You can track the movement of ground transport using your phone. How to use your phone to know when the bus is coming

Yandex has added a function to its Yandex.Transport application, with the help of which it will be possible to track the arrival time of city transport in Moscow. This was said in a statement.

With the help of the new function, “the user will be able to find out where the desired bus, trolleybus and tram are currently located, and the forecast in how many minutes they will arrive at the stop,” they clarify in Yandex, adding that the application has access to information about 758 buses. 80 trolleybus and 38 tram routes.

The current location of buses, trolleybuses and trams will be marked on the map by Yandex.Transport. As the vehicle moves, its mark also moves. Yandex receives data on movements from GUP Mosgortrans.

As TASS previously reported, in September 2014, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin and the head of Yandex, Arkady Volozh, signed an agreement under which an Internet company can receive data from the mayor's office to provide services to city residents. In accordance with the document, the Moscow government will provide the Internet company with data on planned road works and movements of urban public transport. The company will also receive data on city parking lots, which will make it possible to pay for them through the new Yandex service. In addition, the integration of the city system for registration of charges and payments and the Yandex.Money service will be carried out, and about 200 news feeds of city authorities will be connected to the Yandex.News news aggregator - news from departments will appear along with media news.

In October last year, the city authorities announced their readiness to transmit data on the geo-position of ground transport vehicles from GLONASS transmitters installed on the city rolling stock, not only to Yandex, but also to other interested companies, one of which is Google. “Not so long ago, we were approached by Google, which also wants to receive this data for its open services,” said Maxim Liksutov, Deputy Moscow Mayor for Transport and Development of Road Transport Infrastructure. - We are ready to provide everyone with this data, because the more applications there are, the more convenient it will be for the user. If there is some kind of competition in the quality of these applications, we will only be glad. "

Every week Look At Me talks about one notable app that is changing the way we think about mobile interfaces, and figuring out what's behind the App Store icon - ideas, technologies, developers. In the new issue - a conversation with the creators of the ETransport application, which allows you to track the movement of urban public transport.

The ET transport application finds the stops closest to the user and displays the direction of travel on them. It is enough to select the desired stop, and the application will calculate how many minutes this or that public transport will arrive.

ETransport provides users with the ability to create their own list of favorite stops and routes, so they don't have to re-search for the ones they use the most.

A tab with a list of favorite stops and routes can be set as home- this will simplify the process of using the application.

The ET Transport application also stores several of the last stops and routes viewed by the user.

The movement of public transport in the application can be tracked both on an interactive map, and according to the list with information about the time of arrival and distance.

The free ETransport application collects information about the location of urban transport equipped with GLONASS sensors, and calculates the arrival time of buses, trolleybuses and trams at a specific stop. The application automatically detects the user's location and prompts him to select one of the nearest stops on an interactive map. Further on the screen a list of routes and the time after which this or that public transport will arrive at the stop are displayed. Thanks to this, you can save time and correctly plan your route. Also in the ETransport application there is a function for saving your favorite stops and the ability to view the history of your movements.

“When we were students and just starting our small business- a mobile app development firm - we lacked an interesting project for a portfolio. I wanted to come to a potential client and say: “Do you know ETransport? We did it! " That is, initially it was a kind of side-project, but in the end it was he who attracted new clients.

The principle of operation of the application itself is quite simple - ETransport determines the user's location and offers to select the nearest transport stops on an interactive map, and then shows the approaching transport and the time after which it will arrive at the stop. The biggest problem associated with the launch of ETransport is that it is necessary to negotiate with the city authorities about the right to access the data of a specific location of all public transport units. In my opinion, this is strange - after all, the convenient service that we create for the townspeople is in the hands of any government. Moreover, this is simply wrong - such data cannot be hidden, they must be in the public domain. In this regard, Peter is at the forefront: the authorities there not only opened this data to everyone, but also encourage the developers of such projects (but ETransport is currently considered the best in terms of functionality). In about 40 other cities, no one hides transport location data, but in Moscow they are practically classified.

In the next month, we will launch ETransport in 11 more cities in Russia, but so far I cannot disclose information about which cities are included in this list. I think their residents will definitely not miss this event. In Moscow, for example, in the first four days we attracted more than 40 thousand users. Unfortunately, not everyone noticed that Moscow (like, by the way, St. Petersburg) is still in beta testing, and there are not many stops and routes in the application, and the information on the location of the transport itself may differ from the real situation.

Promotional video ETransport

In the future, we will definitely add to the application the function of building a route "from point to point", as well as the ability to calculate the travel time and even warn your friends about how many minutes you will arrive. We will also remind users in advance that it is time to leave the house so as not to miss our tram, otherwise the next one will not arrive soon. We will pay more attention to ensuring that users can communicate with each other, choose "King of the Roads" or "Mayor of the Stop." We want people to share valuable information with each other (for example, that there is a control on the line) and discuss different things like rude drivers and singing conductors.

Our team consists of five people. I studied at Ural State University named after Gorky, where I met Maxim Rovkin, our Android developer. He brought the incredible server-man Pasha Dick to our team - on the eve of the most difficult test of the entire training period, he worked all night to ensure that our application in Moscow was launched on time and without problems. It's funny, but we first met our iOS developer Egor Eremeev live after the release of the first version of ETransport. Egor and Max met when they took the Unified State Exam in different cities (Egor - in Naberezhnye Chelny, and Maxim - in Yekaterinburg), but with the same diligence they solved tests for the Far East. Designer Pasha Osipkin found us himself - in January 2013 we received a letter from him in the mail, saying that your application is excellent, but the design is shit. So Pasha became a part of our team, which we are still incredibly happy about ”.

