Guides from our Wikis
Up until early 2024, the OneBusAway project had two primary sources of documentation: our project wikis and this website. The wikis were much easier to update, but their content has grown stale. Nevertheless, much of the information they contain is not available anywhere else.
This page contains a list of every OneBusAway configuration guide that was previously available on our project wikis. For each guide, you can find the name, original link, date last updated, and some information about its purpose.
OBA 2.x Build and Run Guide (App Modules Wiki Home)
Last updated: April 2022
Intended to explain how to build and run OBA 2.x.
Configuration and Deployment Guide for v2.x
Last updated: October 2021
This guide is designed to provide a comprehensive deployment method for users who
wish to set up a simple OneBusAway application with minimal configurations. It is
primarily intended for use cases that would need to be more permanent than just
using the quick start version of OneBusAway. Unlike quick start, this solution
boots with the server automatically with no additional configuration required.
v1.x Developer Guide
Last updated: October 2021
This guide is designed to get you up and running with the OneBusAway application
suite source code as quickly as possible.
GTFS Realtime Resources
Last updated: January 2021
The OneBusAway application suite has support for both GTFS-realtime import and export.
The application suite can be used to provide a high-level API from low level GTFS and
GTFS-realtime data feeds, for example.
Enterprise Webapp Configuration
Last updated: December 2019
This page documents how to do a minimal deploy of the onebusaway-enterprise-acta-webapp
module introduced by Pull 176 for v2.0 of OBA.
Configuration and Deployment Guide for v1.x
Last updated: August 2018
This guide is designed to provide a comprehensive deployment method for users who wish
to set up a simple OneBusAway application with minimal configurations. It is primarily
intended for use cases that would need to be more permanent than just using the quick
start version of OneBusAway. Unlike quick start, this solution boots with the server
automatically with no additional configuration required.
Build and Compile Guide for v1.x
Last updated: July 2018
This guide is designed to provide a comprehensive path for users who wish to build a
OneBusAway binary from the version 1.x source files.
GTFS Realtime Quickstart
Last updated: September 2017
Tutorial to get real time data flowing into OBA.
Database Guide
Last updated: April 2017
OneBusAway makes use of relational databases in a number of places to store transit
data and user account information. Here we attempt to describe how to setup and
configure data-sources as needed and list all the places databases get used.