Tripview gives you an easy way to work out if you should run to the train station to get that train, or simply wait in the pub another fifteen minutes.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that I use Tripview every single day. The premise is pretty simple; it gives you the Sydney timetable for trains, buses and ferries, and lets you select journeys and (with the paid version) save them for later usage, so your most common trips are but a click or two away.
Timetables are updated regularly, and trackwork is noted onscreen so it’s easy to estimate quite how late you’re likely to be. Yes, it only covers Sydney, and sure, it sometimes misses trains — but that’s probably more Cityrail’s fault than Tripview’s. [Tripview]
Bilgin Ozkan
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 5:55 PMAnd for those of us in Melbourne, there’s Train Trapper – https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tincan.traintimes&hl=en
priya
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 6:36 PMThanks for the tip. I downloaded both this app and the Tram Hunter one by another developer – both look great and are just what I needed.
LC
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 7:21 PMThe developer released it recently for windows phone 7. Tripview was one of the apps on my iphone that stopped me converting to wp7, now I just got to wait till a phone I like comes out.
hisnamewasbobpoulson
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 8:30 PMCanberra has My Bus 2.0 https://market.android.com/details?id=com.action
TedJ
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 8:54 PMFor people living in Brisbane, the Translink Planner app is a must have.
https://market.android.com/details?id=translinkApp.Activities
Tristan
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 9:01 PMThis is a fantastic app and the developer is quick to respond to queries and fantastic with bug fixes!
Josh
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 9:10 PMGot the paid version, probably the best app I’ve bought. I wonder where they get their time table database from, because from what I can see there’s no easy way to get it (especially platform numbers, which is in the paid version and very helpful, especially when you don’t have much time)
Chris
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 9:44 PM“I wonder where they get their time table database from”
There is a link on the Cityrail website to apply for access to the data which is in a standard format, developed I believe by London Transport.
From what I undestand it was an early version of Tripview, or something similar, that NSW transport tried to have stopped. Their premise was that as the product had the same appearance of the station indicator boards yet did not use live data it might mislead commuters. To the credit of the transport minister in the previous government he told the department in no uncertain terms to stop wasting resources hindering those trying to improve things for THEIR customers and provide the information so those such as the Tripview team and others could help them improve their customers(CityRails’s) experience.
Scott
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 10:37 PMCityRail was receiving a lot of complaints when these apps were incorrect(thinking that it CityRail that was responsible for maintaining the app) so they are currently working on an way to share the dynamic timetable information with apps (like they use for the cityrail.info trip planner). Thing is, every time you launch the app it would need to download the latest info and apparently some people are not too keen on that.
Dan
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 at 11:55 PMI use Offi on Android, and found it very good. Works in all sorts of cities both Australian and O/S. Doesn’t cover all capitals, but it does Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, from memory. A bit of a learning curve, but a powerful tool.
Darrell
Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 7:15 PMScott, CityRail still gets complaints about these unoffical apps. Everybody should really just use the Transport Info app or use the mobile websites. If they don’t, the transport operators will have no reason to improve them.