23 November 2011

New App for Canberra Buses. Works on all devices.

23 November 2011 | By maven

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G’day. iTranzit – Canberra is now available.

What is it?

iTranzit is an app for public transport in Canberra.

Features.

Find out when the Next Service is. Routes / Stops, Timetables, Route maps, Rider alerts and more.

Works on all devices.

iTranzit works on pretty much on all Phones, Tablets and Desktops. Access anytime, anywhere.

Give it a go.

Visit http://canberra.itranzit.com/ and bookmark it.
or Scan the QR code below.

Your feedback is valuable.

Please send your comments, suggestions to canberra@itranzit.com.

iTranzit is designed & developed by MyndWorks.

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davo10112:05 pm 28 Nov 11

Lazy I said :

astrojax said :

yes, but where is the app that will make a bus actually turn up and take me where i want when i want to go now..?

It’s called a car.

It’s called a “cab”.

Lazy I11:47 am 28 Nov 11

astrojax said :

yes, but where is the app that will make a bus actually turn up and take me where i want when i want to go now..?

It’s called a car.

astrojax11:11 am 28 Nov 11

yes, but where is the app that will make a bus actually turn up and take me where i want when i want to go now..?

Lazy I9:25 am 28 Nov 11

The slide animation needs to go in reverse when the ‘Back’ button is pressed, otherwise it feels like you are stepping forward when you’re actually returning to a previous page.

maven7:58 am 28 Nov 11

Thanks very much for all your feedback. We have added new features to the LITE version. Notable are

1. Favourites
Add your routes / stops to fav. Once added you are just a touch away from finding out the ‘Next Service’.

2. Find Nearest Stop.
Shows top 5 nearest stops from your location with distance.

3. Route filter.
Filters the routes as you type. Saves you from scrolling thro’ the list.

Visit http://canberra.itranzit.com/lite.html

We have noticed that the user exp is superior in Firefox, Chrome, Safari compared to Internet Explorer. So if you are using IE, pl. try with other browsers to see the difference.

mcwingstar9:58 am 24 Nov 11

davo101 said :

maven said :

1) Yes, its a Web App(lication)

I’m starting to regret having brought up the point. Fine, let’s just go with “app”.

I came to this conclusion after I used the Google App to search for a defintion of web application and found that the Wikipedia App had an article on it, after which I used the riotact App to post my thoughts on it 🙂

If you want to get technical, yes it is an application. The title of this post is just misleading, as the abbreviation “app” is almost exlusivley used to refer to applications run upon a client device, rather than a server with browser accessing the output. This is not helped by “works on all devices” which, while sort of accurate, also implies that it is working “on” devices, not viewed through a browser.

Anyway, not really important, nice application, though I feel like you should streamline navigation a little (there are even more clicks to get to bus information than the actual action website, unless you at a popular terminus). This direction might be helped when you get some usage stats during the beta.

How are figuring out which routes are popular?

davo1019:31 am 24 Nov 11

hotwasabee said :

Sooo if it’s not ACTION endrosed, who’s paying for it? I’m looking for the money making component of this [web] app[lication] and it’s not jumping out at me.

MyndWorks seems to specialise in building web-sites optimized for mobile devices and have a product to interface between existing databases and the web-site. So I’m guessing it promotion-ware ie: like this, think it’s useful? Call us and we can build something for your company/department. I have to admit it’s a pretty good idea; it probably didn’t take long to whip up and if you can get people to use it then your name is under a lot of eye-balls.

dpm8:28 am 24 Nov 11

davo101 said :

Technically not an app, it’s a web-site.

As with MyBus it will be much more useful once the real-time bus information is prised out of ACTION and we can have something like this.

That’s pretty cool!

hotwasabee7:20 am 24 Nov 11

Sooo if it’s not ACTION endrosed, who’s paying for it? I’m looking for the money making component of this [web] app[lication] and it’s not jumping out at me.

maven9:35 pm 23 Nov 11

FioBla said :

If I wanted to know the next available buses, the app’s “Next Service, Route Finder, 27” feature will tell me about the 4:21pm bus, the 5:21pm bus, but not the 4:53pm bus.

I see your point. iTranzit relies on Action’s data.

One way to get what you want is to find the stop (Woden Int. platform 3 in your case) and the “Next Service” from this stop should give you all departures including 26, 27, 226, 227. You can navigate to respective route from there.

Hope this helps..