About Hop Aboard Web App
Hop Aboard is the culmination of many months' work by a leading web development company in Adelaide, Australia by the name of Iugo.
Iugo wanted to create a mobile web application that would work on most mobile phones that have a web browser and would fill the gap for those who don't have a specific public transport application installed.
The result is a well featured, scalable solution that uses up-to-date information provided by Adelaide Metro to allow anyone with a mobile browser to search for public transport that suits their individual needs.
The mobile website has been tested to work on iPhone; Android-OS phones; Windows Mobile phones and some late-model Nokia phones. It will also happily work on Google Chrome and Safari. Some features may be disabled for browsers that don't support all the features.
Release History
Current release: 1.2 on January 17, 2013
New features:
- Train timetables page now includes a link to the substitute bus services that are running while the Adelaide railway station is closed
- New alerts page to show service interruptions and other information
- Individual trips now show if they are wheelchair accessible on both the trip pages and favourites
Current release: 1.1 on November 14, 2012
New features:
- Trip length now displayed when departure/arrival points are selected
Previous release: 1.02 on June 8, 2011
New features:
- Favourites now include times for the next day. This is useful near midnight
Bugs fixed:
- Times after midnight missing from timetable pages
- Storing multiple copies of times when adding the same route and stops to favourites multiple times
Previous release: 1.01 on May 4, 2011
Bugs fixed:
- Error message on first visit to the site using an Android device
Previous release: 1.0 on March 18, 2011
New features:
- Timetable information for all bus, train and tram routes in South Australia run by Adelaide Metro
- Google Mapping of the route with each stop
- Create your own timetable - what your "get on" and "get off" stops are and how long the journey takes
- Ability to add your timetable to your "favourites" meaning next time, the information is there ready to be used
- Count-down to your next available bus/train/tram for your favourite routes
Bugs fixed:
- N/A
Known issues:
- Bus routes that change from one bus number to another may not have correct route times
Contact Us
Interested in finding out what's coming up next? Follow us on Twitter as @hop_aboard and via our Blog - http://blog.hopaboard.com.au/.
Do you have any ideas, suggestions or see where we could improve? Drop us a line - [email protected]
We'd love to hear from anyone with commercial requirements for mobile web development or similar as well. Please contact us on [email protected] and we'll get back to you ASAP.
Technology
This site is built using HTML5 components. This allows the data you choose as favourites to be stored on your phone instead of remotely. No other information is stored.
Other technologies used: developed using Google's GTFS data provided by Adelaide Metro; HTML5; CSS3; AJAX; JQuery; PHP; Sqlite & Smarty Template Engine. The HTML5 complies with web standards and as such, can be viewed on both mobile and desktop versions of browsers (some functions are limited depending on the browser).