While traveling to and from work we're always in a hurry, and if a train is late that feels like the end of the world. And the trains are often late. To avoid this feeling of doom every morning Stockholmstågen developed an application that in real time shows where the train is, where in the train there is crowded and allows you activate push-notifications for selected journeys so that you will know that the train is late in advance. The application is only available for the pendeltåg, since that's the only trains that has the technology needed right now.
Demo: https://vimeo.com/86974761
I don't usually go by pendeltåg, but my view of the pendeltåg is that people ALWAYS complain about how late they are, that they are cancelled and that they have signal errors. When I then found Pendelkollen, I thought that that would be the main focus for the users. Though, when I googled Pendelkollen, I mainly found articles and reviews that focus on that you now are able to see which part of the train that is less crowed, so that people won't have to stand up, which I really didn't expect to be the worst issue. Of course, Stockholmståg can't market the app through "Now you're able to see when we're late in advance", but at least I expected peoples online opinions would be more like that.
http://www.mobil.se/appar/pendelkollen#.VgLGBoedqGU
http://www.postvagnen.com/forum/index.php?mode=thread&id=820204
http://computersweden.idg.se/2.2683/1.550449/trangt-pa-pendeln-nu-far-du-hjalp-att-valja-vagn
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