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.
Next also makes riding easier for everyone with onboard announcements and digital displays that show upcoming stops both visually and audibly.
How to use NextRide
Customers can use a variety of tools to play their trip and track their bus, including:
- Transit App (mobile only)
- Google Maps
- Your favourite trip planning app
- BC Transit’s Rider’s Guide
NextRide technology is available in 61 transit systems across B.C., helping our customers plan and travel with confidence.
What are the benefits of NextRide?
NextRide helps our customers plan their trip more efficiently. With real-time updates, riders can:
- See their bus’s current location
- Get accurate arrival times
- Plan transfers more easily
NextRide also improves accessibility with:
- Automatic voice annunciators that call out upcoming stops
- Digital full-colour interior screens inside some of the buses that display upcoming stops, current route, and service alerts.
Behind the scenes, NextRide helps BC Transit and our local partners:
- Share alerts more quickly to customers in the case of detours, accidents or other events that may delay regular routing.
- Improve schedule reliability
- Manage on-road incidents more effectively
