Personal technology

OC Transpo is poised to release data

January 27, 2012

Ottawa transit commissioners plan to recommend releasing OC Transpo’s bus-location data as soon as possible, despite the GM’s advice to the contrary

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Transport for London to select WiFi supplier in spring

January 26, 2012

Transport for London will announce its selection this spring for a vendor to install WiFi in 120 London Underground stations in time for the Olympics.

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What transit agencies can learn from Twitter

January 26, 2012

Researchers at Purdue University (IN) used market research tools to test the mood of Chicago commuters by analyzing their Twitter posts.

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Can Twitter help design better transit service?

January 25, 2012

Can Twitter help create better transit routes? Enter Eric Fischer who plotted thousands of geotagged tweets onto maps of NYC, Chicago, and San Francisco.

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LaHood encourages transit community to develop apps

January 25, 2012

Secretary Ray LaHood writes about the role of mobile applications in empowering transit riders with the information they need to make travel decisions.

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Bus Time is bound for the Bronx and beyond

January 25, 2012

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority announced plans to extend the Bus Time tracking application to the Bronx and another borough to be named later.

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New tool lets travelers choose hotel by transit travel time

January 24, 2012

Google had added a new feature to its experimental Hotel Finder tool that lets users search for a place to stay based on walking or transit travel time.

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Is new walking app racist?

January 24, 2012

Microsoft received a patent for a mobile mapping feature designed to help pedestrians avoid dangerous neighborhoods, bad weather, and difficult terrain.

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TransportationCamp comes to DC…and The Transit Wire was there

January 22, 2012

Saturday was my first time at TransportationCamp, the unconference that explores the intersection of urban transportation and technology.

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BART inspires Instagram photo group

January 20, 2012

Fans of the iPhone photo application Instagram used BART (CA) as their inspiration and took their monthly photo walk on the train.

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