Transit certainty

Transit plays a significant role in active living since every transit trip involves some sort of walk trip. Transit use, however, is often seen or experienced as inconvenient, and often there's a clear basis for that observation. One way to make transit use more attractive is to remove the uncertainty about when the bus or train will arrive. The wait often feels much longer than it actually is.

Enter the increasingly ubiquitous smart phone. Transit operators have begun to release the raw transit vehicle location data and programmers have created apps, so transit riders can have the information sent to their smartphones. Three cheers for Transit 2.0!