Trip planning on Android phone turned off for now

Re:Trip planning on Android phone turned off for now by sundayedition on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @12:44AM (#21449966)

2.3M trips / 7300 users / 30 days is more than 10 trips per day.

When I took the bus in DC, each trip was 45-75 minutes long (12 mile route, during peak traffic) not counting wait times. Zero transfers.

Who has time for 10 bus trips, plus wait times, per day?

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Re:Trip planning on Android phone turned off for now by jrockway on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @01:02AM (#21450055)

It says that's how many trips were "planned", not taken.

It's an interesting UI study to see how many trips were planned vs. taken, though. When I use Google Maps to plan a trip, the leave/arrive times are usually wrong, so I have to adjust those. It's kind of a pain to type in a time, so I hit the "+ 30 minutes" button a bunch of times until I get to the desired time. So if this is a trip for 6 hours later today, that's going to be 12 trips planned vs. 1 taken.

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Re:Trip planning on Android phone turned off for now by mritun on Tuesday November 05, 2019 @12:59AM (#21450041)

“Planned” vs “taken”.

I usually plan trips through several different routes when I don’t know the route, and maybe take one trip. I don’t need an app to plan routes for my daily commute.

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