The mta has already been taking serious strides to make its data available to developers who have already created apps like roadify, schednyc and the mtas very own subway time. Mta bustime uses gps devices to show you where buses are on a map or in tabular view. Mta bustime is an iphone app that provides estimated bus stop arrival times and map locations for buses. Now that data is available for manhattan bus routes, a number of apps that already provide realtime information about buses can expand their offerings to cover manhattan as well. Roadify won the citys second bigapps competition in 2011. Study looks at value of crowdsourced traffic and transit. Roadify is the only app that provides realtime service alerts with comments and tweets so you get the best available information about your ride in one. Bronx service guide brooklyn service guide manhattan service guide queens service guide staten island service guide long island rail road. Top sites mta insight app for iphone 2019 latest mta. Mta bus time has turned your phone into a tool that tells you when to start walking to the. Discover the top 100 best mta bus apps for android free and paid.
Riders on 54 bus routes operated by new york city transit and the mta bus company can get the locations of buses in real time via smart phone, web and text message. The subway system in new york city is second to none. A study from the new cities foundation confirms that commuters value realtime information regardless of mode, but solo drivers are more likely to appreciate crowdsourcing mobile applications than their transitriding counterparts the connected commuting study looked at commuters using two mobile apps. Even if you start all over, itll take years depending on how much devs you have before you finish it. Mta bus time, has expanded and will cover all brooklyn and queens. Mobile web, ios and android apps for university of wisconsin that include full realtime madison metro bus data. Sa, so giving you the source code would be useless. Official mta map for iphone free downloads official mta. Like one that i could put places i want to visit in and it will map it out, apps for subwayrecommendationsetc. How to pay for nyc subway and bus fares using your apple, android. Rockville centre community shuttle rockville centre maple avenue long beach road brower avenue morris avenue. The grand prize was awarded to the roadify iphone app, which alerts users to the latest subway, bus, or driving conditions by using official transit data and realtime updates from commuters. Roadify, moovit, embark and hopstop are also popular apps that use the data provided by the mta. Roadify aggregates and distributes real time transit arrivals, schedules and service alerts for display on any type of screen.
As head of my apartment complex board, our community has embraced roadify so residents can exchange hardtofind parking spots. Nextstop by brooklyn app factory gives you all these. Roadify transit is live in more than 60 cities in the united states and canada including new york, boston, washington, san francisco, chicago, toronto, vancouver, montreal and many others. Transit app gallery 156 apps use open data from 201 transit agencies. The free new york subway map app has everything you need to get around nyc subway including offline mta new york city subway map live mta subway route status nyc trip planner new jersey tran read more. Try out these apps by downloading them via the itunes app store or the android marketplace.
Scheduled transportation for families and more shuddle is the first transportation network that provides scheduled rides for busy families. Mta bus time has turned your phone into a tool that tells you when to start walking to the bus stop so you can get there right when the bus does. Top 39 local public transportation iphone apps recommended. Try out these apps by downloading them via the itunes app store or the android.
Roadify transit answers riders three most important questions about urban transportation. We use cookies and other technologies on this website to enhance your user experience. How to pay for nyc subway and bus fares using your apple. Simply download the app, purchase a pass before boarding a bus or train for the day and you are on your way. Subway directions for iphone downloads subway directions. Roadify makes it easy for you to find out when your bus is coming and, if its late, whats going on. We are backed by an outstanding group of investors and are building a worldclass team that will launch an iconic brand to transform the lifestyle of the modern family. It is a quick and easy way for bus customers to find out approximately when the next bus will be arriving at a specific stop. Its easy to download and install to your mobile phone. I like that the parking mode can work anywhere in the world. Want to build an app that uses both nice and mta data. The thing that sets roadify apart from other nyccentric transit apps is its versatility. How can new york city use technology to serve citizens.
The mtas live bus tracking service, mta bus time, has expanded to all bus routes serving the bronx. The company provides this information to riders in one tap, on a personalized screen in a mobile application. Like many app developers, the team behind roadify chose to start building its main product in ios. So you can use it at home and take it with you when you travel. Roadify transit is live in more than 70 cities in the united states and canada so. It might not make up for a crowded ride, but b67 passengers now have access to a new service that could remove a bit of stress from their commute, courtesy of the park slope startup company roadify.
