As has happened with Apple Pay, when we are several weeks without news, in the same week news related to these services begin to appear. On Monday, Apple began provide information on public transport in Ireland, coincidentally the day that Hurricane Orphelia made its way through the country and most of the public transportation had been suspended.
Today it is the turn of the city of Birmingham, but not that of the United Kingdom, but the one found in the state of Alabama, in the United States, so that both residents in the area, and anyone who visits it, can get around using public transport.
Apple Maps public transport data for Birmingham includes all public transport platforms, in addition to including the state of traffic on the main access roads to the city. As is customary in the operation of Apple Maps, when we want to calculate a route, the application offers us different routes so that the user reaches their destination as soon as possible.
Information about public transportation came to Apple Maps with the release of iOS 9, being available in 7 American cities and 30 Chinese, but over time this information has been extended to more and more countries so that we can know at all times where we have to go to catch the train to a certain destination without having to consult the website or the public transport maps of the city.
In some cities, such as Washington DC, the implementation of this service was somewhat more complicated, since Apple wanted to offer information on neighboring cities such as Virginia and Maryland, from where many citizens go to work in the capital of the country.
