Thanks to the readers and comment-makers, I received some enlightening feedback and new information after the post “Quick: When is the next bus scheduled to arrive?” The best way of presenting information at stop poles probably depends on system features and also on customer expectations. In particular, at stops, or in systems where many routes […]
WalkScore.com, by FontSeat, is a site that automatically generates “walk scores” for inputted address locations. These scores, numbers between 0 and 100, are intended to express the walkability of a location, as determined by the proximity of various services and destinations like grocery stores, restaurants, medical services, parks, and schools. Some users of WalkScore include […]
Last month, the Shasta County Regional Transportation Planning Agency accepted Trillium’s Northern California Google Transit Feasibility Study. The document is the culmination of a project begun in January 2009 to pilot rural Northern California transit agencies in Google Transit. Currently, Redding Area Bus Authority is live in Google Transit. Several neighboring agencies are in the […]
Recently, I visited the San Francisco Bay Area. My friend Andrea, who lives in Berkeley, pointed out the inconvenience of transit timetables that separate all the scheduled departures by line. If there are multiple lines that travel to some of the same locations, the passenger just wants to look up ALL of the next opportunities […]