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Today is Thursday, May 17th, 2012
TCAT, Inc (Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit, Inc.) is a not-for-profit corporation that provides public transportation for Tompkins County New York and portions of Tioga county.
TCAT News
TCAT Federal Grant Notice May 7, 2012
May 5, 2012
Comments on the proposed projects are invited from the general public. Human service agencies involved in providing client transportation are encouraged to obtain copies of the grant applications....
TCAT's UAW Employees Ratify Contract 3-1
March 3, 2012
New contract includes modest wage increases.
Pam Mackesey heads TCAT Board in 2012
January 1, 2012
The biggest priority will be tackling persistent budget shortfalls.
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About Mobile Apps
About Google Transit and Mobile Apps: A Work in Progress at TCAT
TCAT, Inc. gets many requests from its valued passengers to
provide service data to Google Transit and to offer mobile app
capability and real time information.
We have long realized this would be a tremendous benefit for our passengers and for TCAT's visibility as well. At present, we are working behind the scenes to assess our information technology and data management needs in several areas. When our study is complete, we hope to implement a system that can export service data in GTFS format for Google Transit. This would enable smartphone apps and other third party technologies to easily convey our transit data, including real time service information to alert passengers about such things as weather related or sudden traffic delays.
The reason that TCAT does not have this technology is not because of a lack of interest or lack of willing developers, but rather from the lack of the necessary scheduling data and available bus tracking data upon which such applications depend. TCAT currently maintains service related data manually, and a robust, automated data management and generation system would need to be in place before we could embark on projects that rely on large amounts of accurate, real-time information.
To that end, the current IT and data management needs study will specifically identify these needs and implement appropriate solutions. Once these steps have been taken, we will be in a position to develop these popular and useful tools for our passengers, and we very much look forward to doing so!
Alerts
Updated Mon, May. 14
2012 Summer Service
TCAT's summer service will be in effect from Sun., May 20‑ Sun., Aug. 11.
Changes are as follows:
Route 11 Late‑night service is
every 60 minutes instead of every 30 minutes. Last trip from
Green Street
Station to Ithaca College departs at 1:30 a.m.
Route 14 All Lehman Alternative
School trips will now be served on Chestnut St.
Route 20 Outbound express zone
moved from State St. to Seneca St. Express stops at Seneca
Street Station;
Seneca St. @ Albany St. (Shortstop Deli); and Seneca @ Fulton (Greenstar
Natural Foods
Market).
Route 22 From Mon., June 25‑ Fri., Aug
17 will provide
(weekdays only) service from Green
Street Station to points between
Cass Park and Taughannock Falls State Park. (Route will no
longer directly serve GIAC
due to very low demand).
Route 30 No service on weekend. Note: Route 70 offers
weekend service between the Commons and Shops at Ithaca Mall.
Route 31 No 10:40 p.m. trip from Green Street Station.
Route 32 Convenient Care service will be "demand drop‑off
only." (Alert bus operator if you want to be dropped off). Note: Route 31
offers regular service to Convenient Care.
Route 36 Select service through Fall Creek moved from
Tioga St. to Cayuga St.
Route 41 Slight timing adjustments on fixed route
(non‑demand‑and‑response) portion only.
Route 43 No express service to Varna. Note: Routes
40, 43‑Local and 53 serve Varna.
Route 65 Inbound non‑Cornell trips extended to Seneca
@ Commons. Saturday outbound trips now begin at Green Street Station.
Routes 74/75 Select service through Fall Creek moved from Tioga St. to Cayuga St.
Route 83 No service.
Route 92 No service.
Route 93 No Sunday service.