By Frank on May 11, 2010
Human Transit makes an interesting argument in regards to trolley buses: Trolleybuses attract a particular kind of polarized NIMBYism: Replace them with regular buses, and neighbors scream becuase of the noise. Extend them, however, and different neighbors scream because you’re hanging wires on their street. So trolleybus lines have a tendency to not change or [...]
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By bgtothen on November 22, 2008
So what do you think? Can I get it’s about time in the house!
One Bus Away is starting to get attention.
Seattle Magazine gave it a great review. Hopefully Metro is taking notice.
ps sorry for the horrible picture. I’ll get a better one soon.
Posted in bus trolley, piercecounty, profits, railroads, ride free zone
By Frank on June 30, 2008
Check it out here. I like the interface: clean, simple and optimized for mobile devices. I’ve been using this one for a few months, and it’s okay, but takes forever to scroll down to to the stop you want. I think organizing the data primarily by bus, rather than by stop, makes more sense, at least for my use.
I like the intuitive appeal of “I’m at this intersection, what buses are coming my way?” But in practice, there are just too many intersections for the interface design. And most of the time you’re probably really only interested in one or two known buses.
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Posted in bus trolley, regional transit, tolls
By bgtothen on April 7, 2008
As promised here is an updated on my independent study. Since I meet with Prof. Dailey in the CSE department my studies have mostly focused on Mybus and how the information that is already there can be better communicated and used by riders.
As I documented earlier I first focused on how print information both at the stop and in leaflet form could look, which can bee seen here and here.
Since then I have been focusing on what the online information should consist of and how it should be communicated. I decided that the online component needs a better way of intuitively and quickly finding the mybus information, which resulted in the google map that I created. Currently mybus stop ids are in a tabular form split over 8 different webpages, which really isn’t too easy to use.
My map includes all 1020 mybus timepoints. Each marker is linked to the corresponding mybus website, which a user can then bookmark. The next step is to improve the arrival time interface to a more initiative countdown or graphic format. I have a good idea of what I want to do but I’m trying to figure out the technical aspects right now.
Posted in bus trolley, buses, downtown, iPhone, pedestrians, piercecounty, routes, sense of place
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