And that includes current and future technologies like Uber and Lyft, bike-share, car-share programs.

“Most Americans - in fact nearly 80 percent - view public transit as the backbone. Transit agencies, like BART, ought to lead the conversation around multimodal travel, trip-planning, and ultimately - payment, said Darnell Grisby, director of Policy and Research Development with the American Public Transportation Association. The move by the transit system, which serves 48 stations across 121 miles of track and transports about 170,000 passengers a week, is in line with the direction taken by a number of other agencies to integrate public transit systems into the larger network, with transit serving as the backbone. “The trip planner supports that objective by showing how many different ways riders can get to BART.' “BART wants to make it as easy as possible for the public to access our stations,” Filippi added in an email. “One of the goals of our trip planner is to take the hassle out of commuting by allowing users the opportunity to take a complete look at their journey,” said Chris Filippi, a media spokesperson for BART. The multimodal trip-planning, developed by HaCon, a division of Siemens Mobility, will now consider biking, walking, car routes and current traffic conditions when calculating routes and travel times.

The Bay Area Rapid Transit system has released an upgraded trip-planning application that considers transit data from more than 30 transportation operators across nine counties in the San Francisco metro area, providing easy door-to-door travel.

Bart trip planner app