What makes this Trip Planner different? For the first time, you can get transit, biking and walking directions in a single itinerary—something not even Google Maps does at this time. So not only is it easier to plan multimodal trips, you can get more efficient routes, which cuts down on your travel time.
Here’s what you can do with it:
Plan trips combining transit, biking and walking, in a single itinerary
Specify your biking preferences for quickest, flattest or safest routes
View an elevation chart of your trip
View car-sharing locations, so you can easily plan transit or bike trips to Zipcars
View up-to-date bike routes and walking paths
The app uses OpenStreetMap, a wiki-like map, to keep bike routes and walking paths up-to-date. It also allows for future inclusion of other transit systems, such as C-TRAN and SMART. Even better, it was built from the ground up with open-source software, which means it was less expensive to develop, and the technology can be used by other agencies worldwide.
This project has been two years in the making, and I’m delighted to finally be able to share it with our riders. It started in 2009, when we partnerned with non-profit OpenPlans and assembled a team of talented developers from around the world to help out. Metro provided funding through its Regional Travel Options grant program.
You can preview the new Trip Planner at rtp.trimet.org. (It’s in beta, which means we’re testing it out with users for a few months. Eventually, it will replace the map trip planner at trimet.org.)
I’m hopeful that over time, this app will help encourage more people to leave their cars at home and bike or walk part or all of the way instead. (It’s already got people talking, and the project was even featured on the White House blog.)
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