Using GIS for Transit Analysis

Interwest provides GIS services to public agencies to analyze route changes and ridership. The City of Elk Grove is conducting a Comprehensive Transit Analysis that will be used to define the future of transit in the City.

Interwest GIS created an interactive web application using Esri's Web AppBuilder to show existing and proposed routes. As part of the analysis, the City's transit team developed a "service plan working paper" that included exhibits showing the recommended service improvements. This web app displays the information in an interactive form that allows the public and council members to review the proposals with more flexibility.

The web map also needed to display the relationship between routes and major employment centers, schools, and hospitals.

Interwest GIS worked with IBI, the City's Transit Consultant, to convert the proposed routes from Adobe Illustrator exhibits into a format that could be published to an ArcGIS Online web map. Special attention was placed on the zoom scale of the application to support the visual requirements of offsetting routes to display multiple features while ensuring it wasn't possible to zoom in far enough for the routes to appear not on the roadway.

Using GIS to Map Transit Routes on Mobile Phones

Check out the easy to use bus system at the City Elk Grove right from your cell phone or mobile device.

Interwest's GIS Team at the City of Elk Grove helped compile and process the bus routes and
stops, provided it to SacRT and they loaded it into a Google transit service.

To use it, click on Google Maps just as you would to get driving directions.  Then click the icon with the "bus". 
 

The transit will tell you the first stop and tell you to walk there.

Then after you take the bus it will tell you to walk to your final destination.



Need some help updating your transit routes for mobile devices?  Contact the GIS Team at Interwest Consulting Group to get started: http://www.interwestgrp.com/serv-gis.php