October 26, 2019 – The free Android app CityBus Rijeka is now available to residents and visitors of the city.
HRTurizam writes that using the available data through the open data portal of the City of Rijeka, Zadar company Smart Solutions came to the idea that after developing the mobile application for the City of Zadar, they would implement the same for Rijeka. This app is a unique guide to public transport in the entire Primorje-Gorski Kotar County. It is currently available for free download through the Google Play Store.
The application displays marked bus stops in the Primorje-Gorski Kotar County area, information about travel distances and the next 3 bus lines arriving, the routes of all city and suburban Autotrolej bus lines, a timetable of all city, suburban and night Autotrolej bus lines with the desired date showing all transit stops and estimated arrival times, an overview of all city, suburban and nightAutotrolej bus lines with associated stops, a view of important marked taxi stops in Rijeka and the parking zones in Rijeka with information about payment.You can also find a display of information on vacant spaces in closed parking lots, the latest information regarding urban public transport in Primorje-Gorski Kotar County, and locations where you can purchase bus maps with working hours. The application is available in several languages, and in addition to Croatian, users can choose English, Italian, German and Hungarian.
The idea for the CityBus Zadar app originated at the Google I / O Extended Hackathon held in mid-May 2017 in Zadar. After more than two years of running the application in the Zadar County area, it has reached almost 10,000 downloads, but there has been a lack of crucial support from local institutions to move on. Because of this, Smart Solutions Zadar decided to transfer the existing system to other cities within the Republic of Croatia. Given the availability of data, they opted for Rijeka, although several similar applications have already been developed in the city and county. The app itself is intended as a guide to public transport for citizens and tourists throughout Primorje-Gorski Kotar County.
Data on routes and marked stops are taken from the open data portal of the City of Rijeka and will be updated and modified if any deficiencies are noticed. The desire is to implement this application in other cities in Croatia. It also aims to encourage other market players to become actively involved in the development and implementation of similar solutions.
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