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San Leandro LINKS Shuttle Service Alternatives <br />San Leandro Transportation Management Organization <br /> <br />Nelson\Nygaard Consulting Associates Inc. | 3-4 <br />Figure 17 Mission Bay Shuttle (San Francisco) Homepage <br /> <br />The Mission Bay TMA operates two free shuttles (East and West Loop) between BART and Mission Bay in San Francisco. Its <br />homepage brings people directly to schuttle schedules with maps and other information located as links. <br />Real-time Arrival Information <br />As a last-mile shuttle circulator for BART and AC Transit, we must presume that many riders will <br />require a transfer to use the LINKS service. The time associated with a transfer to LINKS plays a <br />major role in whether or not a transit trip is attractive and viable. Given that the service is free, <br />the transfer time and route time are the most important factors in providing an attractive service <br />for potential users. While service resources limit the frequency of service, transit research has <br />shown that real-time arrival information has helped reduce the negative impact of waiting for a <br />transfer. Thus, by providing the estimated wait times, individuals are more likely to find the <br />service convenient. In the past several years, numerous companies have focused on providing <br />real-time arrival information via smartphone using on-board automatic vehicle location (AVL) <br />software. <br />There are several vendors currently providing this service for large and small transit systems, <br />including: <br /> Next Bus (California) <br /> Transloc (North Carolina) <br /> Doublemap (Indiana) <br /> Syncromatics (California)