Caltrain QuickPlanner

[andy...@pobox.com]

Here comes the Caltrain QuickPlanner: http://www.transitunlimited.org/Caltrain

Very much like the BART QuickPlanner, it gives the times and fares for
a specified station pair. This planner also provides estimated travel
time and the number of stops the trains will make to help riders find
the fastest trains available.

In addition, it provides information on train trips with timed
transfers. For instance, if you want to go from Belmont to San Antonio
during the peak hours, you’ll need to transfer at Redwood City. If you
are going from Gilroy to San Francisco, you could transfer to a Baby
Bullet train in San Jose for a faster trip.

This trip planner uses schedule data directly from Caltrain in Google
Transit Feed Specification format http://www.caltrain.com/google_transit_feed/

Even though there are other automated Caltrain schedule finders out
there (http://www.caltrain.com/schedule_mobile_devices.html), they’re
either non-available or not-designed for regular computer use. These
trip planners also don’t give schedules with timed transfers. A lot of
people, including myself, don’t have iphones or a Blackberries, but we
would like to have a simple trip planner that we can easily print out
customized schedules.

Just like the BART QuickPlanner, this planner can be embedded on your
own web site by inserting the following code onto your pages:

<iframe name=”Caltrain QuickPlanner by Transit Unlimited” height=”230″
width=”263″ scrolling=”no” border=”0″ frameborder=”0″ src=”http://
apps.transitunlimited.org/caltrainembed.html“>
</iframe>

Blog post about the same subject: http://greencaltrain.com/2008/05/27/introducing-caltrain-quickplanner/

Andy Chow