{"id":7128,"date":"2018-02-06T10:56:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T15:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=7128"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:04","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:04","slug":"ritmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/06\/ritmo\/","title":{"rendered":"New app reinvents U-M bus system to be more like Uber"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7129\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7129\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7129\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/msk.NEW_.RITMO_.1.26.18901-e1518018765937.jpg\" alt=\"RITMO vans\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7129\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Max Kuang\/Daily<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Reinventing Urban Transportation and Mobility (RITMO) aims to revolutionize public transit through an online app that turns transportation into an on-demand service.\u00a0RITMO, partnering with Ford Motor Company, will allow students, faculty, and\u00a0staff to use on-demand shuttle transportation linked with the U-M bus system.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pascal Van Hentenryck<\/strong>, a professor at the College of Engineering who leads the project, hopes to resolve inefficiencies that occur\u00a0when individuals have to walk more than a \u201ccomfortable distance\u201d (typically 1\/4 mile) to access public transportation. The app, which currently serves travelers on North Campus, launched on January 16. Developers hope to eventually expand the service to the whole university. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.michigandaily.com\/section\/research\/new-app-helps-turns-university-bus-system-demand-service\">Read the story in The Michigan Daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reinventing Urban Transportation and Mobility (RITMO) aims to revolutionize public transit through an online app that turns transportation into an on-demand service.\u00a0RITMO, partnering with Ford Motor Company, will allow students, faculty, and\u00a0staff to use on-demand shuttle transportation linked with the U-M bus system. Pascal Van Hentenryck, a professor at the College of Engineering who leads the project, hopes\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2018\/02\/06\/ritmo\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[69,21,324],"class_list":["post-7128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-apps","tag-innovation","tag-transportation"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/msk.NEW_.RITMO_.1.26.18901-e1518018765937.jpg",600,400,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/msk.NEW_.RITMO_.1.26.18901-125x83.jpg",125,83,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/msk.NEW_.RITMO_.1.26.18901-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/msk.NEW_.RITMO_.1.26.18901-e1518018765937.jpg",600,400,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/msk.NEW_.RITMO_.1.26.18901-700x467.jpg",600,400,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/msk.NEW_.RITMO_.1.26.18901-e1518018765937.jpg",600,400,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/msk.NEW_.RITMO_.1.26.18901-e1518018765937.jpg",600,400,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/msk.NEW_.RITMO_.1.26.18901-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/msk.NEW_.RITMO_.1.26.18901-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/msk.NEW_.RITMO_.1.26.18901-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/msk.NEW_.RITMO_.1.26.18901-665x443.jpg",665,443,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/msk.NEW_.RITMO_.1.26.18901-e1518018765937.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Reinventing Urban Transportation and Mobility (RITMO) aims to revolutionize public transit through an online app that turns transportation into an on-demand service.\u00a0RITMO, partnering with Ford Motor Company, will allow students, faculty, and\u00a0staff to use on-demand shuttle transportation linked with the U-M bus system. 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