I follow a lot of blogs related to transportation and technology and sometimes I come across some powerful testimonials for Google Transit. Here is one from the comments section of a blog post on the Greater Greater Washington blog some time ago: It is amazing how much easier it is to plan out a transit […]
In January, Trillium client Mountain Line in Flagstaff became the first transit agency in Arizona in Google Transit. Today, Mountain Line staff forwarded me an article from the Arizona Daily Sun about the trip planner. It’s great to see transit agencies take advantage of Google Transit as a publicity opportunity, and Mountain Line is doing […]
Recently, I’ve been thinking about the role Trillium plays with rural, small, and mid-sized transit agencies. The Trillium services page shows that we help publish data in the Google Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) to submit to Google for inclusion in the Google Maps/Transit. But, when Trillium started marketing GTFS publishing services, I didn’t understand that […]
Another subtle, incremental update in the Google Transit trip planner showed up recently. Today, I noticed that loop routes display more cleanly. A lot of rural and small agencies, in particular, operate routes where one vehicle travels continuously on a loop. The way loops are represented in a Google Transit feed is as one route […]