http://www.trilliumtransit.com/blog Trillium Solutions home Fri, 18 Jul 2008 23:15:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Last week, the new version of Google Maps for mobile added transit directions. This means that if your agency is in Google Maps/Transit, then people in your area can look up transit information from their connected mobile phone/PDA when they're on-the-go and need the information most. Read more about some ... http://www.trilliumtransit.com/blog/2008/06/09/google-maps-for-mobile-includes-transit/ Rising gas prices are sending people who formerly drove to seek out other options. On Saturday, the New York Times reported that some public transit systems are seeing ridership increases of up to 10 and 15 percent or more over last year in Gas Prices Send Surge of Riders ... http://www.trilliumtransit.com/blog/2008/05/12/conventional-schedules-and-maps-harder-to-use-than-you-think/ Selling transit passes with an online store that accepts credit cards is a great way of making it more convenient for riders to purchase fare media, keep buses rolling on schedule (by avoiding time-consuming on-board pass sales), and even streamline ticket sales that usually happen through a retail location. Ask Humboldt ... http://www.trilliumtransit.com/blog/2008/04/28/online-store-boosts-transit-pass-sales/ Trillium recently collaborated with Viewpoint Geography for Bay Crossings to implement beautiful real-time "next arrival" displays for BART and SF Muni in downtown San Francisco locations. Trillium provided the PHP application that serves up the data, and Viewpoint created a sleek, beautiful flash presentation to show the real-time data on large ... http://www.trilliumtransit.com/blog/2008/04/21/real-time-schedule-displays/ Trillium is proud to announce that another client, Rio Vista Delta Breeze in California has launched on Google Transit.  Rio Vista has launched as part of the Google Transit Earth Day Challenge. Rio Vista chose to put their schedules on Google Transit because scheduling was confusing riders.  This will make things ... http://www.trilliumtransit.com/blog/2008/04/17/rio-vista-delta-breeze-added-to-google-transit/ Google announced that they've added the capability for people to add and edit locations in Google Maps. What does this mean for riders and agencies who use Google Transit? Since Google Transit is integrated with Maps, then presumably this means that locations and place names people use to ... http://www.trilliumtransit.com/blog/2008/03/27/add-locations-in-google-mapstransit/ The Trillium-developed Redwood Transit System website and its use of Google Transit was featured in the updated version of a presentation the Portland TriMet CTO gave at APTA's TransITech conference. See “Leveraging resources for customer information by exposing transit data” below. | View | Upload your own The TriMet presentation ... http://www.trilliumtransit.com/blog/2008/03/06/trillium-transit-work-featured-in-talk-on-transit-data-future/ MetroRiderLA has a post on the PDF schedules on Metro's website. The blogger, Fred Camino, expresses his frustration with the PDF format when used as the exclusive means to present transit schedule data. He calls PDF schedules "obtrusive, annoying, and unwieldy." Another widely-regarded expert on general web usability ... http://www.trilliumtransit.com/blog/2008/02/24/pdf-schedules-make-unhappy-riders-web-surfers/ A new website, linked to Google Transit, and featuring downloadable schedules for PDAs, iPods, and mobile phones, has been part of more than 30% year-over-year ridership boost for Redwood Transit System in Northern California. See more features and information here, FTA: Innovative Practices for Increased Ridership. A new bus pass program also ... http://www.trilliumtransit.com/blog/2008/02/21/fta-names-rts-website-with-google-transit-innovative-practice-for-increased-ridership/ Many bus riders have a routine that only involves a few stops — one near their home, and another near work, for example. Looking at a complicated schedule grid that shows stop times for every other stop on the route or in the system, then, is an experience of ... http://www.trilliumtransit.com/blog/2008/01/17/avoid-information-overload-with-schedules-for-riders%e2%80%99-favorite-stops/