Uber has noted that people get stressed in the morning as they juggle various apps to plan their trip into work across different modes of transport. To assist commuters, Uber has launched ‘Make My Train’ which will show riders the train schedule of participating train stations and will allow them to select the train they want from within the Uber app. The data is sourced from real-time transit data so riders will know if there have been any delays.
Riders can choose how much time they want to havebefore the train leaves when they arrive at the station by and Uber will sort out the rest. Today, the feature will arrive on the U.S.’ largest commuter rail systems: the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in New York and Caltrain in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Using the feature is simple, just follow these steps:
- Enter the station name as your destination
- Choose the train you want to take
- Select your target drop off time (or use the recommendation)
- Schedule a ride in the Uber app (except UberPOOL) and Uber will pick you up and get you to your station
As governments around the world begin to encourage people to ditch their cars in favour of public transit as efforts are ramped up to tackle climate change, tools like ‘Make My Train’ will become more important in order to give people a seamless experience across transport types.
Uber has not issued a schedule for when "Make My Train" will be rolled out to other areas.