Carris Metropolitana's timetables and routes are now available on Google Maps. In the Lisbon metropolitan area, Transportes Colectivos do Barreiro (TCB) is now the only operator absent from the world's largest map application.
The information from Carris Metropolitana is, since last week, available on Google Mapsone of the best known and most used navigation applications in the world. With the arrival of Carris Metropolitana to Google Maps, the Barreiro Collective Transports (TCB) are isolated as the only operator in the entire Lisbon metropolitan area (amL) that is outside this platform.
The availability of information from Carris Metropolitana happens more than six months after the start of operations on the South Bank e one month after the start-up on the North Shore. During this time, Carris Metropolitana's offer was, however, available on the platforms Moovit e CityMapperas well as on the official website of the service.
Meanwhile, the official data from Carris Metropolitana that feeds all these applications is now available, in open format and according to the GTFS standardin GitHub and in the Dados.gov, the Portuguese government's open data portal. This means that anyone can use this information for any purpose, whether for developing a new innovative application or for academic work, for example.
All but TCB
With Carris Metropolitana on Google Maps, it is now possible to search the public transport offer of almost all amL, fulfilling an old desire of many passengers: to have all the transport information in the same app, preferably already installed on your cell phone. This is only not yet fully possible because of the nine public transport operators operating in amL, there is still one absent from Google Maps: it is Transportes Colectivos do Barreiro (TCB), Barreiro's municipal bus operator. To know the routes and schedules of the TCB, you must go to the operator's siteapplication, install the application iOS/Android own, or use the Moovit or CityMapper platforms.
On Google Maps, it is already possible to consult more than 700 lines and 12 thousand stops of Carris Metropolitana, as well as all their schedules, in order to find the fastest or most advantageous route to go from A to Btaking into account all the other public transport offers. Carris Metropolitana's lines are marked with their official colors: red for the Long Lines, orange for the Fast Lines and blue for the Nearby Lines (which usually have circular routes, within neighborhoods or localities).
"Since the idea is to leave the car at home and continue the journey by public transport, the integration of Carris Metropolitana in Google presupposes that the passenger still has access to all the connections with the other means of transport that circulate in the Lisbon metropolitan area (amL)"indicates Carris Metropolitana in a statement.
