Via The Washington Post

The Ride DC large-screen display, introduced by the D.C. Department of Transportation in December, combines multiple real-time transit options on the same neighborhood map. It provides arrival information for Metrorail and Metro and Circulator buses, and also tracks the availability of nearby Capital Bikeshare and Car2Go vehicles. The one thing it hasn’t offered is portability.

That wasn’t an oversight, DDOT chief information officer Jose Colon said last month.

“The first initiative was to develop a dashboard portal for the public to create their own transit screen,” he said. “They’re able to display it on a large monitor at their facility. This could be a school, an apartment building, any retail establishment.”

Now all that travel information can also be retrieved on smartphones through the Ride DC Trip Planner. The mobile app was released late last month for Android devices, as a free download from the Google Play store. An iPhone version is expected to be available soon.

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