Comment Re:DC Metro Trip Planner (Score 1) 325
Sure most of the big operations have them, but the smaller ones don't. I work for a medium/small transit agency in Eugene, OR. The metro area is around 200k people. We have been looking at trip planners for a while and they are not cheap. Most of the software companies that make systems that you can integrate with have their prices targeted for large agencies that can justify the cost. We can't. Google presents a very good opportunity for us though. If all we have to do is delivery them scheduling data, then we can delivery something to our customers that we were not able to before.
Recently one of our IT staff was at a conference and got a chance to talk to some of the google people who are working on this project. They said very specifically that they are interested in even supporting the smaller agencies like ours. I have no idea how quick google wants to grow this, but I'm very excited at the possibility of being able to work with them on this kind of system.
Recently one of our IT staff was at a conference and got a chance to talk to some of the google people who are working on this project. They said very specifically that they are interested in even supporting the smaller agencies like ours. I have no idea how quick google wants to grow this, but I'm very excited at the possibility of being able to work with them on this kind of system.
