Walk Score team releases online transit app

Transit Score

Jon Boyd, Aug 19, 10.

Front Score, the same developers who created Walk Score, has released an online application called, “Transit Score,” as reported by Jonathan Hiskes:

First there was Walk Score, the web tool that calculates how walkable a neighborhood is and ranks it on a 100-point scale.

Today the same developers release Transit Score, an app that ranks how well-served a location is by buses and rail lines. It measures how far you’d have to walk to a transit stop and how often trains and buses arrive (trains count for more) and assigns a separate 1-100 score.

New York City’s Grand Central Station, for example, gets a perfect 100 (a “Rider’s Paradise”). Transit Score so far serves 30 major U.S. cities that make their transit data available in a developer-friendly format.

It’s one of three new features released today by Front Seat, a Seattle “civic software” company that works to promote walkable neighborhoods. The other two are equally intriguing.

The new commute reports feature side-by-side estimates of how long it takes to reach a destination by walking, biking, driving, or riding transit. It’s similar to Google Maps, from which it draws data, although Walk Score’s presentation makes it easier to compare options.