University of Washington Students Create 'OneBusAway' Program To Encourage Public Transportation

Improving the experience of the rider is key to convincing customers to trade the comfort and convenience of their own vehicles for the economic and environmental advantages of public transit. At the University of Washington, students have come a long way toward attaining this goal by developing OneBusAway-a real-time transit information system available for free in a variety of formats: web, phone, SMS texting, Android, and iPhone. OneBusAway provides real-time transit information for Metro Transit, Pierce Transit, Sound Transit, and Washington State Ferries (www.onebusaway.org).  

Because over 91% of Americans use cell phones, developing tools for riders on the go made sense to the creators of OneBusAway,