The Waymap team is really excited that our first project in Austin, Texas is now live.

We’re working with CapMetro – Austin’s regional public transportation provider – to make the city even more accessible, by navigating users to and from bus stops and other destinations.

Waymap’s unique app now covers three key bus routes in Austin  – 1, 300 and 801 – including more than eighty bus stops, plus Downtown station and Crestview station.

What’s new about this extensive project is that it’s Waymap’s first deployment to focus primarily on bus routes. It’s now helping all users – but particularly blind and visually-impaired users – to make the most of the city’s bus network.

Also, much of the area covered by Waymap in Austin is outdoors – 775 million square feet, which is bigger than Manhattan!

All this means that it’s now easier for people in Austin to find their chosen bus stop using Waymap, and, once they’ve made their bus journey, to follow Waymap’s precise instructions to navigate on foot or wheel to their final destination.

The app also shows live information about bus routes and arrival times allowing for end-to-end journey planning.

For Waymap, our close and careful work with our friends at CapMetro has surfaced new insights into how users like to use our app on city streets, to cross roads at pedestrian crossings, and to locate building entrances as well as bus stops.

Our go-live in Austin follows our go-live earlier this year across the whole of Washington DC’s public transportation system.

We have new projects going live soon on major public transportation networks around the world, and in large shopping malls, hospitals and other public buildings – watch this space.

And of course, a big thanks to the team at CapMetro, working with them has been an absolute pleasure – we’re looking forward to increasing our presence in Austin soon.