diff --git a/.release-please-manifest.json b/.release-please-manifest.json
index b2717bb..bc845f3 100644
--- a/.release-please-manifest.json
+++ b/.release-please-manifest.json
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 {
-  ".": "1.15.5"
+  ".": "1.16.0"
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 458ec16..137747e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 1.16.0 (2025-09-03)
+
+Full Changelog: [v1.15.5...v1.16.0](https://github.com/OneBusAway/python-sdk/compare/v1.15.5...v1.16.0)
+
+### Features
+
+* **types:** replace List[str] with SequenceNotStr in params ([810c88d](https://github.com/OneBusAway/python-sdk/commit/810c88dfa53496c5d0c0b913cf1944da6de86185))
+
 ## 1.15.5 (2025-08-30)
 
 Full Changelog: [v1.15.4...v1.15.5](https://github.com/OneBusAway/python-sdk/compare/v1.15.4...v1.15.5)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ede2518..d70d923 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "onebusaway"
-version = "1.15.5"
+version = "1.16.0"
 description = "The official Python library for the onebusaway-sdk API"
 dynamic = ["readme"]
 license = "Apache-2.0"
diff --git a/src/onebusaway/_utils/_transform.py b/src/onebusaway/_utils/_transform.py
index b0cc20a..f0bcefd 100644
--- a/src/onebusaway/_utils/_transform.py
+++ b/src/onebusaway/_utils/_transform.py
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
     lru_cache,
     is_mapping,
     is_iterable,
+    is_sequence,
 )
 from .._files import is_base64_file_input
 from ._typing import (
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@
     extract_type_arg,
     is_iterable_type,
     is_required_type,
+    is_sequence_type,
     is_annotated_type,
     strip_annotated_type,
 )
@@ -184,6 +186,8 @@ def _transform_recursive(
         (is_list_type(stripped_type) and is_list(data))
         # Iterable[T]
         or (is_iterable_type(stripped_type) and is_iterable(data) and not isinstance(data, str))
+        # Sequence[T]
+        or (is_sequence_type(stripped_type) and is_sequence(data) and not isinstance(data, str))
     ):
         # dicts are technically iterable, but it is an iterable on the keys of the dict and is not usually
         # intended as an iterable, so we don't transform it.
@@ -346,6 +350,8 @@ async def _async_transform_recursive(
         (is_list_type(stripped_type) and is_list(data))
         # Iterable[T]
         or (is_iterable_type(stripped_type) and is_iterable(data) and not isinstance(data, str))
+        # Sequence[T]
+        or (is_sequence_type(stripped_type) and is_sequence(data) and not isinstance(data, str))
     ):
         # dicts are technically iterable, but it is an iterable on the keys of the dict and is not usually
         # intended as an iterable, so we don't transform it.
diff --git a/src/onebusaway/_version.py b/src/onebusaway/_version.py
index 54fc002..af59124 100644
--- a/src/onebusaway/_version.py
+++ b/src/onebusaway/_version.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 # File generated from our OpenAPI spec by Stainless. See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.
 
 __title__ = "onebusaway"
-__version__ = "1.15.5"  # x-release-please-version
+__version__ = "1.16.0"  # x-release-please-version