iPhone

MTA selects winning app

February 3, 2012
Winners of MTA App Quest

Embark NYC, an all-purpose app with trip planning, service advisories, interactive maps, and schedules, won the grand prize in the MTA App Quest competition.

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Transit Windsor approves trip planner

February 2, 2012
Transit Windsor bus

Transit Windsor (ON) will move forward with plans to develop an online trip planner that will use existing data about bus routes and schedules.

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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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Student develops app for Transit Windsor

January 19, 2012

A University of Windsor student has developed an iPhone application for Transit Windsor (ON) and hopes to get agency support.

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NY Waterway launches mobile ticketing app

January 10, 2012

NY Waterway, which operates Manhattan-based ferry services, launched a mobile application that incorporates payment and ticketing.

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Peer-to-peer carsharing comes to Portland

December 14, 2011

Peer-to-peer car-sharing service Getaround is coming to Portland (OR) in February, funded in part with a $1.7 million federal grant.

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CMU expands bus-tracking app

December 13, 2011

CMU researchers have released an Android version of Tiramisu, the application that uses crowd-sourcing to track the location of Port Authority buses.

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Amtrak conductors to use iPhones for e-ticketing rollout

December 13, 2011

Amtrak expects to roll out its e-ticketing program next summer, providing conductors with scanner-equipped iPhones to register passenger tickets.

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MTA kicks off 42 days of apps

December 1, 2011

The MTA is ask the public to vote on 42 applications submitted to MTA App Quest, which asked developers to improve the experience of the system’s riders.

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Researchers develop mobile app for blind bus riders

November 23, 2011

Researchers at the University of Washington are building a mobile application to help blind transit riders access bus stops.

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