The Miami-Dade Transit Tracker, available on iPhone and Androids, provides Metrobus routes and arrival times for Metrorail, Metrobus and Metromover.
“Basically, we’re the ones that allow them to run their routes, so that requires cooperation with us in terms of making sure their routes support our greater network,” she said. “Most of the cities right now don’t have any type of passenger counting equipment since they don’t have fare collection the circulators are free.”Ībout 22% of the transit sales tax that voters approved in 2002 to expand transit now funds the circulators, Ms. “Then we’ll have real data instead of the estimates we receive right now,” she said. Miami-Dade has progressed in this over two years but hasn’t yet had full cooperation from every municipality, said Transportation Director Alice Bravo, who said the county would need new equipment to accurately track the circulators. Integrating their information into the county transit app, as well as funneling the data to services like Google Maps and Apple Maps, would establish a single transit system to provide better and more accurate options, a memo from County Attorney Abigail Price-Williams said. We need to view them as that and not as competition, but we need to make sure not taking away our riders as well.”Īs county transit use has plunged, including a 12% Metrobus drop from last year, local circulators since 2013 have added 10% a year. “By beginning to pull this information together, it will allow us to get an additional outlook in terms of how the trolley system really benefits the system. “This is some good legislation – something I’ve been talking about for some time in terms of integrating our trolley systems into our regular transit system,” said Commissioner Dennis Moss. The measure by Daniella Levine Cava would require cities with new or altered circulators to supply travel and rider data for circulatory and on-demand services like county-run ridesharing every three months. Cities might soon have to feed route and use data for their trolleys and shuttles into Miami-Dade’s transit tracker app: commissioners on Friday backed a plan to better tie the local runs to the countywide network.
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