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Transit: Pace's Trip Planning App

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Plan your trip, track your ride in real time and more, with the Transit app!

The Transit mobile app provides real-time public transit data in more than 300 metropolitan areas around the world. Pace launched its partnership with Transit in November 2022, and Transit is now Pace's recommended trip planning app. It offers features that no other app does—most importantly, showing Pace's flexible, reservation-based transit options in trip plan results. It also has more accurate real-time departure predictions and crowding information to show passengers how full buses may be based on recent ridership.

Download the app here from the App Store or Google Play. 

On Demand and VanGo are now in the Transit app

The Transit app does what no other trip-planning app can do, which is to offer trip plan results that include our Pace On Demand service. Those reservation-based options offer service within certain zones at certain times of day, and rides need to be booked.

Transit's trip planner integrates these new additions together with results that include Pace's bus network, ride hailing, biking, walking. and more to give you the best possible trip!

Please note that Pace On Demand options will be displayed for trips planned in advance since that service can be booked up to seven days in advance and as little as ten minutes prior to pick-up time. Pace On Demand operates in ten suburban zones, is open to the general public, and costs just $2 per ride with your Ventra card/app or $2.25 cash. To learn more about the Pace On Demand service, click here. 

Additionally, the pickup points for Pace's VanGo services are also shown in the Transit app's mapping feature. VanGo enables a registered user to reserve a Pace van for trips inside four suburban zones. To learn more about VanGo, click here.

Pace's ADA Paratransit customers can now manage their trips from their mobile phone using the TripCheck app, via Transit. Pace Paratransit is now shown as an option in the Transit app which allows Pace Paratransit customers to select and manage their bookings. To learn more, watch the Pace ADA Paratransit and the Transit app Tutorial video.

Watch this video to see how the Transit app works

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Transit app features

As a Pace rider, you'll automatically be offered the upgraded ("Royale") version of the app, which shows scheduled arrivals/departures for the whole day along with some fun app customization options.

•  Trip planning

•  Route information

•  Real time departures

•  Bus tracking

•  Service cancellation alerts

•  Crowding information

•  Notifications

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How to Plan Your Trip with the Transit App

When you first open the app, it uses your location to pinpoint transit options closest to you, including On Demand and VanGo services, if applicable.

The route display provides pertinent information such as the route name, direction, and stop name. Swipe left or right on a route to change direction.

TIP! Be sure to allow Transit to access your location data during the installation process. 

Transit has a built-in Trip Planner to give you easy-to-use directions:

  1. Enter a destination by tapping the green search bar on the home screen.
  2. Select your trip.
  3. If you want Transit to notify you exactly when you should start walking to catch the bus, launch the GO feature. GO provides step-by-step guidance for your whole trip.

GO will recommend when to leave to board, tell you how many stops until your destination, and push notifications when you are approaching and have arrived at your destination.

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