Halifax bus travel in the palm of your hand with launch of mobile application Transit To Go (itunes link)
T2Go Halifax Routes Around Me Screenshot
Making public transportation simpler for the Haligonian bus traveller, Nova Scotia based IT firm MindSea Development has created and launched its first iPhone application, Transit to Go, which offers its users transit information by both route number and location.
Metro Transit provides reliable service, but this system can be difficult to navigate and decipher, even for experienced riders, especially when traveling at non-peak times and from stops not detailed on the paper- based schedules. Patrons can struggle when determining what route to take at different times throughout the day, the nearest stop location at any given point, and the exact time of the buses’ scheduled arrival. Transit to Go has been developed to respond to this challenge, providing a user-friendly guide to the peninsula’s transit system for the commuting iPhone owner.
The application, the brainchild of software developers Dmitri Dolguikh, Willliam Lachance and Bill Wilson, is simple: when using Transit to Go, a patron can either input a stop number into the “Look up Stop” screen, or use the “Around Me” option and have the device’s GPS technology, or the manual entry of an address, aid in determining the location and schedule of nearby stops.
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