New improvements have come to Transit, a versatile trip planning app, focused on providing better information about real-time arrival information and vehicle location. The latest update also fixed a long-standing issue where zooming out to navigate away from the user’s active location would suddenly pull the map back in toward the user’s location like a magnet. These new system changes apply to the iOS platform, but should soon follow for Android users.
In terms of real-time arrival information, users will be able to get a good sense of how accurate the information. Grey means that the data is old or stale. Active reporting from vehicles will appear in color. Users can get the detailed reporting information when selecting a route and tapping on the pin tab under the route card. Another way is when the GO trip planning mode is in use.
A new function added is live counting by the second from the last data report if within a minute. A short YouTube simulation demonstrates how to use the new function:
