Category: Web apps
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Website accessibility improvements
Over the last couple of months, we’ve been releasing updates to Passenger websites that are designed to help improve their accessibility. Improving accessibility benefits all website users, both with and without disabilities, by ensuring everything is easy to see and understand. As an operator, this will also be important if you are looking to apply…
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Improved Passenger website security
We’ve standardised our default Cloudflare security configuration for Passenger websites to ensure high availability and security. This change only affects Passenger websites that use Cloudflare. Passenger websites are largely protected against serious attacks by the hardened security model of Passenger systems. We further use Cloudflare where possible to add an additional layer of security by…
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Additional links from Stops on web
We’ve now added additional links when viewing a Stop page. When viewing the Stop page, we now supply links to the Journey Planner and Track Vehicles pages. This is a change that will help users find their way around to other areas of the application. It’ll also help search engines pick up more options for…
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Vehicle livery colours for web and apps
We’re rolling out vehicle livery colours for the web, iOS and Android. This update adds two livery colours to the vehicle illustrations, displayed in the additional vehicle information when a user tracks them in real time. Combined with information such as the vehicle type and vehicle name, it will help give users the confidence they…
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Detailed stop information (and capacity) on Route Map
Users can now see detailed information about a stop by tapping it on the Route Map. Tapping on a stop shows a detailed information dialog, providing links to Departures, Journey Planning, and Track Vehicles, where our Live Bus tracking functionality is enabled. It also shows any active service updates. Additionally, we’re bringing crowdsourced stop information…
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Vehicle types and names on the web
We’ve released a number of updates to the web that incorporate the latest updates from mobile, as well as adding some new features. Vehicle names The vehicle information header now incorporates the line colour – designed to help make it clearer which line this vehicle is running on. Above the vehicle image, we show the…
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Coverage zones added to websites
Following the addition of coverage zones to mobile apps, this feature is now also available on Passenger websites. This will help give users confidence when purchasing tickets by providing them more information about where the ticket will be valid. If it hasn’t been added already, this coverage information can be input directly into Passenger Cloud.…
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How busy is the bus stop? – websites
Waiting at a stop is an important part of a bus journey. Keeping a safe distance from other passengers before boarding the bus is just as important as during the journey itself Over the coming days we’ll be extending our new crowdsourced data functionality to bus stops on all Passenger websites. Initially this will be…
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Enhanced Vehicle Information with passenger occupancy from crowdsourced and ETM data – websites
Our new Enhanced Vehicle Information has been rolling out over the last week to Passenger websites with Live Buses enabled. It has been designed to help users to understand more about the bus that’s on its way, by providing them with more information than has previously been available to them. This includes payment options accepted…
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More control for how operator names are displayed
Passenger Cloud has a new feature which allows you to control how the name of an operator is displayed through your websites and apps. Several Passenger websites and apps display which operators run the service on line lists. An example of this is the Robin Hood Network covering Nottingham. These names come from a TransXChange…