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Do you use buses, trains and subways to get around? Your journey can become better with these three apps Public Transport is undoubtedly the most economical way to get around the city.

Even for those who drive, taking the subway or train can often be a way to get to the future sooner, taking advantage of the tracks to escape congestion on the streets and avenues.

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But it's not always easy to take a bus, subway or train to some place you've never been to before, or even better to know how the manifest trance doctrine of a city you're visiting for the first time works.

Fortunately, some free apps provide detailed information about the buses and the best routes so you can ride without suffering. Let's go to them!

How much life would it last if they invented Google Maps right now? Yes, Google Maps has supported trance routes for a long time now and is probably nestled on your smartphone, but you can get a better idea if you use dedicated apps for that.

Additional functions include the ability to find the nearest stops, detect the approaching time of a nearby bus and reproduce traffic in real time.

Moovit

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Moovit is the most familiar program of its kind and is capable of operating in more than 1,200 cities, around 100 of which are Brazilian.

It is not restricted to large centers, such as São Paulo or Rio de Janeiro: the individual cities of Blumenau (SC), São Carlos (SP), Maringá (PR) and Juiz de Fora (MG), for example, can also take the main resources.

A new modernization of Moovit has made the interface simpler. In the Stations panel, the program signals bus stops

Closer; By touching them, you can sniff out which lines pass through that place and how soon the next bus will arrive, based on the information released by your city's authorities.

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The Lines table displays the status of the lines, useful for sniffing out whether there are any slowdowns on the subway or temporary changes in the direction of the bus.

A cool feature of Moovit is the taxi collection function, carried out in partnership with Easy Taxi.

I don't drive, and I usually take taxis as an accessory to the subway or train to go to places where the road doesn't reach — I get off at the nearest stop and from there I call a taxi in the future.

So, less exhausted, I arrive sooner and I don't worry about how high the bus should get off (which on certain occasions is not so close to the desired seat).

Citymapper

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Citymapper is currently my favorite Public Transport program option. Perhaps the only capable trick is the case in which

Citymapper supports very few cities: only 31, the only Brazilian one being São Paulo.

So, unless you are from Cacimba or are from São Paulo, it probably won't be very profitable.

The only free Brazilian city on Citymapper is with public health services.

When searching for a bus ticket, you can check exactly where the vehicles are located.

Therefore, it is likely to plan better and avoid waiting too long at the time.

It is the Living Eye of SPTrans, as pure as the program’s interior.

There is other information that makes your life easier: when taking subway transit.

Citymapper is able to remember the best part of the train for you to board (front, middle or back).

This makes it possible, when assembling at the future stop or transfer, for you to disembark safely in front of the correct staircase. It also shows, in the “City” section, the location of the subway and train lines.

When searching for a transit, you can press the “Go” button, and Citymapper will take care of monitoring your situation on a new plane.

It also has affiliation with Uber to remember mixed routes: you can take a personal trance even to the nearest train stop and from there go even the desired future.

Traffic

Trafi operates in the cities of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte.

In my experience, the routes suggested by Trafi are reliable, and there are options for all times: when searching for traffic, the program quickly returns the recommended direction,

The direction with fewer line changes, the direction that requires less walking and the “first” direction, to set up sooner for the future.

It has a sufficiently attractive interface and provides good functionality, displaying the status of buses on your route and user alerts such as late buses.

Since I published the first interpretation of this text, Trafi has evolved enough in Brazil.

The range of addresses, which sometimes failed (places like “Av. Paulista, 900” did not return results), is smarter.

All that remains is to estimate the affiliation with the Bilhete Único for the city of São Paulo: some routes costing R$ 11.40, in fact, cost R$ 3.80 with the integrations.

Especially for those who frequently travel through the Rio-São Paulo center, Trafi is a great option to consider. It is free and available for Android, iOS and the web. Originally published on November 13, 2015.

Updated October 14, 2016 with updated app features and numbers.