This app is free and open source. It was created to promote public transportation in order to help fight global warming and reduce our dependency on oil. OpenMBTA is part of a new green software movement that calls on developers to donate their time to making free and useful software that helps us save the environment and promote democracy.
The idea for this mobile app was born during Open Government Hack Day at Betahouse in Central Square, Cambridge, MA on September 27, 2009.
Daniel Choi started this project and is the main developer and maintainer.
Eric Richmond helped create the mobile web version of OpenMBTA.
Chris Dempsey, Assistant Secretary for Innovation and Project Development at Massachusetts' Executive Office of Transportation (EOT), provided much encouragement and graciously answered lots of questions.
Braulio Carreno also provided this project with very useful insights into the GTFS dataset.
Finally, this project would not be possible without the EOT's serious efforts to make MBTA data available to outside software developers and to the public.
For more information, and to submit bug reports and feedback, please visit http://openmbta.org.