What is NextRide?
NextRide is BC Transit’s technology service where riders can use smart mobile devices and desktop applications to see the real-time update of their bus along its route and its predicted arrival time at an identified stop, as well as calling out stops on bus both visually and audibly.
How can customers use NextRide?
Customers wanting to plan their trip are encouraged to use trip planning apps including the Transit App (mobile only), Google Maps, their own favourite trip planning app or refer to the rider’s guide. BC Transit’s website also helps guide you to some of these tools. NextRide technology is available in 61 transit systems.
What are the benefits of NextRide?
NextRide uses state-of-the-art technology that passes real-time information about current bus locations, schedules, and other valuable information that allow riders to plan their trip with more efficiency.
NextRide also provides improvements to accessibility with automatic voice annunciators that call out upcoming stops, and new digital full-colour passenger information displays inside some of the buses that offer trip information to passengers including multiple upcoming stops, current route, and service alerts.
In addition to the benefits to our riders from above, NextRide technology also helps BC Transit and its partners to better direct buses for schedule reliability, manage on-road incidents more effectively and to push out alerts more readily to customers in the case of detours, accidents or other events that may delay regular routing.
