Simplify Your Transit Website Build with Ride Guide
Planning a website development project for your transit agency? Don’t let custom development costs and scope creep derail your plans.
Ride Guide takes the complexity out of building a transit website saving you time, money, and frustration.
Why transit websites are different
Every transit website has two key parts:
Content Pages – These are your standard web pages: ticketing info, how-to guides, lost property, news, etc. They’re managed through a CMS like WordPress, Silverstripe, or Drupal.
Transit Tools – This is where things get tricky. Timetables, route maps, real-time service alerts, and trip planners are all essential for passengers but building them requires deep expertise.
Getting started with Content Pages is straightforward. There are thousands of web development companies that can build attractive, user-friendly sites at a low cost. DIY tools like Squarespace or Wix make it even easier for small teams or in-house builds.
But Transit Tools? That’s a whole other story.
The costly challenge of custom Transit Tools
Unlike basic content pages, transit tools require specialized development. You’re dealing with GTFS data, trip planning APIs, GIS map layers, and GTFS-RT service alerts. These integrations are technical, complex, and often open-ended.
That complexity often leads to three outcomes:
A great-looking site—but at a high cost.
A bare-bones solution—with limited features or a clunky passenger experience.
A project that never launches—due to budget blowouts or missed deadlines.
Ride Guide: The smarter way to build a transit website
That’s where Ride Guide steps in.
We provide ready-to-use, fully featured transit tools that can be embedded directly into any website—starting with GTFS Timetables, one of the most critical features for passengers. With this tool handled, your developers can focus on what they do best: designing and building an attractive home page and helpful, informative content pages. We’ll handle the transit tech.
Ride Guide opens up your options. You’re no longer locked into clunky, unattractive, and inaccessible solutions that don’t put your riders first. Instead, you can use any trusted website partner or internal team to build your site content, then simply plug in Ride Guide tools to get your riders the information they need with as few taps, clicks, and swipes as possible.
What you gain with Ride Guide
✅ No custom dev risk – Our tools are pre-built and demo-ready. What you see is exactly what you get.
✅ Predictable pricing – Transparent setup and subscription costs, with no hidden surprises.
✅ Best-in-class features – Your passengers get modern, user-friendly tools without you needing a big-agency budget.
✅ Faster timelines – Eliminate the delays of scoping, building, testing, and refining bespoke tools.
With Ride Guide, you’re giving your riders tools typically only seen on big-city transit websites, but without the big-city price tag.
Let’s make your project easier
If you’re planning a new transit website or refreshing an old one, don’t reinvent the wheel. Ride Guide makes the complex parts simple—so you can focus on delivering a great experience, faster and more affordably.