SEPTA Instant

A SEPTA transit app for android with real-time schedules, regional rail, live bus and trolley vehicle locations, and service advisories updated with push notifications.

Please email me at help@septainstant.com for support before leaving a negative review! I do this as a side project in my spare time. Let's work it out together.

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• Includes all stops for each route and direction.

• Offline Regional Rail schedules

• TrainView. See the live status of late or cancelled trains.

• Express Train support ('Exp' next to train #).

• Select future departure dates.

• Live vehicle tracker for certain bus and trolley routes.

• Advisory, urgent, and detour SEPTA alerts.

• Alert Push Notifications. Advisory notifications straight to your phone.

• 'Favourite' your most recently used stops.

A note about "trip planning":

This is intended as a lightweight schedules app and not a trip-planner (due to the feature needing very large "graph database" and lots of other development complexities). As such, it's highly probable that it'll never support end-to-end trip planning across separate routes. Sorry about that.

Explanation of the required android permissions:

ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE - To determine a valid internet connection

WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE - For eventual download of updated GTFS database data. Currently unused

INTERNET - For any network communications to retrieve schedules and vehicle locations.

GET_ACCOUNTS - Needed for Push notification service.

ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION - Plot where you currently are

MAPS_RECEIVE - Vehicle tracking maps.

READ_GSERVICES - Needed for MapsV2.

BILLING - Nothing funky. Used in case you wish to donate with an in-app purchase.

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SEPTA Instant is not affiliated with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transport Association.