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MTA App Quest challenges tech developers to create software applications that increase access to information and improve the travel experience for customers of New York's public transit system. The winning app developer will receive $5,000. Smaller cash prizes will go to the developers of apps that are judged to do the most to help transit riders and deemed most popular by the public.
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The mobile app features detailed information about the seven Prevost Service Centers and 133 Prevost-certified Service Providers throughout North America. Users can view contact information and tap to automatically dial the phone number, send an e-mail, open the website or view a map showing the service provider’s location and turn-by-turn directions.
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The redesigned site features an enhanced Trip Planner, an App Center that offers a gallery of apps for iPhone and Android, and a Ways to Save section includes direct links to pages promoting travel savings.
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In addition to offering a shuttle service to on-campus residents and Zipcar to both those on- and off-campus, the university recently partnered with Zimride, a rideshare service that uses a social networking format to connect students to carpooling opportunities. Recent new additions, NextBus and an app, make the shuttle program more efficient.
Read More →The worldwide app, for iPhone or Android phones, allows users to buy tickets, get info on tours and stops, as well as email photos taken during the tour.
Read More →Plans to launch apps in late May providing commuter rail passengers with real-time info on train arrivals.
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Allows students to track bus locations in real-time online via their computer or mobile devices such as cell phones, iPods or iPads.
Read More →The cards, which have been available for a couple of months, can be used only to pay fares with Black and White cabs, including trips to the airport. It also allows a group of students to ride in a Black and White cab for one fare without the typical extra passenger fee.
Read More →Following a project to equip more than 1,000 buses with GPS technology in 2009, dispatchers in the MBTA's Bus Operations Control Center were able for the first time to pinpoint the location of every MBTA bus in real-time. As of today, that same information is available to T bus riders, regardless of route.
Read More →From Blacksburg Transit's VT Bus Tracker for Virginia Tech to King County Metro and the University of Washington’s One Bus Away, transit systems linked with universities are leading the way with open source technology. They are providing real-time arrival information to riders and giving them mobile access, through iPhone and Android applications. But there is a huge disparity among agencies across the country in terms of the information they are providing to riders.
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