A company called ArrivalStar has been making a nice business of suing transit systems claiming rights over technology to display real-time arrivals. In fact, ArrivalStar is the main reason that Portland Transport is organized as a 501(c)(3) – so that if our transit tools generated a legal challenge, we’d have a corporate wall to protect…

This morning’s Portland Tribune has an article about our Transit Appliance project. It features the unit at the Streetcar Bistro & Taproom!

I’ve been pleasantly surprised by how relatively easy it was to get our Transit Appliance software stack running on the Raspberry Pi. I’m using the Raspian OS (a variant of Debian) and the Midori web browser (webkit based). I suppose I shouldn’t be too surprised, since the ARM11-family processor and 512MB of RAM are substantially…

Our latest, in the Whitaker Street foyer of the OHSU Center for Health and Healing in South Waterfront (at the base of the tram).

Now to be found in the lobby of the Crowne Plaza hotel on NE Broadway. This is the first time we’ve deployed in a hotel and also the first time we’ve used the iPad (and a commercially available kiosk stand for it) as the display platform! This particular unit is displaying four MAX lines plus…