The steps:

• In the app, select the Premium option, and follow your app store’s instructions to subscribe
• After 30 days, Apple or Google will charge your funding source (and send you a confirmation)
• Within 5 days of being charged, send us (feedback [at] clevercommute -dot- com)
  • A copy of the confirmation
  • The mailing address for the gift card (e.g. your home or your office)
    Within 10 days, we’ll will send you the gift card via US mail

NOTES:

• This deal is route-specific (e.g., NJ Transit’s Northeast Corridor Line or LIRR Port Jefferson Branch)
• This offer is for new subscribers only

If you use the free service, please note that Monday was a great example of why you should check out our Premium service. 
Yes…a subscription costs a little extra (it likely adds less than 1% to your monthly commuting cost). 
But yesterday, our Premium users benefited many ways:

• they knew, in advance, about the buses that DeCamp canceled
  (Clever Commute uses a datafeed of DeCamp’s announcements…and we show that to Premium users)
• they know about an alert from Port Authority about delays going into NY
• they had full control of what info they received and how and when

Plus more! The best write-up I have for bus riders is here: clevercommute.com/bus 
But we’re adding features like crazy…so there is more than that…and more on the way. 

So please open the app and click on the main menu.
Select the “Premium” to start your 30-day free trial. 

For the amount of time we all spend commuting…and the low cost of Premium service…it’s time to at least explore a free month. 
You can cancel any time…and I’ll refund the unused part. 

How’s that? 

Here is a fairly typical example of how Clever Commute provides information that is faster and better than the actual transit providers.

This is a picture of the Recent Alerts feed in the app.

This happned on the morning of 18-Aug 2017
(click image to enlarge)

A big Thank You to everyone who has been pitching in on our fledgling metrics project.

It’s generating a ton of data…and we are actively organizing and analyzing it. Click to enlarge the report below which shows summarized info for some NJT AM trains.

Oh…and that last colum?
Red values mean that the month-to-date average actual arrival time is later than the scheduled arrival time.

Let’s just say that NJT’s claims of on-time performance are subject to some interpretation.

Here is a fairly typical example of how Clever Commute provides information that is faster and better than the actual transit providers.

This is a picture of the Recent Alerts feed in the app.

The train in question is the 6:29 PM train from Hoboken on 7-Aug 2017
(click image to enlarge)

TOP: From Clever Commute’s feed of actual NJT alerts. (yes, we offer these in the app, for free, during Summer Of Hell. Other times. Other times, it’s Premium feature)Note: Timestamp is 6:51 PM NJT says the train is up to 10 min late BOTTOM: A commuter, already shared the news. Note: Timestamp is At 6:41 PM user Bcretella shared the news that it was “T+12” …and we were still in the station. (I say “we” because I was on that train… and I was pleased to see Clever Commuters pitching in!)

Clever Commute is much more than a place to share Twitter-style messages.

This page shows examples of how we use technology to harvest actual train arrival and departure information.

Learn more at this link: clevercommute.com/metrics 

There are two tables below for the “Day 1” commute on NJ Transit

1. Morning (to NYC / Hoboken)
2. Evening (from NYC / Hoboken)

Here is the morning view. Scroll down to see the evening view 

Here is the evening view.

Enhancements

• Click-through on a message to see Hashtag, Speed and Station
• Metrics: Published list of NJT NYP trains to consider avoiding
• Metrics: New functionality to capture and report on train on-time performance
• New routes: ParkNRides for NJT
• New routes: LIRR Buses for SummerOfHell

Bug Fixes and Technical Updates

• LIRR MyTrains now shows proper list of pre-5:00 PM trains
• Upgraded processing for datafeeds such as PABT
• Refined Google Analytics implementation

Improvements

• Improved geolocation of alerts
• Real-time check for duplicate messages is faster and better

New Features

• Allow users to share metrics about their train
• New “Resources” Menu (Schedules, Transit Police, Customer Service, Best Practices, KOTW, Clever Blog)
• Use emoji for alert categories (on pick list and Recent Alerts)
• Add (1) station and (2) scheduled-arrival-at-station-time to Recent Alerts

[Coming in version 2.4.1]

We all want good commuter data…and we love it when the commuters pitch in and share it.

However, nobody wants to notified multiple times about the same issue.

When people press the Send button, our algorithm does a real-time check to see if the message appears to be a dupe.  If our technology determines a likelihood, the user sees this:

The sender has 3 choices  Send the message “as is” Edit the message (and then send it) Cancel the message