Blog 7: Rocket Man

An Application focused on the TTC

The Rocket Man Icon

What is the Rocket Man App?

Rocket Man on an iPhone

Rocket Man is an application that can be found on Android phones or apple products such as an iPhone, iPad or even an iPod touch. This app allows you to see the schedules for buses and street cars. It designed to work for all of Toronto and works with the Toronto Transit Commission. This is a free application.

How does Rocket Man work?

Your phone has a location device that you can turn on. What this does is that it lets your phone locate you. It will find what location you are standing at. The Rocket Man works with this technology. This way Rocket Man locates where you are standing (with a blue dot) and what the closest bus stops to you are. The bus stops appear as a red dot. If you click on these dots on either side of the roads you will see options to bus numbers that will stop at that given bus stop. You will also notice that there are east, south, north and west given to help you identify which way you or the bus are going.

The Street View Screen

You click on the given option for the bus stops and you will come to a screen that looks like this:

The Bus Information Screen

This screen gives you all the information about the arrival of the bus. For example, the 504-King bus which is going East Towards Broadview station via king will arrive in 2:12 minutes which is 5:18 PM. 

If the given bus is a bus you tend to use a lot you can easily favorite it. To favorite it you have to click the start beside the bus information, and once the star has turned yellow you've favorited the bus number and which direction/station its going towards. This saves a lot of time when you're in a rush because to find the bus all you have to do is open the app and in the main screen at the bottom you'll see a bar with a lot of options, you click on the option that says favorite to find the buses you have favorited.

More about this Rocket Man

You'll notice at the bottom bar you are also given the choices of "more" and "alerts". If you click on the more section you will find information about it's twitter and facebook page and how to contact them. You an also share this app with friends and rate it. 

The More Section of the App

In the "alerts" section of the app you're given three sections. The three sections are alerts, news and events. Alerts is warming you about closed buses and whatnot. News is news about the TTC such as ones that deal with workers and what not. Events is any event that the TTC might be holding or is involved in.

The Alert Section of the App

Opinions on Rocket Man

This app is very helpful to the people who live in Toronto and constantly use the TTC to travel. They can save time and be punctual through the help of this app. Also the weather is very unpredictable, so they can decide when to leave their house and what not to catch a bus rather than waiting outside and freezing for a bus that will come 30 minutes late. Over all it's a great app that you can find in the Apple Store and Google Play.