The Route to Smart Transit
With the proliferation of transit mapping and mobile applications available, giving your passengers the best trip-planning tools possible can seem like a difficult task. Scott Davis, the founder of ThirstyHead.com, has put together a great overview of the many websites, applications and APIs that can help your customers use transit more effectively. He also provide links to many informative websites and the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS), where agencies can easily start the process of opening their transit data to the public. Providing your passengers with these resources will make them more confident when using transit, resulting in increased ridership and improved customer satisfaction. Click here to read the entire article.
