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Google Transit:
Google recently unveiled their new Transit Trip Planner. This is part of Google Maps and allows users to plan a transit trip in the Google Maps interface. Transit agencies that participate have their routes and stops noted on Google Maps. The intention of Google Transit is not to replace the trip planners many agencies have on their web sites but to encourage the transit option for a whole new set of consumers. The Google folks suggest that if someone who doesn’t normally use transit sees that there is a bus route that is conveniently noted on their Google map they may consider taking transit. There are only ten agencies in the US that have uploaded their information. We’d like Colorado to be the first state to get all of their transit agencies with fixed route service uploaded. As part of this effort CASTA staff would endeavor to get Governor Ritter to acknowledge the accomplishment with some sort of proclamation like declaring a “State Transit Day”. We will also work on getting buy in from various elected officials and provide press kits with press releases for agencies to use to make a splash in their community. Next we plan to take the momentum gained by the Google Transit project and use it to carry us into a full-fledged state-wide Try Transit Day/Week in the Fall of 2008. A number of people were able to sit in on a Google Transit Webinar during the spring conference to get a better feel for what’s involved in the process. For more information contact Ann Rajewski. |
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