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Researchers to test impacts of traveler info

September 2, 2010

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, launched a field test designed to compare the impacts of real-time traffic, bus, and Caltrain information on mode choice.

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LA Metro releases iPhone app

September 1, 2010

The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority released Go Metro, a free iPhone application.

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What’s your transit score?

August 17, 2010

Walk Score, the website that helps find walkable communities, has added a transit tool.

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TriMet previews details of open source trip planner

July 22, 2010

TriMet (OR) recently shared details of its open source multi-modal trip planner project with about three dozen Portland-area transportation and data experts.

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Metro will release rail data to developers next month

July 9, 2010

The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (DC) will offer third-party developers access to Metrorail data starting on August 11.

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Winnipeg Transit releases new rider tools

June 24, 2010

As part of a website upgrade, currently in beta form, Winnipeg Transit (MB) has released two new applications to help riders navigate the system.

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Southern California launches regional trip planner

June 14, 2010

Southern California 511, currently online in a beta version, provides traffic, transit, and commuter information for five counties — Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside and Ventura.

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Helping rural residents use Google Transit

May 21, 2010

In Half-Mile Circles, guest blogger Sue Crowe writes about a project that tested the use of Google Maps in a nine-county rural region in northern California. Plumas, Shasta (which led the project), Siskiyou, Tehama, and Trinity counties participated in the first phase of the study;  Google Maps was launched successfully for all except Plumas County.  [...]

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Regional travel info website launched in Scotland

May 21, 2010

The Tayside and Central Scotland Transport Partnership launched tactran connect, a website that provides regional multimodal travel information

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Reinventing the bus stop

May 19, 2010

In Fast Company, Tadeo Toulis, creative director of Seattle-based Teague, writes about a concept his firm calls Traffic 2.0, which reinvents the bus stop to answer three basic questions about the trip: Where, how, and when.

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