“It’s like having a countdown clock for your bus in your pocket. As part of that launch, the MTA improved the service by offering user-friendly features such as a map-based street grid view that shows buses moving in real time, automatic displays of nearby bus routes, and time-based arrival estimates that were available to pilot-program Bronx bus routes only. Launched in June, Bus Time™, New York City Transit’s live bus tracking service, is available as a desktop service on the MTA website and as a free downloadable app for iOS and Android smartphones. If those conditions change, MTA Bus Time™ automatically updates the prediction. Previously, MTA Bus Time™ users tracked buses based on distance between a queried bus and the customer’s current location, either as a number of stops away or a distance in miles. Time-based estimates take into consideration multiple factors that can affect the arrival time of a bus, including schedule, historical travel times over the same distance in the month prior, and current traffic conditions. The new feature gives customers a time-based estimate of a bus’s arrival at a queried stop. 4, Metropolitan Transportation Authority New York City Transit’s MTA Bus Time™ service will offer a new feature that provides time-based bus arrival estimates in addition to distance-based information at any given stop citywide, which, according to the agency, will allow customers to see when their bus will arrive and help them plan trips more efficiently. PHOTO: MTA New York City Transit will soon offer commuters a new feature to the Bus Time™ app that will provide time-based bus arrival estimates in addition to distance-based information at any given stop citywide. MTA to Roll Out New Bus Time™ Arrival-Estimate Feature
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