The company criticized these rules, which were first developed in 1831 for the carriages on the city streets, as “regulation for horses”:Ĭitymapper's smart bus pulled by a horse. More than eight seats, and you have to follow fixed routes and schedules that can take weeks to alter. Unfortunately, as Citymapper explained in a Tuesday Medium post, the Transport for London regulatory body that oversees the capital’s transit licensing has specific instructions about what counts as a bus. The London service builds on the lessons learned from the Smart Bus pop-up route, a May 2017 attempt to create a “bus of the future” that offered real-time vehicle tracking on the user’s phone, a large passenger-facing screen displaying a wealth of travel information, and even a set of USB ports for charging phones.
“It’s a bit like a bus because it has stops, it’s a bit like a cab because you book it and it has guaranteed seats, and it’s a bit like a metro because it has a network of roads,” Omid Ashtari, Citymapper president and head of business, told The Guardian in a Wednesday story. The journey planning app has taken the wraps off Smart Ride, which builds on its previous experiments to offer an eight-seater vehicle with a route that responds to user demand. Citymapper wants to make the bus work more like a taxi and free it from its restrictive routes.
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