Ian Murnane never waits more than a minute for a bus.
In a world where public transport tends to get a bad rap, that’s no mean feat.
But it’s much more than good luck – Ian and fellow Griffith University graduate Ferguson McBryde developed the Android app ‘Where’s That Bus‘.
The app, which covers the Gold Coast to the Sunshine Coast, allows a user to see exactly where a bus is at any given time. It provides an ETA to within 30 seconds.
Perhaps not surprisingly, the desire to create Where’s The Bus came from the graduates’ own experiences.
“We were students on student budgets, so we relied on public transport, but we were never able to see when buses would arrive,” said Mr McBryde.
Mr Murnane soon realised the data they needed was already online and the app took shape.
“I started to get information like GPS coordinates out of the Google Packet,” he said. “Eventually we