Commuter Trip Planning
Comprehensive trip planning tools make it easy to find a better way.
Carpooling
Help minimize traffic congestion by easily finding and connecting with neighbors and coworkers interested in carpooling.
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About the Trip Planning Engine
The centerpiece of the RideAmigos platform is its comprehensive multimodal trip planner. Through the intuitive, easy-to-use interface, users can search for all available, transportation options that suit them based on parameters such as:
- origin/destination,
- time/date
- arrival/departure time
- local or regional events
Commute options are displayed for any modes that are chosen and accessible (including localized modes like shuttles), and are presented with both short and detailed itineraries of the trip. Informed commuter choice, and exploration of new transportation options is the result.
Our multimodal trip planner delivers powerful benefits to organizations looking for ways to promote transportation alternatives for commuters.
Basic Modes
… are only the beginning
Biking & Walking
Find the safest and most direct walking and cycling routes for all or part of your journey. You’ll even see how many calories you’ll burn on your way.
Vanpools
See pickup points and times for public or private vanpools available in your area. A built-in messaging system prevents communication breakdowns between rideshare and vanpool drivers and end users.
Public Transit
Plan trips using any combination of regional light rail, bus, subway and streetcar services. Get journey time estimates, identify transfer points and much more with the simple touch of a screen.
Ridesharing Apps
Ridesharing apps such as Lyft and Uber are an increasingly important option for many commuters. RideAmigos can give access to ridesharing options right within our trip planner.
Add Layers, Transit, and Bikeshare Feeds
… and start building your localized experience
In order to provide users with a complete and convenient trip-planning tool, our platform’s interactive features offer extensive options to organizations. Additional data sources can be used to augment the trip planning experience by adding relevant layers to relevant maps such as:
- traffic information
- parking availability
- locations of park and ride lots
- car-shares and bike-shares
- landmarks
- events
- you name it… if there’s a data source, it can be a part of your trip-planner. For more information about add-ons to trip planning maps see our customization options.
Local General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) data can be leveraged in real time to provide:
- the most accurate routing and schedule information
- service advisories
- other pertinent station or route information.
General Bikeshare Feed Specification (GBFS) data can also be used to connect to mobility options such as:
- docked bikeshare stations
- dockless bikeshare bikes
- dockless scooters
Experts agree that the future of urban transportation will be heavily influenced by technology. The ways people get around aren’t expected to undergo significant change, but their methods of accessing the modes already in place will. We’ve designed our software platform for exactly that reason — to put complete information in the hands of the people whose daily choices are the key to relieving traffic congestion, reducing pollution, and increasing the wellbeing of our communities.
For a detailed demonstration of our innovative trip planning interface, contact us for a personalized tour of RideAmigos.