Category: Web apps
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Coronavirus – Communication via websites and apps
Reviewing the evolving situation regarding COVID-19, and anticipating changes to your normal operations, we are putting measures in place to help you keep your customers informed. There are a number of actions you may wish to consider implementing, intended to help your customers quickly find the information they need. Add a “Coronavirus update” page to…
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Improved asset download buttons
We’ve made improvements to download buttons for line assets on Timetable pages. Improved labels On websites where linked lines are displayed as one page, we will show asset downloads with a title that includes every linked line. On websites where linked lines are displayed on separate pages, the label remains the same and displays the…
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Active Travel on web
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…
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Contextual service updates for stops on web
We’ve added service update alerts to the Explore map and Stop Departure pages, bringing websites in line with Passenger apps. Users can now see if there are any alerts affecting a stop or the lines that serve it. They can click through to see full details of all the alerts affecting a stop.
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Improvements to the Journey Planner on web
We’ve made improvements to our Journey Planner on web. Past JourneysIf a user accidentally makes a search for a journey in the past, we’ll notify them and include a link to bring them to the present time. Arrive byUsers on the web can now choose to make a journey plan to arrive by a certain…
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Informing users if they’re viewing a timetable in the past
If a user is viewing a timetable for a date in the past, we now show a banner that informs them. We also provide a button to ‘View today’s timetable’.
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Map Style Update
We’re upgrading the map styling engine that we use on the web. The benefits of this change include: A more refined and modern map style Sharp and focused map styles at any scale on any size device In addition to this, once the rollout has been completed we will be able to reduce the visual…
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Enhanced Timetables for the Web
We are preparing a small update for Timetables, aimed at improving the user experience when accessing these on the web. This will be rolled out over the next few weeks. This affects: Desktop users on Passenger websites. Any user with JavaScript disabled on their desktop browser. This includes the following improvements: Upgraded controls on desktop…
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Favourites on the web, including accounts and syncing
In December we published our release notes for Humphrey on mobile, which included Favourites on the web. These release notes go into more detail for the features involved and our rollout plan for them. Saving Favourites Favourites allows users to save Stops, Routes and Journey Plans for easy access later. By default these Favourites are stored locally…
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Improvements to feature pages on the web
New page layouts In 2018 we updated feature pages to make the most of large imagery with the use of a large image banner stretching the full width of the browser window, when viewing from a desktop. This image followed the 2:1 image ratio we had established across websites. However, when used full width it…