Trufi Association

Trufi Association calls itself a social startup located in Hamburg, Germany that provides smartphone apps for informal traffic. Informal traffic means no regular stops and passengers hop on and off along a route. Informal traffic is mostly common in South America, Africa and great parts of Asia.

They are currently looking for:

1. Mappers that want to help them to upload routes and snippet of routes to OpenStreetMap, e.g. in La Paz.
2. Cities that want to make it possible for their people to have the apps and are willing to support the local community.
3. Business Developers that could help them to put their social startup on sustainable feet.

In August 2019, The Trufi Association has published its Trufi App on Github [1] and is providing [2] in order to help cities to implement the Trufi App.

Contact

Address:

• Trufi Association e.V.

• Rodenbeker Str. 18c, 22395 Hamburg
• info@trufi-association.org

Websites:

• NGO pages
  • Official Website
  • Eventbrite
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Reddit
  • Mastodon
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
• Code:
  • https://github.com/trufi-association
• Trufi App
  • https://www.trufi.app
  • https://www.facebook.com/trufiapp
• Trotro App
  • https://www.trotro.app
  • https://twitter.com/trotroapp

People:

• Christoph Hanser (user:chanser, christoph.hanser@trufi-association.org), Vorsitzender des Vereins/Chairman

Apps

Trufi App started in Feb 2019 in ES:Cochabamba (Bolivia) and continued in Juli 2019 with the Trotro App to Accra (Ghana).

Key features:

• POIs from OpenStreetMap
• Routing from A to B with OTP server based on OSM routes
• Display route results and options
• Available in international and local languages

The app is for free, and the company finances its costs through server hostings and city-custom extensions.

App Name	City	Website	Download	Community
Trufi App	Cochabamba, Bolivia	https://www.trufi.app/	Google PlayStore	Especially User:Smaug, more locals and the wonderful volunteers of Guia Cochala.
Trotro App	Accra, Ghana	https://www.trotro.app/	Beta phase	AccraMobile3 and Jungle Bus
work in progress	Nicaragua	/	/	OpenStreetMap Nicaragua (with Nomada, porfiriopaiz, Mayorgalinux and xamanu)
work in progress	La Paz/El Alto, Bolivia	/	/	/

Tools

Some of their tools were published under MIT license on trufi-app/geojson-to-gtfs ^GitHub.