Red Bike joins Metro App, syncing bikers to bus routes - Cincinnati CityBeat
1mon 10d ago by lemmy.world/u/curve in cincinnati from www.citybeat.com
Kind of nice to have them in one app. Not a huge leap but nice.
Is it true that an active Metro app user has to be riding a bus in order for the app to know where that bus is on a map?
I haven’t ridden the metro in a while, but the last time I tried, the app had no clue where the bus even was, and I ended up missing it
Nope. AFAIK most (or all?) buses now (though I only ride a few lines) have GPS so they have updates but they are periodic (every 2 mins or so) so you'll see a location and it'll start a timer with how long ago that point was sent (so 30s on you can guess that the bus is at its next stop, etc.)
If a rider does use GO (tracks the bus location on the rider's phone) while on board then the location is precise the entire trip (be it one rider or multiple) throughout their rides to their stop. So you'll see the exact location as it travels.