Public Bus Locator

   Since gas prices are becoming more and more expensive more people nowadays are taking public transportation [buses] to get to where they need or want to be. It’s nice that people are using public bus as a way of transportation because that would mean that there’s less pollution being product; however at times the buses are not always very convenient.

As a resident of New York City, I take the public bus quite often because (1) it is difficult trying to find parking in the City and (2) gas is expensive. Sometimes buses would arrive to the bus stop early and leave early or they would arrive to the bus stop late, even though there is a schedule of when the bus is supposed to arrive they still don’t always get there on time. And also being in Syracuse sometimes the buses going to and from places, like downtown or to the mall, the bus would sometime be late. And the buses going to South and East Campus, it’s nice that they wait at the College Place bus stop till the time that they are schedule to arrive if they get there early however that’s the only stop that they would stop at for a long time, they don’t do it for all the bus stops. So it makes it difficult to try and catch these buses at other bus stops because you never know if they came early and is waiting at College Place.

So my entrepreneurial idea is to create an app that allows people to know when the buses are coming [the schedule] and where the buses are at [location on map] as they are waiting at the bus stop for the bus to arrive. There are similar apps out there that allow people to know when the bus will arrive but those only shows the expected time that they are supposed to arrive [schedule] which doesn’t mean that they will actually get there at that exact time. With this app, it can allow people to see when the next bus is coming and/or how far the bus is away from the bus stop.

With this app, people can check how far the bus is from the bus stop so that they can calculate when they should leave the house or when they should go catch the bus. They wouldn’t have to wait at the bus stop for a long time, especially in the winter time when it’s freezing cold out. With this app in the blazing hot summer or freezing cold winner, it can allow people to see and catch the bus on time without a sweat or being turned into a postictal.