Buff Bus has upgraded its Transit app with improved software designed to provide real-time bus location information based on GPS tracking, rather than predicted route schedules. The new software went live in January.

“It’s important for our riders to know when to expect the bus, and when the buses are running off-schedule,” said Tom Christian, senior operations compliance program manager for Buff Bus operations at CU Boulder. “We are trying to improve the Buff Bus experience, and this upgrade makes it easier for our riders to plan their daily schedules.”

Previously the app relied on regular schedules to predict when a particular bus was supposed to arrive, but if the buses got off schedule due to weather or traffic delays, the app didn’t offer GPS based tracking. Now, with this upgrade, the Transit app is able to feed data real-time from the bus’s GPS unit to determine its real-time location and more accurately predict how long it will take to reach the next stop.