A collection of transit merchandise, designed in San Francisco by me, Chris Arvin.

• Civic tech gifts

The Transit Tech Lab is an accelerator program for startups solving public transportation challenges. Successful companies have an opportunity to pilot their technology with the MTA and transform New York City.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Real-time display of transportation options at your location

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The Transit Innovation Partnership is a public-private initiative launched by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority and the Partnership for New York City with the mission to make New York the global leader in public transit.

• mass transit
• mobility

• Public Private Partnerships

• Report cards and audits

Our goal at Transitland is to make sense of the jumble here in the SF Bay Area. We're mapping those buses, trains, streetcars, ferries, and even cable cars.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

CS Fund is launching a new funding program on Just Transitions to advance social and ecological justice for a future grounded in justice, joy, belonging, and liberation for all beings.

• Reduced inequalities
• Zero hunger

• Emerging tech
• Get funding
• Foundation initiatives

The Coalition for Urban Transitions, active from 2016 to 2021, was the foremost initiative supporting national governments to secure economic prosperity and tackle the climate crisis by transforming cities.

• cities
• Climate action

Format for exchanging static public transit information.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

As part of a wide-ranging effort to upgrade the subway system’s capacity and reliability, all the winning ideas will be thoroughly vetted and further developed as quickly as possible with future procurements subject to any required MTA Board approval.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The People
• Get funding
• Challenges

At the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, we work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.

We help platforms transition to community-driven data management.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Data governance

Develops a suite of AI tools for automated inspection systems for railways and mass transit optimization

• mass transit

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

The Decelerator is a free support service for civil society organisations. We offer information, tools and hands-on support for better endings.

• Fieldwide resources

Bahn-Vorhersage ist ein Rankingsystem für Zugverbindungen. Es kann für alle Zugverbindung innerhalb von Deutschland einen sogenannten Verbindungsscore ermitteln.

• mass transit
• mobility

CUTgroup is a civic engagement program that includes residents throughout the technology design process.

• Graveyard
• User research groups
• User research

Citify is an online platform designed to track planned and existing real estate projects, ranging from apartment complexes and business centers to streets, bike paths, parks, and schools.

• mass transit
• mobility
• cities

• Urban planning

PwO is a technical consultancy that specializes in 0->1 product development and technology enablement in complex stakeholder environments, frequently touching government or the built environment, and often related to innovation and/or user experience-first initiatives.

• Build something
• Govtech vendors
• Building in the private sector

An open source Policy Toolkit for cities to develop digital policies that put citizens at the center, tackle Sustainable Development Goals and make Governments more open, transparent, and collaborative.

• guides
• cities

• Playbooks and design principles

The Biden Administration's approach to human-centered design to re-orient government around a core set of "life experience" personas

• Govtech
• Service delivery
• Access social benefits

Book edited By Adrian Bua and Sonia Bussu

• Participatory democracy
• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech

At www.mta.me, Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument.

• mass transit

• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.

• guides
• Mastodon

• Meet the others
• Mastodon

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• cities
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

The Data Responsibility Working Group (DRWG) is a global coordination body working to advance data responsibility across the humanitarian system.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Data governance

OpenTripPlanner (OTP) is a family of open source software projects that provide passenger information and transportation network analysis services.

• mobility

mid-sized cities across America to develop ideas for an integrated,first-of-its-kind smart transportation system that would use data,applications, and technology to help people and goods move more quickly,cheaply, and efficiently. The Challenge generated an overwhelming response:78 applicant cities shared the challenges they face and ideas for how totackle them.

• cities
• mass transit

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

At ClimateAction.tech, we meet, discuss, learn and take climate action together. We would love for you to join us on Slack.

• Climate action

• The People
• Meet the others
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott created an open source tool to track progress made during his administration’s first 100 days.

• Promise trackers

The AR Developer Challenge is a series of community-driven competition events focused on solving problems in areas such as healthcare, education, workforce development, and more. Developers for the AR Challenge events will use technologies like Facebook’s Spark AR platform and other AR solutions to compete for prizes and community recognition. Organized by US Ignite and Facebook Reality Labs

• mass transit
• Facebook

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)
• Walking tours

The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab constructed a timeline of key events, both online and offline, centered on the coordination of “Stop the Steal” efforts that escalated to violence and threatened the transition of power core to American democracy.

• Media and social media analysis
• Timelines

A centralized platform for traffic volume and collision data by Code for Canada

• mass transit
• mobility

• Data visualization
• Urban planning

After playing thousands of hours of transportation simulation games, we were left wondering what could happen if some of the traditional limits of the genre didn't exist: in map sizes, track layout complexity, or train scheduling.

• mass transit

• Games and gamification

A project to measure and show bus performance in NYC

• mobility
• mass transit

• Dashboards

Building smart civics to unlock community transitions in response to the climate crisis.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence

We are a strategic discovery, design and development lab working to transition society in response to technological revolution and climate breakdown.

• Climate action

• Social impact design firms

A public machine that would print out NY transit directions in 1961

• mass transit

• Predecessors

The UK's innovation accelerator for cities, transport & place leadership.

• mobility
• mass transit
• cities

Sweden's digital transformation agency

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Get the pattern from the U-Bahn fabric on some leggings

• mass transit

• Civic tech gifts

TfL's gift shop for transit fans

• Civic tech gifts

Tidepools is a re-skinnable collaborative mobile mapping platform for gathering and sharing hyperlocal information and culture through expressive, community maps and data feeds, enabling greater connectivity and communication among neighbors and local organizations.

• Graveyard
• Mapping platforms

Transit app for Mexico, WhereIsMyTransport instance

• mass transit
• mobility
• apps

• Mapping tools

A network and resource library for open sharing of democratic innovations

• resources

• Peer networks

An integrated mass transit solution for emerging markets, focused on providing public transport data and technologies that enrich services, empower people, and enable innovation.

• mass transit

Axon Vibe provides smartphone app technology that enables public transport operators to deliver personalized communications based on users’ commuting behavior.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

FixMyTransport was a mySociety project running from 2011 to 2015. It allowed passengers to send complaints directly to transport operators.

• mass transit
• mobility

• Graveyard
• Communicating with the government
• Communicating with the people

Selected organisations receive over the period of six to eight months* constructive assistance to create a secure environment for their employees and thereby the CSAs and HRDs they work with.

• The People
• Fellowships
• Find a job or hire someone

A project that collected timetable data on informal transit options and formatted it for civic data standards

• mass transit
• mobility

• Civic data
• The People
• Data visualization

Supporting the transition to better German public services through events, workshops, publications

• The People
• Meet the others
• Build something