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I can't honestly see passengers paying extra for this. I see the transit company/department as the customer. In reality they already gps track all their fleets

I can't honestly see passengers paying extra for this. I see the transit company/department as the customer. In reality they already gps track all their fleets in the US, its just a matter of exposing the data in a digestible format. If they opened up APIs, some enterprising individual could build apps on top of it, and sell the apps or run ads across. Sidenote, what about the security issues related to sharing this data? Are there any?

pavel_lishin 15y ago
> I can't honestly see passengers paying extra for this. People whose jobs are relatively inflexible when it comes to arrival times would pay. My girlfriend basically has to guess and hope that the train runs on time in order to make it to work - it would be super nice to pull up a site when we wake up and see the current locations of the trains, and an estimated arrival time based on actual data, rather than the MTA's dreams and wishes. It would also be great to know whether a train has recently left the station at night - should I wait 2 minutes for the next train, or should I just start biking and arrive at my destination before the train even shows?