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TrinityTransit.org: Making rural transit service attractive and easy-to-use
TrinityTransit.org is the new website for the transit service in Trinity County, California. It replaces the previous website that was group of sub-pages at the Trinity County Transportation Commission website. There are about 14,000 people who live in Trinity County. Despite … Continue reading
Oregon-GTFS.com lists data for 31 Oregon transit services
The State of Oregon launched www.oregon-gtfs.com to make General Transit Feed Specification data for the state more conveniently available to developers. The site currently lists download links for 31 public transportation services in Oregon. I don’t believe that any other … Continue reading
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rome2rio shows planes, trains, buses, ferries
rome2rio is a website for travel options search. Enter a starting point and ending point and Rome2Rio shows flight, train, bus and ferry options to arrive there. Do you want to see options to take a bus half way then catch … Continue reading
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TransportationCamp DC, January 21st 2012
TransportationCamp is coming to Washington DC on Saturday, January 21st, from 9a to 5p (eastern time). These unconference evens are a great place to be inspired, meet leading practitioners in communication technology for transportation, and pick up new ideas. Here’s more … Continue reading
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What might the reduction in regional air services mean for intercity transit?
Across the United States, air service for lower population regions is being reduced or eliminated. In July, the New York Times reported that Delta Airlines is eliminating service for 24 small airports. My hometown airport, Eureka/Arcata (ACV), for example, has lost … Continue reading
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Hipmunk shows rail and air travel options, hotel walkability
My new favorite travel reservations website is Hipmunk. The site offers some features I haven’t seen in any other travel reservations site, but should be standard everywhere. When searching for “flights,” Hipmunk returns a useful long-haul transportation option that most other … Continue reading
New Walk Score “Apartment Search” feature helps people find convenient places to live
Walk Score recently announced Apartment Search. Apartment Search is a terrifically useful new feature that helps people find a convenient place to live according to where and how they commute. Here’s how it works (from the Walk Score blog): To … Continue reading
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Live transit updates in Google Maps
Google Maps now presents live transit updates for four U.S. cities and two European cities: Boston, Portland, Ore., San Diego, San Francisco, Madrid and Turin. This feature appeared at maps.google.com and in Google Maps for Android about a month ago. … Continue reading
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Detour information for transit appearing in Google Maps
It seems that Google Maps is testing something new: temporary detour information. See these results for TriMet: I’m assuming the information is collected through TriMet’s Web Services API. There are several calls for requesting current detour information. Does anyone know … Continue reading
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Agency name and URL in one: marintransit.org
On a recent trip to the San Francisco Bay Area, I saw a great example of a bus wrap. In a Marin Transit’s vehicle exterior, the marintransit.org web-address (URL) was used as primary text. The text serves double-duty to show the … Continue reading
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