From the lengthy Store description:
Moovit is everything you need to ride public transit smarter. Choose the fastest, least crowded route, every time based on real time data. Check schedules, real time arrivals and receive service alerts. Best of all, it’s free and powered by the crowd.
- Supports more than 300 cities and 20+ languages
- Special World Cup Edition
- Live arrivals: Click a nearby station on the map, or search for a specific line
- Trip planner: Compare between alternate routes to your destination
- Real time service alerts / advisories: Receive real time updates with push notifications on the lines you use frequently
- Static transport system maps for NY, LA, SF, Boston, Chicago, Miami and other popular train / subway / tram systems (a PDF viewer is required).
Moovit is a real cooperative, community-driven project. We start with complete schedule-based transit information, then add real-time data from operators and users. Just by riding with Moovit open, you help contribute live data back to the community. You can also send active reports about your ride or station from the report button.
Moovit is, of course, cross-platform, so you're benefitting from the movements and data from iOS and Android users too.
Just for reference, the "World Cup" bit refers to(!):
Change your avatar to support your favourite World Cup team!
Visit facebook.com/moovit to see which team is winning the "Moovit" World Cup!
Headed to Brazil for the games?
- Moovit has service in all 12 host cities!
- Easily navigate to Stadiums and Fan Fests by searching in the trip planner or special icons on the map
- Check Service Alerts to get live updates on transit conditions
Of course, I had to take Moovit for a spin, armed with good knowledge of the public transport here in the South of the UK:
The interface is light, colourful and modern, at least - a little gimmicky to see 'world cup zone' actually on the menu for Moovit's appearance on Windows Phone though!
Hunting through settings, it turns out that there's an awful lot Moovit will want to tell you about - though thankfully it can selectively be disabled; (right) time to try Moovit for a real. I need to get to Wembley Stadium, so Wembley Park tube station etc....
Oh dear. 2 hours 15 mins minimum? That's silly. I know I can get there in well under 2 hours in real life. (right) Digging into the plans reveals that Moovit is choosing to use the slower overland bus system in London...
Now, 'bus' routing can be deselected in the Settings, but then I lose the facility to use the local bus here to get to the main rail station in the first place! Resulting in a one hour planned walk to get to the nearest station and a much longer journey again.
I ran the same complex journey through Nokia's HERE Transit and got times (and realistic planning) that were much more in line with what I'd have chosen, with journeys at least half an hour shorter, using just the underground (tube) in London rather than the slower buses.
So, Moovit is flawed, I think, but comments welcome if you've had better results. In the meantime, if you want to play with it then you can download Moovit for free here in the Windows Phone Store.