Tech that predicts how crowded your Train or Bus ride will be ! | Catarakx

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Public transit is important for the common man, but, nobody desires to be stuck on a train or bus that is over-packed and that too on a sweltering hot summer day. In order to assist you to work out your journey with minimum hassles, however busy your ride would be, you will soon see predictions from the start of your journey to its destination in Google Maps. Google, by using its smart predictive algorithms, can judge how crowded your commute would be, by using the knowledge from previous rides to predict how packed a bus, train or subway can be.

Starting today, this feature would be rolled out in Eighteen cities, in and around the UK: 
London, Birmingham, Reading, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff, Leeds, Bristol, Coventry, Liverpool, Sheffield, Brighton, Southampton, Nottingham, 
Newcastle, Crawley, and Oxford. 

Google plans to simultaneously roll out these predictions to virtually two hundred cities worldwide on Android and iOS-enabled devices.



Meanwhile, Google Maps will begin showing live delay information for buses in places where native transit agencies do not already offer that knowledge to the general public. Google quoted in a blog-post, that the app can provide details on whether or not your bus is late, how long you might be expected to wait for the transport to arrive and more-accurate predictions on travel times supported traffic conditions. 

Google Maps also will show you wherever the delays areas are, thus letting you plan your journey ahead. This would in-turn help you to provide people your accurate arrival time or to plan a different route for your journey.