The trip planner revolution Trip planners based off GTFS data have revolutionized public transit in the United States. Just 12 years ago, the only trip planners were expensive, proprietary, poorly functioning, and designed for individual systems. Now, a “Google Trip Planner” widget is ubiquitous on the websites of larger agencies and common even for systems […]
Aaron and I both attended the 21st National Rural & Intercity Bus Transportation Conference October 26 to 29 in Monterey, CA. For both Aaron, who’s been in this industry for now over 7 years, and for myself, being new to public transit last year, this conference was monumental. We were invigorated by the work being […]
Sue Crowe, the project lead for the Trillium-completed Northern California Google Transit Feasibility Study and Pilot Project, guest authored an article for the Reconnecting America blog, “Helping Rural Residents Use Google Transit”. Transit trip planning in the rural areas of Northern California has become easier for many user groups as a result of the pilot […]
I haven’t posted to the blog much recently because Trillium has been so busy preparing GTFS and adding agencies to Google Transit. Recently, we’ve been part of filling many more of the gaps in Google Transit transit trip planner for the Pacific northwest. Here are some examples of the longer intercity itineraries that can now […]