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- An open API for all train and bus timetables and up to date changes. Imagine being in an unfamiliar city, opening Google maps. It finds your location, you cli
by gravitycop 18y ago
- An open API for all train and bus timetables and up to date changes. Imagine being in an unfamiliar city, opening Google maps. It finds your location, you click where you want to go, it finds a bus/underground route for you, next few buses, option to buy a ticket.
Why not simply take a taxi cab?
- jodrellblank 18y agoBecause that wouldn't illustrate my point to the previous poster that improvements for road/rail will be to do with people and information, not so much cars or trains directly. :) Why not use public transport? - Because you don't know where it is. Enter technology to point you to a bus/train station. Enter GPS on your phone to guide you to it. - Because you don't know which route / bus / train to take. Enter an open transit information system so your phone can tell you, on the fly. - Because you don't know if this is the right bus/train to get on. Enter QR codes on the side of the bus so your phone can confirm it for you. - Because you don't know which stop to get off at. Enter GPS on your phone to tell you. - Because you don't know which ticket to get or if you have the right change. Enter your mobile and your phonebill or other integrated low-hassle small-quantity payment service.