TripGo in Mexico City

TripGo - Travel Smart

Planning your ride through the city is a whole lot easier with TripGo! You can choose the most efficient, fastest, or cheapest route with our real-time city transit app.

We’re the only app who offers you to mix your trips and combine public and private transport options! Starting by train but then need a cab? We’ll factor that in for you. Leaving on your bike and need a car share later? No problem for us. Tell us your preferences and we’ll present the best options for you.

With TripGo you can plan your route, check timetables and get live service alerts. One of our best features: Connect your calendar to get automatic trips & leave alerts.

We connect public transport (bus, train, ferry, tram, subway, metro, funicular) with private and other transport options such as taxi, Uber, shuttle services, car routes and car sharing, motorbike, cycle routes, bike sharing and walking. Don’t forget to sync TripGo with your calendar!

TripGo already works in 9 languages (English, Spanish, Italian, French, German, Dutch, Finnish, Traditional & Simplified Chinese).

How we built it

Our app is based on a multi-modal routing algorithm developed in Java, that combines public and private transport options and also considers the user preferences regarding time, money, environment and convenience.

We are already in near 100 cities all over the world, including Mexico City. We were already using the Mexico City GTFS data and the EcoBici real-time data, and therefore, suggesting mixed trips to our users, encouriging the use of public transport and man-powered means of transports.

For this challenge we have worked on incorporating to our list of suggested trips in Mexico City, the following:

BlaBlaCar carsharing trips, by using the v2 web service and suggesting possible published rides given the user requested trip,
Public transport ticket costs, to better inform the user about the expected cost of the trip,
Carrot shared cars pickups, by offering our users to pick up a car and drive.

These new features added to our app facilitate the use of car-sharing options to our users.

What's next for TripGo in Mexico City

We are working on including park and ride places to our system, whenever available, which will allow our app to suggest our users to drive to them, park their cars in there, and then travel to the city center on public transportation, therefore reducing urban traffic congestions.

Our app is also capable of delivering results in real-time: Up-to-the minute information on predicted departure/arrival times, GPS locations and service alerts for public transport. We plan to incorporate this feature for Mexico City as soon as a valid source of information becomes available.