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The new feature can show any bus route, where the bus is on any selected route and where it is going, with the position updated every 10 seconds.
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The app, which has been in beta testing for a couple of months, lets you put in a location and immediately get back a number of routes, presented as timelines of walking, waiting and riding.
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The time and date stamped electronic ticket shows up on the purchaser's phone screen as a secure image that a conductor can validate visually. The electronic ticket also shows as a bar code that can be scanned by a conductor's hand held device to verify that the barcode is valid.
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Move allows third-party developers plugging Google’s Maps product into their web and mobile applications to provide their users with public transit routes, color-coded transit layers, and schedules.
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OnTheBus hooks into GPS and transit data and alerts the user where and when they need to board, signal and disembark.
Read More →Officials at both the transit agency and university hope the app could boost ridership.
Read More →The smartphone app Tiramisu has been in use in Pittsburgh since the summer of 2011 and is available for iPhone and Android phones. Thus far, users have recorded more than 30,000 trips on Port Authority of Allegheny County buses and trains.
Read More →Apple says it will let third-party developers provide transit directions for its maps.
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The first iPhone app the MTA has developed itself can also be used on for iPod Touch and iPad. Key features include overviews of line service changes, as well as text summaries of the changes; text-based information about any service changes impacting a borough; and details on any service changes impacting that station.
Read More →The application dedicated to BusPlus bus rapid transit service features real-time information for devices operating on Apple, Android and Blackberry platforms. Customers are now able to see when the bus is coming to any station serviced by BusPlus.
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