations, arrival time predictions, and alerts such as detours and cancellations via Protocol Buffers web server.


  • The-Many-Uses-of-GTFS-Data-–-ITS-America-submission-abbreviated.pdf - The General Transit Feed Specification, or GTFS, has become the most popular world-wide data format to describe fixed-route transit services. Many transit agencies have created and published GTFS data with the primary purpose being integration with Google Maps. However, GTFS data can power many other different types of transit and multimodal software applications, including multimodal trip planning, timetable creation, mobile apps, visualization, accessibility, analysis tools for planning, real-time information, and interactive voice response (IVR). This paper provides an overview of the many opportunities available for transit and intermodal agencies to leverage open GTFS data and provide many new types of information services to the public or their internal operations with little to no cost to the agency. For transit agencies without open data, this paper will inform decisions on prioritizing and justifying investments in open data initiatives. For agencies that already provide open access to GTFS data, this paper will assist the agency in maximizing their investment in GTFS data by providing resources on how to access many new types of applications. Departments of Transportation, Metropolitan Planning Organizations, and other intermodal agencies will also benefit from this paper by learning the state of the art in transit information dissemination, which can power new state-of-the-art intermodal applications. This paper also provides a summary of industry best-practices that an agency can follow when deciding to create and share an open GTFS data feed to maximize exposure to new applications.
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