{"id":468,"date":"2016-04-08T19:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2016\/04\/08\/trend-local-governments-create-own-ride-share-like-apps-6-key-informed-intel\/"},"modified":"2016-04-08T19:01:00","modified_gmt":"2016-04-08T19:01:00","slug":"trend-local-governments-create-own-ride-share-like-apps-6-key-informed-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/trend-local-governments-create-own-ride-share-like-apps-6-key-informed-intel\/","title":{"rendered":"Trend: Local Governments Create Own Ride Share Like Apps. 6 Key Informed Intel."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why are transit apps a growing trend with local governments?<\/strong>\u00a0Surgning populations are straining roads<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did Denver, CO contract with a company to create its app?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, it contracted with Xerox<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does the Denver Transit App do?<\/strong>It allows a person to compare the time it will take to travel in various transportation modes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What types of transit information does the Denver app contain?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>bike-share stations<\/li>\n<li>nearby Lyft drivers<\/li>\n<li>close Car2Go vehicles<\/li>\n<li>open parking spaces<\/li>\n<li>mass transit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Does it allow users to sort their transit options?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, by cheapest &amp; by greenest routes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Is there a data benefit for local governments?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Denver will have better data on user behavior<\/li>\n<li>Better data on transportation system\u00a0inefficiencies<\/li>\n<li>Could ultimately alert\u00a0regular drivers that an alternate mode\u00a0of transportation would be quicker on a day when a car crash causes traffic backups<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/topics\/transportation-infrastructure\/gov-cities-apps-xerox-denver-transportation.html?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Act-On+Software&amp;utm_content=email&amp;utm_campaign=Cities%20Create%20Their%20Own%2C%20Greener%20Transit%20Apps&amp;utm_term=Cities%20Create%20Their%20Own%2C%20Greener%20Transit%20Apps\">Governing |\u00a0Cities Create Their Own, Greener Transit Apps<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why are transit apps a growing trend with local governments?<\/strong>\u00a0Surgning populations are straining roads<\/p>\n<p><strong>Did Denver, CO contract with a company to create its app?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, it contracted with Xerox<\/p>\n<p><strong>What does the Denver Transit App do?<\/strong>It allows a person to compare the time it will take to travel in various transportation modes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>What types of transit information does the Denver app contain?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>bike-share stations<\/li>\n<li>nearby Lyft drivers<\/li>\n<li>close Car2Go vehicles<\/li>\n<li>open parking spaces<\/li>\n<li>mass transit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Does&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,12,30,26,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-security","category-local","category-local-government","category-regulatory-trend","category-sharing-economy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}