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Tag Archives: Maps
Mapping transit frequency online
Jarrett Walker at humantransit.org makes the case for frequent transit network maps. If you look at almost any street map, a map designed for motorists or to give people a general sense of the shape of the city, you’ll see … Continue reading
One guide for many agencies and many modes
Today, Trillium Solutions finished creating the Humboldt County Transportation Guide [Download PDF]. It’s headed for the printer and bound for buses, transit centers, businesses, and social services locations next week. Before this guide, printed schedule information and maps for each … Continue reading
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Tagged coordination, human service transportation, Maps, multi-agency, multi-modal, service guide, transit
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SF Bay ferry services live on Google Transit
On Friday, the San Francisco ferry services went live on Google Transit. Now, travelers can plan inter-agency trips across BART, Muni, AC Transit and other services along with the five ferry services: Golden Gate Ferry, Baylink, Oakland/Alameda Ferry, Alameda Harbor … Continue reading
SF Bay Area Ferry routes, schedules and walkshed map
This week, an interactive map of San Francisco bay ferry routes and schedules became available on the baycrossings.com homepage. The map shows schedules for all services departing or arriving at a particular ferry terminal if a user clicks it. In … Continue reading
Tagged Information design, Maps, Websites
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New: Transit layer in Google Maps
The Google Transti trip planner is a great way for people to plan a single transit trip, but what about when you want to get the big picture of transit networks in a given area? Two weeks ago, Google announced … Continue reading
Tagged Google Transit, Maps
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Online rural transit marketing project for easy-to-use coordinated information and service
Recently, Trillium worked with Transit Marketing to revise and re-launch deltarides.com, a website for Delta Rides, an association of about ten transit agencies in the Mississippi Delta region. The website includes a service map that shows transit routes rom many … Continue reading
Tagged Maps, Websites
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Route-specific marketing: an online community-based approach
I am proud to share Trillium’s work in an innovative route-specific marketing initiative for the Champaign-Urbana Mass Transit District (CUMTD) launched in October. CUMTD increased service frequency on one of their core routes, the Green Route. To get the word … Continue reading
Open source and open data make for transit innovation
If you ever have the pleasure of visiting Portland, Oregon, one of the things you will notice make the city great is their transit system called TriMet. One of the best parts of riding TriMet, for me, is how available … Continue reading
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Tagged Google Transit, Maps, open data, Open source, Public data, Real-time
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Conventional schedules and maps harder to use than you think
Rising gas prices are sending people who formerly drove to seek out other options. On Saturday, the New York Times reported that some public transit systems are seeing ridership increases of up to 10 and 15 percent or more over … Continue reading
Add locations in Google Maps/Transit
Google announced that they’ve added the capability for people to add and edit locations in Google Maps. What does this mean for riders and agencies who use Google Transit? Since Google Transit is integrated with Maps, then presumably this means … Continue reading
Tagged Google Transit, Maps
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