If you commute by mass transportation in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut tri-state region you can use the Dadnab service to help plan your trips. Users can send a text message with an origin and destination to ‘tri@dadnab.com’, and just seconds later get a text message back detailing optimal routes and travel times, and includes which buses, trains and even ferries to take. The service uses scheduled information from a coalition of 16 transit and public safety agencies
“Prior to creating the Dadnab service, it was hard for me to use public transportation on the go; I had trouble memorizing the exact times, routes and stops for my trips,” says site founder and operator Roger L. Cauvin. “Now I just send a text message and receive an itinerary on my phone.”
Dadnab also serves Austin, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle. Maybe a Los Angeles version could just say, “sit in endless traffic.”
Hi, just a quick correction of a typo. The story says, “Users can send a text message with an origin and destination to tri@dadnad.com . . . .” The e-mail address should be ‘tri@dadnab.com’.
Also, you can send texts to the following e-mail addresses to plan your trips in other regions:
austin@dadnab.com (Austin, TX)
bay@dadnab.com (SF Bay Area)
boston@dadnab.com (Boston, MA)
chicago@dadnab.com (Chicago, IL)
dallas@dadnab.com (Dallas, TX)
houston@dadnab.com (Houston, TX)
seattle@dadnab.com (Seattle, WA)
Keep up the good work, MobileCrunch!
Thanks for the information.
The operators of the London underground do a very similar thing… send a text with origin and destination to 60TFL (60 Transport for London) and you get a text reply….