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Monthly Archives: March 2009
One small plug for Trillium; a leap for transit and open data
Recently, a new page appeared on Washington DC Metro’s website (WMATA): Developer Resources. WMATA has joined the growing ranks of transit agencies that choose to provide their schedule, route, and stop data in the Google Transit Feed Spec (GTFS) for … Continue reading
Feature watch: Colored route markers
This Google Transit user interface tweak showed up back in January. I immediately appreciated it. If agencies supply specify a color for a route, then the route name will be colorized in the trip planner. No clutter added, but livens … Continue reading
Google Transit feature watch: “Fare Info” link
As with many Google products, Google Transit evolves subtly and incrementally, often in ways that are easy to miss if you don’t look closely. I am going to start noticing some of the changes on this blog so that users … Continue reading
What do your passengers want most? A web-based survey gives answers.
In fall of 2008, SEPTA, the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, surveyed web-visitors in anticipation of their website revamp. The results are worth noticing. Here’s one question (and averaged responses). Google Transit and interactive maps came it at the top of … Continue reading
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Metro Magazine: Travel Software to Aid Disabled Riders
I posted on this earlier, but thought I would note the recent Metro Magazine article on a Travel Assistant Device (TAD), a research project conducted at the University of South Florida’s National Center for Transit Research. This travel assistance system … Continue reading
Half a week in San Diego: CalACT review
Last week, I attended and presented at the conference of the California Association for Coordinated Transportation. CalACT is California’s association of small and mid-sized rural and community transportation providers. Even though these agencies don’t have information technology departments (they’re lucky … Continue reading
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“Google LatLong:” Google Transit at TransITech: A year later and 500% greener
Jessica Wei, Strategic Partner Development for the Google Transit team just posted a great summary of her presentation at APTA TransITech to the Google LatLong blog. It is amazing to witness what happened in only a year. The total number … Continue reading
I’ll be speaking at CalACT: How to use the web to make public transportation easy and popular
I’ll be speaking at the upcoming California Association for Coordinated Transportation conference in San Diego on March 17. As part of the topic of the panel, “Using the web to enhance customer service,” I’ll be discussing the challenges and opportunities … Continue reading