The Building Blocks of Smart Mobility: TriMet’s Open Systems Approach to Transit Modernization

The Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon (TriMet), in Portland, OR, has earned a reputation as one of the country’s most innovative transit agencies through a longstanding pursuit of transformative transit technology solutions. The agency’s focus on open architecture and open data means that these solutions have fostered a global community of developers to improve upon them and implement them in their own regions. This case study explores how a transit agency can use innovative partnerships and technologies to promote people-centric mobility both locally and globally.