

“Obviously if they were designing something purely in GIS, they can’t easily share that in a format that us folks who don’t use GIS can further manipulate.” “It allows for greater collaboration between GIS experts and non-GIS experts,” Gifford said. Casey Gifford, an mobility planner in King County, said she used the software to simulate what effects new ride-hailing pickup lanes near light-rail stations could have on transportation costs. King County, Washington, home to Seattle, and Miami-Dade County, Florida, are using a beta version of Via’s new “on-demand planning” software, which allows officials to aggregate data from different modes of transit into a single, interactive map. Two large metropolitan counties are testing new transit planning software from Via, a transportation technology firm, that enables transit planners and data specialists to work together to design new services.
