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 for sight-impaired or cognitively disabled passengers allows them to plan a transit trip and download […]
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 to have one person dedicated part-time to IT) or the large budgets of metropolitain-scale transportation […]
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 of cities for which users can plan transit trips went to over 250. In North […]
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 for small and mid-sized agencies looking to participate in Google Transit, launch or update their […]