With millions of fitness trackers and smartwatches in use the length and breadth of the UK, people are more conscious than ever of reaching our recommended 10,000 daily steps.
For bus operators, ‘Active travel’ is a great opportunity to tap into this national narrative. Public transport has a huge part to play because every journey includes a walk to and from bus stops. Promoting the use of public transport, not only as environmentally friendly but as something that can also positively contribute to individual health and wellbeing, is a powerful message.
In our Evans app release we included step count information in relevant places in the app.
We’ve now released that functionality on operator websites.
Updated Explore view
The Explore view shows how long it will take to walk from the users’ current location or from a selected bus stop. The walking circles automatically update when you zoom in and out on the map.
Walking distances around a stop 
Walking distances around a dropped pin
Updated Journey Planner Results
Journey planner results and individual journey plans show the total step count for a journey plan and the number of steps for each walking leg of the journey plan.
Journey planner results with total step count 
Journey plan with step counts