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Transit Surfer Catches Cell Phone Wave
We have our first release of a WAP/WML (cell phone) interface for the Surfer. Go to: http://tsrf.us/wap [If you follow the link in a regular web browser, you’re not likely to get anything meaningful.] Note that it’s not 100% complete. We don’t have menus to select lines or stops, you MUST enter a stop number.…
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Transit Surfer goes Production and New Interface Added
Thanks to all the folks who’ve been beta-testing our Transit Surfer tool. We’re releasing the official version 1.0 today, and it now has its own domain name: tsrf.us. There are currently two flavors: a wireless PDA interface (the one that’s been in beta test). It’s available now at http://tsrf.us/pda. The new interface is for desktop…
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Real Time Transit Info in Japan
In the last few days we’ve heard quite a bit about TriMet’s failures during the 12/18-19 insta- winter storm. The Max breakdowns were one thing, but there were also a number of complaints about misleading internet tracking information ( “there was no notice of anything out of the ordinary with her route….She waited and waited…
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Transit Surfer Enhanced
We’ve recently got hold of a file of GPS coordinates for all the TriMet stops. We’ve employed that to add a new feature to the Transit Surfer. When you view the arrivals information for a stop, you not only get all the lines that arrive at that stop, you’ll also get a list of lines…
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A Natural Connection? Open Source Software and Alternative Transporation
I’ve often thought that the philosophies behind open source software and alternative transportation were fundamentally in sync. They’re about making better use of our shared commons. In one case, the commons of ideas and their expression, in the other, the commons of our public spaces and transportation infrastructure. I got a little bit of reinforcement…