Portland Transport

Category: Transit Tools

  • $169 Transit Information Appliance

    One of my “Holy Grail” quests is to figure out how to put Nextbus-style transit information out in the world inexpensively to encourage transit use. Our Transit Board™ tool is intended to make it dead simple to deliver this in a web browser. But how to get cheap web browser displays into coffee shops, doctor’s…

  • Transit Score Debuts

    The good folks at Front Seat, who brought us Walk Score, have now added Transit Score to their evaluation of your favorite address. It includes some very cool multi-modal comparison tools for your commute trip. There’s been a lot of coverage around the web, so I won’t go into details, but I was struck that…

  • Transit Tracker by Txt Msg

    We’ve offered a variant of this for years, but I’m glad to see to it go mainstream from TriMet.

  • Putting NextBus to Shame

    Via PriceTags: I love this concept that would tell you not only when your transit or passenger rail vehicle is approach, but which sections are least crowded and where you can board with your wheeled vehicle of choice.

  • Transit App Comes Out on Top at CivicApps Awards Ceremony

    This evening, Andy Wallace’s PDXBus iPhone app was “best of show” at the CivicApps awards ceremony. [Disclaimer: I was one of the judges.] The app includes real time TriMet arrivals and a host of other features: Bookmarked stop locations Stop lookup by line Nearby stops (using the phone’s GPS) Transit Maps A trip planner Congratulations,…