What began as a hackathon program that allowed users to design their own fantasy bus routes recently grew into a real-world, transit-planning application called Remix. The users are now mostly departments-of-transportation workers, and the lines they're designing are helping save time and money on real transit routes.
"We have been using Remix to help us develop maps that show proposed routes and service scenarios," says Vanessa Rauschenberger, director of planning at Gold Coast Transit, Camarillo, Calif. "It helped save us time in that we can create many scenarios of maps."