Integration with alerts from your transit provider
In our continuing effort to make Clever Commute as effective and helpful as possible, we added alerts from your provider into The Inside Track application. For example, NJ Transit riders can save a trip to njtransit.com by simply clicking on the red gears icon…and following the link to Alerts From NJT. […] Read More
Inside Track – An unsolicited testimonial
As a commuter and entrepreneur, I love getting e-mails like this one: Hi Conductor Josh, Here is a true story from tonight: I left my office building and saw a friend from my town. Me: Hey, did you see that the trains are delayed 30 mins to an hour? Friend: No, I was in meetings. Where […] Read More
Tips for Metro North riders week of May 20, 2013
Earlier today, we published a posting of web resources for Metro North riders. In addition to that, here is some additional info Remember our zen: Share [information]…don’t ask [for it]. For those of you who are new to Clever Commute, please check out our best practices. We have 20,00+people in our network…so stepping in and asking […] Read More
Top web resources for Metro North New Haven riders
There is a lot of great information out there regarding the overall MNR experience…and we hope to cover those in a future blog post. But for now, we wanted to highlight the ones which will help in the aftermath of the May 17 derailment. Please send us any others you have (via the Contact Us […] Read More
Metro North Derailment
Tonight, a Metro North train derailed near Fairfield. The cronology below shows what information was shared…and by whom. The blue timestamps show the info that Metro North shared via their e-mail alerting system The red timestamps show data that was created and shared via the Clever Commute network of passengers on the New haven line […] Read More
How NJT riders can beat the crowds at NY Penn
Clever Commute maintains a database of track number history for each train. We make that information available to our members via pie charts and tables. [Click on pictures to enlarge] When the history numbers are used in combination with the current conditions at Penn Station, our members have a HUGE advantage over everyone else. You […] Read More
Inside Track: We can show you WHERE your NJT train is
A picture is worth a thousand words…and here are two really amazing ones. What you see below is the main view of the morning view of our NJ Transit departure board. First, let’s look at two key things about the departureboard #1 – We recommend that you keep this value set to Auto …so that […] Read More
An exciting new version of The Inside Track
As you may have seen, we recently rolled our a slew of enhancements to The Inside Track. We’ve been getting some questions about how it works…so we are updating this posting…and adding a picture (there will be more pictures): 1. Set your primary and secondary line via your profile…and you get these new choices 2. […] Read More
Clever Commute’s on-time performance metrics
Historically, train on-time performance metrics have two flaws: They are self-reported (e.g., no independent verification) They use a non-neutral methodology (e.g., one which favors the transit providers) Clever Commute will address these issues via a new initiative: On-time metrics which are generated by the commuters on the trains. Phase 1 will capture / measure performance […] Read More