Trufi Association

Melany Ventura Melany Ventura Featured Volunteer August 2026 Meet Melany Ventura, our penguin-loving Featured Volunteer from La Paz, Bolivia. Melany is a user-experience and user-interface (UX/UI) designer who has played a pivotal role in improving the Tr

A landmark event is happening in October: the 1st Global Convening on Informal & Shared Mobility (GloCon 2026). This gathering is for anyone who is passionate about equitable, sustainable mobility. GloCon will be from October 26-28 in Bangkok. Researchers

The Trufi App for Cochabamba delivers what no other mobility app for informal transport can. It includes informal transport routes that Google Maps lacks. It works offline. It routes between provinces. These features exist because the Trufi App is and has

Max Weber Max Weber Featured Volunteer December 2025 Meet Max Weber, our Featured Volunteer from Karlsruhe, Germany. Max is a veteran software engineer with more than 12 years of experience and one of the hosts of the popular YouTube channel Flutter Expla

In the global South where Trufi does the majority of our work, public transport data is often missing or inaccessible. This is especially true in cities where informal networks fill the gaps left by formal systems. In Mexico, a country with some of the hi

Open data is transforming how cities understand and improve public transport. In Mexico, the collaboration between Codeando México, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOTOSM), and Trufi Association are making informal routes visible, usable, and part of the deci

A visit to Duitama, Colombia, gave Trufi president Christoph Hanser the chance to use a Trufi app for the first time in an unfamiliar city - as a stranger in town. Christoph is in Colombia spending a sabbatical away from Hamburg, Germany. Duitama is home

The global conversation on public transport needs voices that understand the reality of how billions of people actually move through cities. Over five days in June, Trufi brought our perspective to one of the world's most influential mobility gatherings:

We will be on-site at the UITP Summit 2025 - June 15 - 19 in Hamburg - doing our part to advance the global conversation on sustainable public, informal mobility, and transportation justice. Representing Trufi will be Christoph Hanser (President), Denis P

Public transport is a lifeline - but only if it's visible, equitable, and efficient. In Oaxaca, community members are rewriting the map, literally. They're turning informal transit networks into powerful tools for equitable mobility. Video by MapaData We'