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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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