I know this is a car forum, but my company made a site for people in chicago that ride the bus.
10-09-2008, 07:51 AM
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I know this is a car forum, but my company made a site for people in chicago that ride the bus.
so if you ride the bus in chicago, you are probably aware of <a href="http://www.ctabustracker.com">ctabustracker.com</a> that gives you live GPS info on the buses in the city. it is cool.
The problem we had is if you are on your iphone walking to a bus stop, it takes like 3-4 pages to get to the relevant info, and that is annoying when you are on a phone walking.
SO we made a site, <a href="http://commuting.in">commuting.in</a> that offers the same data, but lets you create an account, store your preferred stops/routes, and define time windows, thus allowing the site to give you the info for the bus at YOUR stop as soon as you get to the site.
so say me, I take the ashland bus north @ north/ashland in the morning and the ashland bus south in the evening. I define those time frames, assign those stops to the appropriate times, and when I load the page, it gives me just the info I am looking for at that time. If I want to check my other favorites, they are right there. Or you can check a new route, whatever.
This is just something my web development company (<a href="http://www.mk2dev.com">mk2 development</a>) did on the side, as we take the bus and the CTA's bus tracker is lacking. So check it out, let me know if we have anything broken, etc. It is still pretty alpha/beta, but it should all be working....
The problem we had is if you are on your iphone walking to a bus stop, it takes like 3-4 pages to get to the relevant info, and that is annoying when you are on a phone walking.
SO we made a site, <a href="http://commuting.in">commuting.in</a> that offers the same data, but lets you create an account, store your preferred stops/routes, and define time windows, thus allowing the site to give you the info for the bus at YOUR stop as soon as you get to the site.
so say me, I take the ashland bus north @ north/ashland in the morning and the ashland bus south in the evening. I define those time frames, assign those stops to the appropriate times, and when I load the page, it gives me just the info I am looking for at that time. If I want to check my other favorites, they are right there. Or you can check a new route, whatever.
This is just something my web development company (<a href="http://www.mk2dev.com">mk2 development</a>) did on the side, as we take the bus and the CTA's bus tracker is lacking. So check it out, let me know if we have anything broken, etc. It is still pretty alpha/beta, but it should all be working....
10-09-2008, 08:32 AM
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we only have the data that the CTA provides, and cta doesn't like 3 or 4. it is accurate though
it is actually really pretty accurate, I would say within 90 seconds. In our bus riding time with it, we have only had it wrong 2 or 3 times. It is so nice to have though.
that is odd though, CTA must assume the southsiders don't have computers? Those racists.
Seriously though, once the CTA adds another route, our stuff gets updated in real time, so if/when CTA gets around to it....
that is odd though, CTA must assume the southsiders don't have computers? Those racists.
Seriously though, once the CTA adds another route, our stuff gets updated in real time, so if/when CTA gets around to it....
