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June Ridership Up 10%
HART makes schedule, route data available to developers |
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HART bus ridership numbers for June are in!
- Bus ridership for June 2011 is 1,142,935, up 10 percent from the same month last year.
- Bus ridership year to date (October 2010 - June 2011) is up 13 percent compared to the same nine months last year.
- This year, ridership is projected to reach 13 million, breaking last year's record of 12.3 million trips!
To improve schedule and route information for customers, HART is now publically sharing data from its General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS). This gives third-party software developers the data they need to build transit-related web and phone applications.
Transit agencies throughout the country practice this open-source philosophy and a variety of useful transit tools have been created for riders.
HART riders currently have access to the RouteShout application, but will soon have more options to choose from as more applications using HART data are developed.
Software developers can find the GTFS data at www.goHART.org/developers
For more information about HART or RouteShout, visit www.goHART.org or call 813-254-4278.
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