Google Tests Out Google Transit Trip Planner
Google has launched yet another beta project–Google Transit. It’s only available for Portland, Oregan at the moment, but it’s a pretty nifty expression of transit routes across the city. It even provides the cost for a trip (and comparative costs for driving), and associated walking on either end of the route. Here’s an example, and here’s the official spiel:
Google Transit Trip Planner enables you to enter the specifics of your trip—where you’re starting, where you’re ending up, what time of day you’d like to leave and/or arrive—then uses all available public transportation schedules and information to plot out the most efficient possible step-by-step itinerary. You can even compare the cost of your trip with the cost of driving the same route!
Apparently Google has plans to roll it out nationwide.
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