3 Hacks To Find The Best App For Finding Your Way Around Any City Easily

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Understanding the public transport system within your locale goes a long way in helping commuters move easier from one point to another. It’s always best to understand the system and structure of transport in your area, especially where you are not certain of the transport provisions and alternatives open to you as a commuter or as a tourist. Finding your way around any city doesn’t necessarily have to be a chore.

Choose an app that offers detailed information on easily accessible transport systems, trains, as well as taxi routes and bus schedules, within your selected city to help you decide what transport medium best suits you.

Best 10 Public Transportation Apps

You can get started by checking out the above. It was a timely solution during my tour in Sydney.

  1. Apps to Help You Learn About Public Transport in Your Vicinity

Whether you’re in the United States, Japan, France, England, or any part of the world, understanding in detail the public commuting/transit points around your vicinity goes a long way in ensuring that you’re plugged into the culture and history around you. If you have a healthy appetite for knowledge and are wondering how the transportation system was a century ago, you should select an app which offers you articles and essays which are easily downloadable in PDF or any other soft copy format, for accessible reading any and everywhere.

In reading up on statistics and facts about transport systems in your area, you could better understand the history and evolution of public transport in your city. Also, where you are big on health and sanitation and would rather use a means of public transport that is clean and properly sanitized, you should choose an app which offers a city-wide sanitation ranking of public transportation systems. This helps you make an informed choice on what transport medium best suits you.

2. Find the Best Transport Options, Their Advantages and Disadvantages

Every system of public transport has its inherent pros and cons. The trick is being able to find out what they are. If you seek a more personalized transport system, you should get an app thatwhich offers you updates on how to rent cars in your vicinity, while providing you with details on the advantages and disadvantages on automobiles to help you get the car most adequate for your needs. This could, however, be a more costly venture as opposed to public transport.

If your preferred transport method is taking a bus that shuttles between your home, school or office, choose an app that shows you the best bus-route from where you are to where you want to go. Ensure that the selected app has a bus tracker feature or an MTA bus time to help you track the location of the bus along a route.

Alternatively, if you’re second-guessing your preferred public transport route, an app which offers the advantage(s) of a route over the other(s) would serve you best. It is noteworthy, however, that irrespective of where you live, systems and methods of public transport may vary from one place to another, with all having inherent advantages and disadvantages. Therefore what should be foremost considered is the transport service best suited to your needs, lifestyle and more importantly your pocket.

3. Locate Your Preferred Transport Method With Search Tools

For those who regularly patronize public transport, it is common knowledge that no public transportation method is equally created. If your preference is the metro or tram as opposed to walking, you should choose an app that lets you check out terminals and transit points near you so you can have faster travel experience.

Transportation systems are as essential as they are subjective. In a highly evolving world, public transport services have evolved, from basically taking you from one place to another. Select an app that saves you time and offers you comfort and rest of mind, with features that allow you search for your destination by name, pre-order your preferred medium of transport to your destination and back, without interfering with your time or schedule.

Conclusion

Since you’re now more knowledgeable on how apps can make public transportation easier, you can get started by choosing an app that best suits your lifestyle from the apps we recommended above so you can begin getting around a lot more easily!

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Snifter. Tatiana Kukanova investigates a new app for finding drinking partners.

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A new app.

There’s a mobile application for drinking partners now available on both Android and iPhone platforms called Snifter. It’s name refers to the glass commonly served with a brandy and is colloquially used as a way of inviting someone out for a drink. Anyone up for snifter?

It uses the same software technology as Tinder, Facebook and Travel Adviser, like an amalgamation of all three into a handy application. Relying on GPS functionality, profile management to match matching suitable partners along with a helpful local pub listing and review. The app simply finds like-minded members in local areas and links them up via a profile matching message. From that point on, it’s up to the new friends to enjoy their time as they see fit.

When would it be useful?

For those with different work patterns to that of other friends or parents with the odd hour to spare but would rather share it with another, it could actually be of benefit for people needing a bit more sociability in their lives.
I decided to put it to the test on a close friend, Tatiana Kukanova. Tatiana is a mother and part time researcher at University of Arts, London who despite having a busy schedule, finds those odd times of the day when her child is at day care, her work assignments are done and her partner is still at work. ¨I have always loved the pub but have found it hard to find anyone to match my schedule to join me for pint she has mentioned on occasion.

The experience.

Tatiana creates a profile by answering basic questions on politics, cultural pursuits, education and career. Very quickly it starts to feel like a social cleansing experiment and makes her feel uneasy. ¨ I wouldn’t ask these things straight off when I meet a new friend ¨ she admits.
After a few hours, she receives a notification along with a proceeding message from another member asking her out for a pint. Happy that she can make that time and assured by short duration (only 45 mins) she headed for ´The Nags Head´ to meet her drinking partner.

Whilst enjoying a lager top with a packet of crisps, she found her buddy ( writer and cartoonist Ian Weisburg) to make for interesting and pleasant company.
That being said, she didn’t foresee the added complication of meeting random men for drinks in the day with some sense of judgement from her partner. ¨He´s not the jealous type but he did find the whole thing slightly weird¨.

On reflection Tatiana concedes that meeting women for social drinks might actually be better, although disliked the sexism that it implied. She felt it would make the whole thing more comfortable for herself and her partner.

Could it last?

From the brief experience Tatiana had, it would be interesting to see from a range of people who might benefit from such an app. The gut feeling is that it might be a guy thing, where there’s a sense of security to the situation. Rather depressingly woman are having to be so guarded around strangers and drinking.

The phrase ´Tinder for Boozers´ was bandied about the office when I mentioned this app. One can foresee where there’s drink and the unknowing of strangers, could lead unpredictably towards difficult circumstances.
Ultimately, perhaps people should get off their phones and strike up conversation naturally? I’m sure pretty soon you will know if that person is a suitable drinking buddy or not.

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