Mta press release mta headquarters mta realtime bus. Mta bus time is a game changer and a service that greatly enhances our customers experience with bus travel, mta chairman and ceo thomas f. We would have to basically start all over in order to port to gta. New yorks mta transit system contains 468 stations. Trains run like clockwork and the system is easy to understand. With nice gomobile, you can buy bus tickets anytime and anywhere. Roadify transit answers riders three most important questions about urban navigation. What i would personally like to see is technology that empowers and rewards those who are willing to invest personal timemoney to create these n. Roadify focuses on realtime transit information accessible anytime and. In addition to offering realtime and offline maps of the mta subway and bus systems, roadify includes live maps and departure information for new jersey transit trains and buses, metronorth, long island railroad, the staten island ferry, and the path train. Sometimes those effects can be hard to see, however, which is why chris whongs work with data visualization and civic technology casts such a bright light. Roadify quickly expanded to include crowdsourcing social updates from onthespot commuters as well as realtime city traffic and transit data from the metropolitan transportation authority and. Roadify is the only app that provides realtime service alerts with comments and tweets so you get the best available information about your ride in one placefrom official sources and. Text an intersection, street address or bus stop code to 511123 from a cellphone to get a message listing local bus routes.
Me offline map with routing, city guide, poi location, subway and driving directions. I agree that apis are key, as well as more privatepublic partnerships, like seeclickfix and 311. This is the third borough to offer mta bus time on its buses, and the. Anystop is a series of applications developed android devices designed to help. Roadify roadify is the only app that provides realtime service alerts with comments. The interface of the roadify app shows the wide variety of transit options available to users. Roadify transit answers riders three most important questions. Marta, streetcar austin tx metro baltimore md mta bus, metro subway.
For decades, bus riders waiting for the b67 bus had little idea how far away the next bus would be arriving beyond the mtas scheduled timesheet. The app mixes together schedules, service alerts and delays for the subways, metronorth, lirr, new jersey transit, path. Since travel times are variable and far more costly to get right, the mta has gone with a distancebased approach that allows riders to estimate potential wait times. Free realtime transit info, including bus, subway, train, metro and more. Mta realtime bus tracking arriving in brooklyn and queens. For android, bus tracker pro mta ny and sched nyc feature realtime bus information. The official nice gomobile app is like having a vending machine in your pocket. Does anyone have a recommendation on which might be the easiest to use for a novice subway rider. Top 10 apps like exit strategy nyc subway map in 2019 for. Mayor bloomberg announces winners of nyc bigapps, fourth. Google and the mta are not the only ones doing the collaboration dance. Riders can easily find out whats going on, whatever theyre doing wherever they are transit and mobility content from roadify can be displayed on any type of screen. Mta bus time is a game changer and a service that greatly enhances our customers experience with bus travel, said mta chairman and ceo thomas f. We have the information in one place for all types of transit.
Users should be able to figure out whether they are better off taking a bus to a subway, or even light rail to a car share, without switching between maps weve complained about this before. Mta bus time has added a new dimension to bus travel in brooklyn and queens, completing installation citywide, said mta chairman and ceo thomas f. Here are the best subway apps for maps and navigation, for both ios and android. The big vision for the company is to give you one view for all your multimodal transit options. Waze, which provides crowdsourced information about driving. Roadify actually worked with the mta to fix a missing dataset that housed the majority of queens lines, and are happy to now have buses in all five boroughs and long island covered in their free service, which also covers nyc subways, traffic, and parking. The grand prize winner of this years mta appquest competition organizes a variety of information to plan your subway trip. All of these apps follow the timetables, so they do not update if a train is late or early. Click on the map or check out this list to see the cities we cover. Roadify aggregates realtime, official information about mass transit conditions with commentary from riders and twitter into a single cloudbased platform. The description of digital world roadify transit we provide roadify transit 1. Mta bus time servers also feed raw data to app developers free of charge. As with the previous boroughs, manhattans bustime is based on distance rather than time. We have the information in one place for subways, buses, trains, ferries, bikesharing, and more.
Open research into the development of smarter cities. I will be visiting nyc soon and would like to know of some apps that will help navigate the city. No need to carry a metrocard or fumble for change, gomobile will revolutionize your nice bus experience. Mta bustime is an iphone app that provides estimated bus stop arrival times and. The rtd mobile ticketing app lets you buy and use day passes instantly on your smart phone.
Citygoround apps bus schedules, train schedules, trip. I wonder if this app is available on android, blackberry or windows. The mission to get riders from a to b more quickly and easily is a group effort, as more data. Finding our way along the nyc subway wpix 11 new york. Many of the speakers at futurestack14, new relics annual technology and user conference in san francisco on october 8 th and 9 th, will talk about how theyre changing the world with software and data.