Mobile Web Tools & Apps
Tools for Mobile Web
These tools are optimized to work your mobile device's web browser, without downloading an application.
CommuterPage.com Mobile Services
CommuterPage.com Mobile Services delivers ART schedules and other transit information directly to your phone's web browser.
Tools available include:
- ART RealTime arrival predictions (see above for more information)
- Full schedules for ART, Metrobus routes in Virginia, CUE, DASH, Fairfax Connector, Loudoun County Transit, OmniRide, and VRE
- Upcoming scheduled arrival times for the transit systems listed above
- Point-to-Point Schedules customized for your start and end points and the time you want to travel
- CommuterPage.com Commuter News and Events, including service alerts for ART and Metro
- Sign up to receive service alerts by email or text message
- Cost of Commuting Calculator -- see how much you could be saving by using public transportation
Point your mobile browser to www.commuterpage.com/mobile.
Metro - Mobile Services
Several of Metro's online services are now available on any web-enabled phone. These services include:
- Plan a Trip
- Next Scheduled Departure
- Next Train
- Next Bus
- Elevator/Escalator Outages
- Service Disruptions
- System Map
- SmarTrip/Charm Card Mobile
Point your mobile browser to www.wmata.com/mobile.
Mobile Applications (Apps)
ARTBus
This is a free app for Android devices provides ART RealTime arrival predictions for any ART stop. ART riders can:
- Find stops nearby (using GPS and Google Maps)
- Input a bus stop ID or browse a list of stops organized by route
- Save a list of their favorite stops
- View stops that they accessed recently
- Add a widget to their homepage
Get more information and download the app from Android Market. or find out more on the ARTBus for Android Facebook page.
ART on Layar Reality Browser
This free tool works with Android devices and iPhones (3GS and newer). The technology is called "Augmented Reality," and allows users to look through their phone as if they were going to take a picture, and see superimposed information about their surroundings.
Layar uses a combination of the phone’s camera, compass and GPS data to identify the user’s location, retrieve useful data about the user’s surroundings, and overlay that information over the camera view.
The ART data layer shows the direction and distance to ART stops, and provides ART RealTime arrival information. Users can also view bus stop locations in list or map views.
There's also data for Capital Bikeshare locations and WalkArlington Walkabout points of interest. See the ART on Layar page for more information.
Capital Rails
App for iPhone and iPad. This app provides real-time Metrorail arrival information for the stations you're interested in. Rather than scroll through arrivals for all train stations and destinations, every rider can easily customize “Capital Rails” to only display their favorite stations. It's easy to change your favorites and create a new, custom list of stations for each trip. Preview on iTunes.
SpotCycle
A Capital Bikeshare app for iPhone, BlackBerry, and Android. Let's say you took ART and Metrorail to get to work this morning, and now you'd like to run a quick lunchtime errand using Capital Bikeshare. This app will help you locate stations near the start and end points of your trip and tell you the status -- how many bikes and empty docks are available. Spotcycle - your personal bikesharing assistant.
User Comments
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