One of Trillium’s roles for our clients is to advocate for our GTFS publishing clients. We provide feedback to applications and trip planning sites that use the GTFS, making recommendations for how information provided to customers could be improved. The latest example of this is feedback provided to Google regarding loop routes and headsigns in […]
The excellent rome2rio now shows a “transport layer” in its map interface. This shows all rail and bus routes available on the site. Airports are also shown on the map. More at the rome2rio blog. Map of Oregon’s intercity services shown below.
Walk Score recently announced Apartment Search. Apartment Search is a terrifically useful new feature that helps people find a convenient place to live according to where and how they commute. Here’s how it works (from Redfin.com): To get started, visit walkscore.com/apartments and enter your work (or school) address, select your preferred mode of transportation, and tell us […]
Stefan Wehrmeyer is the developer of Mapnificent, a site that shows how it is possible to travel on public transportation for over 20 cities throughout the world. The application interface provides a slider control to adjust maximum travel time. As the slider is adjusted, the highlighted area on the map showing travel range expands and […]