Google Transit Coming To New York Metropolitan Area


Google May Start New York Transit Guide to Boost Ads from Bloomberg reports that Google Transit will soon support the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area.

Currently Google Transit covers about 15 U.S. cities including Burbank, Humboldt County, Orange County, San Diego, Tampa, Honolulu, Duluth, Las Vegas Monorail, Reno, Eugene, Portland, Pittsburgh, Austin, Dallas and Seattle. Two of New York’s largest transit companies, New Jersey Transit and the MTA have both confirmed working with Google to provide maps and schedules to Google.

Greg Sterling was quoted when asked about the potential ad revenue Google can earn from such a program.

Google probably got about $500 million in sales last year from local ads, or about 8 percent of its U.S. revenue of $6 billion, said Greg Sterling, an analyst at Sterling Market Intelligence in San Francisco.



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ONE COMMENT ON Google Transit Coming To New York Metropolitan Area

gary price,

From a driving standpoint, it’s one thing to read the traffic on a map, another thing to see it.

For NYC you can visit:
http://nyctmc.org/
and see live cams in all 5 boroughs. They even offer a version of the site for mobile.
http://service.nyctmc.org/mobile/

Trafficland.com aggregates cameras from throughout the U.S., Denmark, UK, New Zealand, and Canada. New York metro is included.
See:
http://www.trafficland.com/#city/NYC

See Also: Real Time Alerts for NJ-NYC PATH Trains
http://www.paalerts.com/recentalerts.aspx

See Also: Trips123.com: Real Time Traffic and Transit for Parts of NY, NJ, and CT. Uses Google Mpas.
http://www.trips123.com/

See Also: New Jersey Transit Advisories
http://www.njtransit.com/sa/sa_servlet.srv?hdnPageAction=TravelAlertsTo

See Also: MTA Transit Advisories
http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/mta/advisories.htm

Need help with public transit routes (global), check out:
http://imetro.nanika.net/
over 250 cities available. Some with maps including the very cool i-Métro line maps.

Mobile Version
http://i-metro.mobi/

Of course, Amtrak plays a big role in NYC and all along the eastern corridor. This database provides real time train info as in the train is running x minutes late/early.
Enter train/time info, select train, receive info.
http://tickets.amtrak.com/itd/amtrak/TrainStatusSearch

Finally, personalized, interactive voice response traffic info (national).
1-866-MY-TRAFC




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