Transportation · head-to-head
Community Transit vs Transport for Berlin, Germany
Community Transit, the public transit authority for Snohomish County, WA, publishes its own GTFS schedule data (current and upcoming service-change versions) plus three keyless GTFS-Realtime feeds — trip updates, vehicle positions, and service alerts — as static downloads. The original listing pointed at TransitLand's decommissioned v1 GitHub README with no real connection to this agency; reconciled here to Community Transit's own open-data portal.
vbb-rest is an open-source, community-built REST wrapper around VBB's official HAFAS backend for Berlin and Brandenburg public transit, covering stop search, departures, journeys, and live vehicle positions in the Friendly Public Transport Format (JSON). It's keyless and free, now on its 6th major version — the previously indexed v3 endpoint is deprecated in favor of v6.vbb.transport.rest.
| Community Transit | Transport for Berlin, Germany | |
|---|---|---|
| Authentication | None | None |
| Pricing | free | free |
| Formats | GTFS, GTFS-RT | JSON |
| CORS | no | yes |
| HTTPS | Yes | Yes |
Transport for Berlin, Germany supports CORS, while Community Transit doesn't — pick Transport for Berlin, Germany for direct browser calls.