The best applications to use transport around the city
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Smartphone applications also reached the field of urban traffic a few years ago. If the first experiences were using Google Maps as a GPS, the new apps have focused more on us as passengers than as drivers From applications like Uber or Cabify, which make from a taxi through an app with a closed price and paid by card - it is not the responsibility of this article to assess the conditions of your business model - to others that also offer us faster and cheaper routes including suburban trains, buses urban or metroAll with the aim that through a couple of clicks with the finger we have solved what will be the best way to get from one point of the city to another. We review some of the most efficient apps.
Citymapper
Citymapper for Android is a good starting point for urban transport applications. It offers support for most of the means we can take in a city, which includes taxis, subways, trains, ferries, taxis and even Uber It also gives us timetables departure times, alerts, turn-by-turn directions, and offline maps in some areas. At the moment, it covers only Madrid and Barcelona and a dozen more cities in Europe - plus some twenty in the United States and Canada and some in Asia and Australia. Those interested can vote so that their areas end up being covered.Although it still needs to be improved, especially when it comes to covering other large Spanish cities such as Seville, Valencia or Bilbao, it is a rather interesting app concept that brings together all urban transport.
Moovit
Moovit is another of the recently popular applications for moving around the city. Part with a clear advantage over Citymapper, and that is that it covers 35 cities in Spain - some two thousand in the rest of the world-. That makes it the transport application that is available in more cities in our country. It does not offer routes by itself, however, we can use it to find train schedules, bus schedules, metro schedules, trams and more. Then we can use that information to plan the quickest and cheapest way to get to our destination.It even has unique elements like bike sharing for those days when we want to ride. The opinions of Moovit for Android are getting better and better, so we will have to be attentive to new improvements.
Uber
Uber is the giant of transportation apps. It was not the first, but it was the one that has established itself in a large part of the planet with the most success and strength. The service covers more than 500 cities around the world, although only three in Spain: Madrid, Barcelona and Malaga; Yes, it expands quite quickly. It features the usual items; we add our location and we can greet an Uber through the same app. Of course, we can also pay through the app, or rate your drivers Although the service generally works as expected, sometimes the fleets stay small and We cannot count on a car for our trip.Its convenience of closed price and without exchange of money between the driver and us is compensated with a price normally somewhat higher than those of the taxis of the same cities.
Cabify
Cabify is the Spanish version of Uber. The functions and services of the app are practically a copy of those offered by the all-powerful Californian company. Even the physical service is almost identical. We will not have to exchange money with the Cabify driver because we will pay by card with the app, the price is closed and, yes, it is based in twice as many cities as Uber in our country: specifically in Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Alicante and Malaga Also as in the comparison with Uber, the prices tend to be somewhat above the normal rates of taxis in those same cities, but their service is usually be quite punctual and efficient.
Applications of local transport companies
To be fair, we have to say that in our country, many of the applications of local transport companies work quite well We have I have tried several, such as the Tussam in Seville - urban buses - and the route calculations or waiting times are quite reliable, as we have also seen this reliability in the Madrid metro. Also from the capital, it seemed to us that for transport belonging to the city council (EMT), the app needs to improve, especially in the calculation of times, which is often inaccurate and on others that information is down.
