Urban Engines is a company that is helping people navigate the real world as effectively as the digital one. Their team has built products and services that scale to billions of users and petabytes of data. Their customers are cities, commuters, and companies. Urban Engines improves urban mobility- saving everyone time in transit – by using information from the internet of moving things. The mobile application has single and mixed modes for directions to your favorite places, instant orientation and seamless online and offline access. They have biking, driving, walking, transit, or combinations.
The app overlay tells you how commuters use city transportation systems to make transit planning, operations, and reporting easier. From the commuter view you can hold up your phone for an ‘x-ray’ view of where transit stops are nearby. There is also real-time data, events on the way, and historical on-time percentages – presented simply so you’re always good to go. Urban Engines is available in over 50 cities in the US.
Transportation is very important to life. Cities are dense so people can easily access other stores, their job, family, and more. Transportation can cause problems in daily life that no one wants to run into, and show the bad side of cities. Urban Engines allows city-goers to use transportation easily and smoothly.
Written by Elise Mazur, 7/30/2015