Bikewise is a mashup that combines bicycling hazards, crashes, and thefts with Google Maps. Developed by the Cascade Bicycle Club based in Seattle, Washington. Bikewise allows people to create accounts and post reports of their own incidents, adding them to the map.
Buckeye Traffic is an interactive map using the Microsoft Maps API from the Ohio Department of Transportation, which informs drivers of traffic conditions throughout the state. Users can filter based upon types of incidents, where webcameras and VMS, and weather conditions.
Calgary Transit have ported their route and schedule data into the Google maps API to make a fairly simple tool for people to choose a route and visualize it. It allows users to pick and choose as many routes as they’d like to see, search by address, or even by landmark.
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The Washington DC DOT recently announced their new bikesharing proposal with a map. What a great way to use an interactive map for public involvement.
(Via Greater Greater Washington)
CrashStat 2.0 was developed by bicycling and pedestrian advocates Transportation Alternatives to help visualize traffic incidents with bicycle and pedestrian injuries or fatalities in New York City. The tool is intended to help anybody, from neighborhood residents, city planner, or journalists, to get an accurate view of safety for any location within the city.
The Deleware Department of Transportation Interactive Map is a mashup that combines data about the location of traffic cameras, incidents, and DOT offices, on a Google map. The interface is clear and intuitive, and can give people pertinent information about road conditions more efficiently than a text-based interface.
Perhaps the most well known transportation mashup is Google Transit, which integrates route and schedule information for a number of different transit agencies around the world, to provide trip planning assistance. The agencies listed are those that have public data feeds in the format specified by Google. One example is from Sacramento Regional Transit, whose Google transit interface is easier to read and plan a route than the one provided on their online trip planner.
Here is a blog post with the testimonial of three agencies who have worked with Google to provide data feeds.
Aviation site Jaunted has a neat interactive map showing airports with wi-fi and any associated costs. Definitely a handy thing to check out before your next trip.
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet uses their 511 portal to feature an interactive map that alerts drivers to potential hazards, severe weather, road construction, and other events that may interfere with traffic flow.
Mobile Millennium is a project through the California Center for Innovative Transportation (CCIT), the UC Berkeley College of Engineering, Caltrans, USDOT, Nokia, and NAVTEQ. It uses GPS data from smartphones to have vehicles act as probes to measure traffic flow. This information is displayed on the phone to relay traffic conditions. Currently the pilot only covers the San Francisco Bay Area, though there are plans to expand it.
MoDOT Traveler Information Map is an interactive map that combines information about road closures, either from incidents, work zones, or weather conditions, and the Google Maps API.
The Ministry of Transportation in Ontario has this Interactive Map which informs travellers of incidents, road conditions, congestion, and potential construction. It uses the Google Maps API.
Google Labs just launched a new Android app to help you find parking. Open Spot works through crowd sourcing. As you leave a parking spot, make a note on the map. Then others can see the “freshness” of that spot.
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The Rhode Island Department of Transportation has a website for the RIDOT Economic Recovery Program which includes this Google Map of all the economic recovery projects statewide. This convenient mashup shows RIDOT involvement and keeps citizens informed and involved.
Roadify is a new group-sourced transportation website, that provides real-time information to travelers around Brooklyn. Currently their “Paking Around Me” (PAM) service lets people, through text messaging, let the community know when parking spots open up or where open spots are. Their new services “Buses Around Me” will launch soon. You can also check them out on Twitter @roadify.
Routefriend is a new mashup that helps people plan trips using transit and rail in the New York and Boston areas. It combines information from different agencies and the Google Maps API.
SafeRoadMaps.com is an interactive map, based upon the Google Maps API, which displays information about traffic accidents and road safety. It is sponsored by the Univerity of Minnesota and the Center for Excellence in Rural Safety.
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The folks at Transportation 4 America have created a Google Map covering transit cuts around the country. As you can see, cutbacks are very widespread. The map is an effective way of showing the toll of the economic downturn on transit.
Trapster is a mashup where users can supply information about speed traps and red-light cameras to be shared with the community. The platform uses the Google Maps API.
Triptrop NYC is a mashup that helps people estimate average travel times from different addresses in New York City. The map is generated with the Google Maps API, subway line information, and traffic information.
Tube Exits is an application for the iPhone to help travelers navigate the London Underground system. Tube Exits provides users with information to help them beat crowded platforms, such as which side of the train the exits open, exit information for ‘Way Out’ and line interchanges. The app costs £2.99 for the full version, whilst Tube Exits Lite is free. Watch a demo of the application in action. They also use Twitter to provide information about updates to Tube Exit and solicit feedback.
