From The Big Money, from Slate
Finally, the Bay Area Has a Useful Public Transit App
By Kevin Kelleher
Unbelievably, the Bay Area—home to Apple (AAPL), Google (GOOG), and countless app developers—has a shortage of useful apps to navigate the area's public transportation system....
UC Berkeley [School of Information] student Ljuba Miljkovic was so unhappy about the state of transit apps in the Bay Area that he made his own. Transporter, available on the iTunes App Store, combines schedules of buses, Muni trains, and BART with real-time information of their arrivals in a simple, elegant, and intuitive interface. Once on board, the app will estimate your arrival time.
And unlike most of its inferior peers, Transporter is free. Miljkovic made the app for his master's project at Berkeley. It works so well, it could be a model for public-transit apps in other cities.