Today, the Yandex Transport application on the phone is a real must-have for everyone who does not have a personal car. This program allows you to find out in real time where the bus, tram or trolleybus is now, calculate the time until it arrives at the desired stop and understand how long it will take to reach the destination. Let's take a closer look at what other benefits the service has.

Public transport in your pocket with Yandex Transport

Yandex has made tracking vehicles as simple and convenient as possible - a clear interface helps you quickly navigate and find out all the information you need.

For example, to see online how soon the tram will be at a particular stop, you just need to click on it. The screen will display the route, where it will be seen where and how long it will arrive. If none of the required transport is on the way, then you will just see the interval of its movement - for example, "every 25 minutes".

If you find yourself in an unfamiliar place, you can quickly assess the situation by looking on the map, which vehicles pass near your location

Not sure how to get to your desired office or store? The application will help here as well, because it will take just a few seconds to build a route from point A to point B. You will be offered all possible options, taking into account different vehicles, fare and speed. Save the routes you like so you don't have to remember it all over again next time!

You can download the program for free on your phone in Google Play and the App Store. Yandex Transport for Windows Phone has not yet been developed

Tracking vehicles with Yandex in any city in Russia

The application works in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Kazan, Penza and other large Russian cities. It is also available for some localities in Ukraine, Belarus, Finland, Hungary, Australia and New Zealand. You can choose your city in the settings.

It is convenient that the public transport that you often use Yandex remembers and can display only it on the map - this is also regulated in the service settings. In addition to bus / minibus / tram / trolleybus stops, the map also displays metro stations and railway platforms.

To watch online for more detailed information, you will have to go to the corresponding applications - Ya.Metro and Ya.Elektricki

It should be noted that the service works somewhat differently in different cities. In many respects, the reliability of information depends on regional partners, so it turns out that in some localities certain types of vehicles may not be displayed.

In the summer of 2017, Yandex Transport also began showing the locations of carsharing cars - cars that can be rented for short-term rent to move around the city. The program provides an opportunity not only to see complete information about the model (brand, number, price, volume of fuel in the tank), but also to build a route to it and even book by going to the application of the corresponding company.

While the function is available only for residents of Moscow and St. Petersburg

Can I use Yandex Transport online without downloading?

Since the program is designed exclusively for use on a smartphone, Yandex Transport does not work in the browser. Therefore, in order to view information without downloading to a mobile device, you need to understand how to work on a PC. This will require:

• download an Android emulator for PC (for example, from Bluestacks - suitable for Windows 7, 8, 10, XP and OS X);
• install, run and add a Google account in the "Accounts" tab;
• download Yandex Transport online in the same way as you usually do on Google Play.

The process will take about 10 minutes, but all subsequent times you can safely use Yandex Transport for a computer online, by analogy with a smartphone

The convenience and benefits of the application are obvious, what can we say. This is especially felt in winter, when you have to stand for a long time in the cold, waiting for a vehicle. And if it also moves at intervals of half an hour / hour, then the only correct solution would be to install Yandex Transport on your phone and never be afraid to be late for the desired route again.

The transport timetable has always been interesting and significant for people living not only in the city, but also behind it, and now you can use Yandex.Transport online for a computer.

The technologies of the modern world have reached the transport schedule (in our countries). Yandex has created an Android application that collects and updates the necessary information for ease of use and greatly simplifying people's lives.

A very convenient application both for use in the settlement where you live and in cases of arrival in an unfamiliar city, which provides an opportunity to determine when and where route vehicles are moving.

• Initially, the goal of the creators of this application was to make it so that a user with any level of knowledge about modern technologies of use and management could easily understand the main functions and features, therefore, the principle of operation is quite logical and there should not be great difficulties in use.
• Connected cities are Moscow, Moscow region, Astana, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Omsk, Kaliningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Perm, Chelyabinsk, Voronezh, Krasnoyarsk, Chelyabinsk, Cherepovets, Lipetsk, Kiev, Astana, Baranovichi, Pinsk and Grodno ( new cities are added to the app every day).

Download Yandex.Transport for Android and iOS devices (iPad, iPhone)

Download Yandex.Transport online for a computer (PC)

The Yandex Transport application is supported only on devices of the android operating system (tablets, smartphones) and on the same Iphone products.

And if you want to install this application on your computer, you must first install Android OS emulator BlueStacks program, by installing which you can download directly from the service Play Market and run android applications on your PC. Support for downloading from the Play Store is available in the functions of the emulator.

• Download BlueStacks and run it on your computer.

• You need find Yandex.Transport on the service Play Market and install. Data entry from can be performed by presetting the input language (in the settings) or simply by copying (if it is more convenient or faster for you), for example, from a notepad and pasting ( ctrl + c and ctrl + v).

• Now you have Yandex.Transport online on a computer in the BlueStacks app

• City selection and other settings in the upper right corner

• With this application, you can go to the bus stop, shortly before the arrival of the passing transport, calculate the time of arrival at the right place, without tormenting people with questions.

The service is being finalized and in connection with these several unresolved points:

• To date, not all cities are connected (listed above).
• Even if the city is present in Yandex.Transport maps, this does not mean that all routes are tracked there, due to the ignorance or unwillingness of transport companies to participate in this online tracking program.

But it should be noted that the idea is quite serious and it is necessary to collect and provide for use information that is constantly changing, with the expectation that not all transport companies are easy to cooperate and it is necessary to make great efforts and time to this, as well as fix everything errors in the operation of this system.