New Jersey Transit Partners With Google
Both BusinessWeek and New Jersey Transit announce that Google will soon be helping New Jersey Transit train riders plan their trips.
"Under a deal announced earlier this week, travelers will be able to use Google Transit to get trip times and transfers between 164 rail stations and 60 light rail stations. The information will be integrated with Google Maps.
More than 30 transportation agencies around the country now offer Google trip planning, but NJ Transit is the first in the Northeast."
FWIW, New Jersey Transit has consistently avoided ESRI technology in the past, and this most recent development continues the trend.
Posted by Atanas Entchev at 3/14/2008 6:10 PM 
Categories: New Jersey,Transit,NJ Transit,NJT,Business,Google,NJ,GIS,Intergraph
Categories: New Jersey,Transit,NJ Transit,NJT,Business,Google,NJ,GIS,Intergraph
GeoSystems, the company that became MapQuest.com worked on a multi-modal transit system back around 1995 for NJ Transit. I was working on the spatial data side of GeoSystems and back then, it was considerably harder to append a state's worth of data together.
The project fell apart when the "bus stop" data from NJ Transit turned out to be pages and pages of hand written logs from retired drivers following the buses in a pickup truck. Wow, have times changed...Unix Sparc stations, DEC Alpha's, ArcInfo 6x...
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Wow i don't know that Google Map has this Google Transit. This tool is very efficient for travelers to keep track of the trip's time.
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