PocketGTT genesis
During Christmas 2011 holidays I got an idea! It could have been useful to make the good service provided by GTT easily available on mobile phones. If you visit GTT’s website, you could get a lot of realtime information about the public transport in Turin. Public transport in Turin are really well spreaded, and city’s coverage is great. But unfortunately Turin suffers from a typical problem in italian cities: the traffic congestion!
Now imagine that you are waiting at a bus stop, you won’t really see a timesheet… I’ll make an example: on the paper time sheet you will read something like “on Tuesday from 17:00 to 19:00 bus N. 5 comes every 10 minutes“. But the statistic is still valid if you wait 30 minutes and then 3 buses arrive all together! Don’t laugh… it happens!!! 🙂
In central stops GTT built digital displays to show how many minutes you will have to wait for your bus, but what if you’re not in one of those stops? Or, if it is January and outside it is raining and you don’t want to exit and wait 15 minutes for the bus? Well then the idea of a simple app doesn’t look that bad, doesn’t it?
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