Category: Transit Tools

  • Surf the Streetcar

    After adding the Streetcar to Transit Board last week, it’s now available on Transit Surfer. Check it out.

  • Streetcar Comes to Transit Board(tm)

    We’re delighted to announce that Transit Board™ Real Time Info now includes information from Portland Streetcar. We recently received permission to use data from NextBus, Streetcar’s provider for next arrival information. We’re busily integrating this data into our tools, and it should show up on Transit Surfer soon as well. Remember, we’re happy to build…

  • Transit Boards(tm) Rolled Out for Lloyd TMA

    We’re happy to announce that in partnership with the Lloyd Transportation Management Association, Portland Transport has deployed a set of Transit Boards™ for the Lloyd District. Check it out at the Lloyd TMA’s website (scroll down to the map)! This also introduces a new user interface approach for Transit Board, displaying in a pop-up window.

  • Transit Boards for All

    Late last month we introduced the Transit Board™, a real-time arrival web tool for tracking TriMet buses and trains. One TMA has already implemented it, we’re in discussion with another TMA, an architecture office has put on their intranet. One of the pieces of feedback we got is “let us define our own”. So we’ve…

  • Introducing Transit Board

    We’re rolling out a new transit tool today, called Transit Board. Contrasted with Transit Surfer, which is designed to be used on portable devices by people on the move, Transit Board is designed to serve fixed locations. It provides arrival times for buses and trains on a selected set of lines at a selected set…