Build a better transit website without building transit technology from scratch
Give passengers access to maps, timetables, real-time information and service alerts through the website you already have. Ride Guide provides the specialist transit functionality, while your team retains control of the wider website, content and brand.
Transit websites are different
Specialist passenger-information functionality is different:
GTFS processing
Maps
Complex schedules
Real-time feeds
Service alerts
Accessibility
Continuously changing information
Most website content can be managed easily by a capable internal team or website agency. Pages about fares, policies, news and contact information work well within a standard content management system.
Passenger information is more specialised. Interactive maps, complex timetables, real-time feeds and service alerts must interpret continuously changing transit data and present it in a clear, responsive and accessible way. Building and maintaining that functionality can add significant complexity to an otherwise straightforward website project.
Separate your website from your transit technology
Your CMS
Ride Guide
Keep the CMS your team already understands
Ride Guide is designed to work within an agency’s existing website rather than requiring a new content management system. Its responsive tools can be added using lightweight embed code and configured to fit the available space and agency branding.
Our team works with your internal digital team or website agency to determine where each tool should appear and provides the exact embed code needed to add it. This allows you to retain your current CMS, established publishing processes and existing website partner.
Make your next website redevelopment simpler
A website redevelopment does not need to include the design and development of a new transit information platform. Ride Guide allows agencies, councils and their website partners to include established passenger-information tools within the new website while concentrating the wider project on content, structure, branding and user experience.
This also gives procurement teams a clearer way to define responsibilities. The website provider delivers the broader digital experience, while Ride Guide provides and maintains the specialist transit functionality. Our team can work directly with the selected website agency or your team to support implementation and testing.
Already have a website you like?
You do not need to wait for a full website redevelopment to use Ride Guide. Maps, timetables and service alerts can be added to existing route, network and passenger-information pages, allowing you to improve specific parts of the experience without replacing the rest of your website.
Ride Guide can be configured to suit your agency and added in stages, starting with the tools or pages that will provide the most immediate benefit to passengers.
See Ride Guide using your network
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