trip planner

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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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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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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MBTA and Boston launch apps challenge to link transit with bikes . . . and lunch

January 13, 2012

The MBTA and the City of Boston launched a developers challenge for apps that highlight connections between the MBTA and Boston’s bikeshare program.

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San Diego apps challenge is open

January 13, 2012

The San Diego Apps Challenge is open and invites developers to create applications using at least one dataset from the City of San Diego or its partners.

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Taking a look at MTA App Quest

January 9, 2012

As the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s (NY) MTA App Quest public voting period comes to an end, a reporter tried out some of the 42 submissions.

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MTA launches Weekender website again

December 12, 2011

The MTA launched a new version of its weekend-only home page which provides information about construction-related weekend subway delays and diversions.

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HopStop charts urban travel trends

December 9, 2011

HopStop has released an infographic showing travel patterns in 65 metropolitan areas based on data from more than 400 million route requests.

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