Idea: Develop a mobile app for real time bus arrival/departure and routes.

[Bytemarks]

Discussion for: Develop a mobile app for real time bus arrival/departure and routes.

[J Clark]

Google maps does this now on current smartphone browsers. Most (not all) of the busses have GPS, so if you put a stop number in at http://hea.thebus.org/ the query will return with the next few buses coming.

Are you looking for something more detailed in some way?

[Patrick Kelly]

They were talking about using real-time tracking data from buses to
provide on-the-ground estimates rather than merely what the schedule
says is supposed to happen.

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Patrick D Kelly
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[J Clark]

Right, Google goes by the schedule, and hea.thebus goes by GPS (real-time) and schedule for non-gps-enabled buses.

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Judi Clark
ManyMedia
(650) 648-3346

[Frizzell, Forest]

Google also does real time tracking which we're working on right now.

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On Dec 6, 2011, at 9:20 AM, "J Clark" <ju...@manymedia.com<mailto:ju...@manymedia.com>> wrote:

Right, Google goes by the schedule, and hea.thebus goes by GPS (real-time) and schedule for non-gps-enabled buses.

On 12/6/11 11:12 AM, Patrick Kelly wrote:

They were talking about using real-time tracking data from buses to
provide on-the-ground estimates rather than merely what the schedule
says is supposed to happen.

On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 9:10 AM, J Clark <ju...@manymedia.com><mailto:ju...@manymedia.com> wrote:

Google maps does this now on current smartphone browsers. Most (not all) of
the busses have GPS, so if you put a stop number in at
http://hea.thebus.org/ the query will return with the next few buses coming.

Are you looking for something more detailed in some way?

On 12/6/11 11:03 AM, Bytemarks wrote:

Discussion for: Develop a mobile app for real time bus arrival/departure and
routes.

--
Judi Clark
ManyMedia<http://manymedia.com>
(650) 648-3346

[Jason Axelson]

You can also try AnyStop (I think there's an iPhone version as well).

https://market.android.com/details?id=org.busbrothers.anystop.thebus&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsIm9yZy5idXNicm90aGVycy5hbnlzdG9wLnRoZWJ1cyJd

[Todd Ogasawara]

A former intern at Oceanit built the app and server-side software for his own use back in 2009. TheBus management saw it and was impressed. However, I do not know what happened after that.