He recently completed his PhD in Computer Science at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he explored how real-time rider information can improve the usability of public transit. Part of that exploration included the creation of OneBusAway, a suite of open-source transit tools that currently help tens of thousands of Seattle-area riders navigate public transit each and every day. Brian is a big believer in open transit data, and he is an active member of a number of communities around transit data specifications and open-source software. Brian currently resides in Zürich, Switzerland, where he is spoiled rotten by the city's top-notch transit system.