Transit

Cities are where we call home. We know they’re far from perfect — and utterly besieged by cars — but we’re fiercely passionate about making them better places to live, raise kids, and grow old. It’s why we’re working so hard to make car-free transportation the default way of getting around, and help transform our cities for the better. Here’s our vision for Transit and the future of cities: vision.transitapp.com ✨ ~~ Les villes sont notre chez-nous. On sait qu’elles sont loin d’être parfaites (et un peu trop envahies par les voitures à notre goût), mais on se dévoue à en faire des lieux où il fait bon vivre, élever une famille et bien vieillir. C’est pourquoi on travaille fort pour transformer nos villes pour le mieux avec des transports collectifs plus faciles à trouver et à utiliser. Voici notre vision pour Transit et pour l’avenir de nos villes : vision.transitapp.com ✨

Huge congrats to Société de transport de Montréal for taking home the Innovation Award at the 2024 CUTA Awards! We loved working with the STM team to keep riders in the loop with automatic detour detection - well earned! 🎉 - Toutes nos félicitations à la Société de transport de Montréal, qui a remporté le prix de l'innovation des prix de l’ACTU 2024! On s’est fait un grand plaisir à collaborer avec la STM pour s’assurer de garder les usager·ère·s informé·e·s de l’état du réseau avec la détection automatique des détours. Bravo! 🎉

Tomorrow at CUTA Fall, Laurence Lui from the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) will join us at the Transit booth (#517) to demo how the TTC keeps riders up-to-date on detours in the Transit app. But we have one more surprise up our sleeve... 🤫 We've run detour simulations for dozens of agencies in our new Detours Dashboard, the hub for monitoring detours across your network. Come by at 11AM to see all the ones that we discovered for your agency!

Taylor Swift isn’t the only celebrity sojourning in Toronto this month. On November 19 our very own superstars Kaj, Allison, Jake, Kerra, David, Brigitte, and Christine will be headlining an immersive all-day experience at the CUTA Fall Annual Conference. All eyes will be on booth 517 of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, where we’ll be rolling out some of our greatest hits and turning up the volume on recent releases: 🍁 We’ve been hard at work with Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) to bring detours to the Transit app. Join us at the Transit booth Tuesday 11am for a special demo with Laurence Lui, TTC’s Head of Service Planning and Scheduling. 🏙️ We sent our engineers into the depths of New York City’s subway system to unearth our latest update: GO Underground. Subterranean magic or math? Come find out. See you there! 👋 Get the full scoop here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eTW5bzeW

No signal on the subway? Weak GPS on the metro? Transit’s new subterranean ally has finally emerged: offline motion detection, now in GO 🚇📱🚆 No more craning your neck to check those digital screens or trying to decode staticky stop announcements. Now you can keep track of your journey in Transit just like your fellow surface-dwellers. Did we build the world’s first subterranean GPS? Nope: it’s just math. Dig deep into the 400,000 trips and clever engineering that made it possible: https://lnkd.in/ewxityYG

They say you should never meet your heroes… unless your hero is Jarrett Walker and you’re huge fans of ‘Human Transit’. Jarrett stopped by our Montreal office for a quick 5 à 7 (and impromptu book signing) on the way to ATUQ. Along with Kevin Manaugh, Zvi Leve, MSc, E. Owen Waygood, and Jérôme Laviolette, we jumped on the chance to chat about everything from fare systems to maps and how we can create great bus services in Quebec and beyond. Thanks for visiting Jarrett! You’re welcome at Transit HQ any time 👋

Next week, we’ll be joining fellow transit data sages at the 2024 International MobilityData Summit, right here in Montreal. 🧙🏻 Our industry’s cleverest GTFS and GBFS wizards (including a few from our own ranks) will come up with concoctions that improve the common language we all use to share accessible, open, high-quality transit information. 🔮 Leave your crystal ball at home; everything you need is in the slides below

🏆 Make room in the trophy case - our partners at Pace Suburban Bus just took home a shiny new Center for Digital Government Special District Project Award! We’ve been helping Pace innovate their way to multimodal trip-planning greatness since 2022, and we’re over the moon to see this project recognized nationally. Congrats team! 🙌

It’s time for us to flee the fall foliage, and make tracks for California. Hello APTA TRANSform! ☀️ Our mightiest ducks David, Beth, Jessica, Allison and Kaj will be at Booth 414 from Sunday September 29 to Wednesday October 2, and orange you glad to hear what’s in store: 🎤 Our friends at Metro Transit will be sharing how they’re using over 30k collected Rate-My-Ride survey responses to create a safer environment at the stop on Monday September 30th, 11:15 - 12:15. ⭐ We’ll also be on hand to share your agency’s Rate-My-Ride scores. With over 135k responses weekly, the national average is already 4.6 stars out of 5… but come see us to find out if you’ve got angels on the bus instead of the outfield! It’ll be no small world - get the full scoop here: https://lnkd.in/eAHk6TTu See you in the sunshine! 😎

No sticks in these spokes — GO Bike’s cruising ahead! Riders in our 600 supported cities are planning twice as many bike trips as in August, and we're already making legs on v2 🚲💨 Catch that and other big company updates in our latest newsletter 📬 including: - Yes, 600 cities: thanks to expansions across Switzerland 🇨🇭 + Spain 🇪🇸 + Portugal 🇵🇹 + Dubai 🇦🇪 + Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 + the UK 🇬🇧 - Detours: we're helping Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) and Région Pays de la Loire help riders find their way when their commutes get diverted 🚧 - Royale: Hello MTA Maryland, CapMetro, Williamsburg Area Transit Authority, Keolis Châlons-en-Champagne, GoDurham, WPBgo, Summit County, Colorado, Bow Valley Regional Transit Services Commission - Roam Transit, City of Kingston, City of Thunder Bay, and more, gilding their riders with a better app experience 👑 - Policy: we're working with US agencies to help riders get out the vote, and we're helping our friends at Riders Alliance to bring better transit service to New Yorkers 🤝 All that and more 👉 https://lnkd.in/e-quCrgs