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Enter
your starting point:
Please
type where your trip begins. This can be your home address, nearby
crossing streets or intersection, the cross streets of a nearby
bus stop, or a common landmark. Entries may be typed without regard
to case. "Main Street", "MAIN STREET", and "main street" are processed
equally.
The
Plan Your Trip system examines all transit stops within a 1/2 mile
of your starting location. If there is no transit stop within this
distance, the system will select the next nearest stop within five
miles of your starting location. The calculated itinerary may begin
at any of these possible transit stops. If there is no transit stop
within five miles of your starting location, please select another
location to begin your trip. Requests for the fastest trip or the
trip with the least walking, take the distance to the stop into
consideration by applying a moderate walking rate to apply more
time to trips with greater distances to the first stop.
Enter the starting location for your trip. You can enter:
- A specific
address (100 N Myrtle Avenue)
- The name
of two intersecting streets separated by the word "AT" or "AND"
or the colon symbol ":" (Myrtle Ave: Forsyth St)
- The name
of a landmark (JTA). If you want to see a list of landmarks
to select from, enter the first few letters of the landmark's
name followed by a question mark. (e.g., "JT?"). After submitting
the itinerary request Plan Your Trip displays a drop-down box
and you may click an item to select it and copy it into the
location box. Choices are based on the matching the letters
preceding the "?". You may enter a key word, short phrase, or
string of letters, e.g., "?college?" to locate Florida Community
College Jacksonville, Edward Waters College and Jones College.
Entry
of a city name is optional. Certain community names may not be recognized
by the system. If an un-incorporated community name is not recognized,
please use the municipality name.
Entry
of a ZIP Code is optional. It is useful to reduce the number of
ambiguous addresses within a city such as where a roadway runs through
several ZIP codes in the city.
If
the system finds more than one location in its digital map database
which matches your request, the system displays a list of choices
from which to select. If you cannot determine which to choose, you
should try a nearby intersection rather than a discrete address.
Try another intersection such as a known transit stop intersection,
or use a nearby landmark.
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Enter
your destination:
The
Plan Your Trip system examines all transit stops within 1/2 mile
of your final destination. The calculated itinerary may end at any
of these possible transit stops. Requests for the fastest trip or
the trip with the least walking take the distance from the last
stop to the final destination into consideration by applying a moderate
walking rate to apply more time to trips with greater distances.
If there is no transit stop within a 1/2 mile of your destination,
no itinerary can be prepared.
Please
type where your trip ends. This can be a specific address, nearby
crossing streets or intersection, the cross streets of a nearby
bus stop, or a common landmark. Entries may be typed without regard
to case. "Main Street", "MAIN STREET", and "main street" are processed
equally.
Enter
the destination location for your trip. You can enter:
- A specific
address (100 N Myrtle Avenue)
- The name
of two intersecting streets separated by the word "AT" or "AND"
or the colon symbol ":" (Myrtle Ave: Forsyth St)
- The name
of a landmark (JTA). If you want to see a list of landmarks
to select from, enter the first few letters of the landmark's
name followed by a question mark. (e.g., "JT?"). After "submitting
the itinerary request Plan Your Trip displays a drop-down box
and you may click an item to select it and copy it into the
location box. Choices are based on the matching the letters
preceding the "?". You may enter a key word, short phrase, or
string of letters, e.g., "?college?" to locate Florida Community
College Jacksonville, Edward Waters College, and Jones College.
Entry
of a city name is optional. Certain community names may not be recognized
by the system. If an un-incorporated community name is not recognized,
please use the municipality name.
Entry
of a ZIP Code is optional. It is useful to reduce the number of
ambiguous addresses within a city such as where a roadway runs through
several ZIP codes in the city.
If
the Plan Your Trip system finds more than one location in its digital
map database which matches your request, the system displays a list
of choices from which to select. If you cannot determine which to
choose, you should try a nearby intersection rather than a discrete
address. Try another intersection such as a known transit stop intersection,
or use a nearby landmark.
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Enter
your trip day:
Enter
the day you want to travel. You must enter the date according
to the format. The first text field is the month, the second
text field is the day, and the last text field is the year.
The Plan Your Trip system is programmed to use weekday, Saturday,
Sunday, and other special schedules from most all of the fixed route
transit providers in the region so it is important to correctly
enter the date you expect to begin your trip.
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(mm = month,
dd = day, yy = year)
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Itineraries:
The
Plan Your Trip system calculates the trip time from the time you
need to leave to board the first leg of your trip (or selected as
the time you prefer to leave) until you arrive at your final destination.
The
system includes time to go to the first boarding point, to transfer,
and to go from the final deboarding to the final destination based
on a moderate rate of walking. When calculating an itinerary with
the least walking distance, the system strives to produce an itinerary
with the absolute least walking distance, occasionally producing
itineraries which require substantial travel time and distance.
SAMPLE
ITINERARY
Each
Itinerary begins with a description of where you selected to begin
your trip (see "Depart...")
Each
trip leg contains information on
- Where
to go to board the first or next vehicle (Go to Regency Square
Transit Hub),
- Which
transit carrier (e.g. JTA), line (e.g. AR-5), the vehicle's
headsign (e.g. Regency-FCCJ-UNF) and the time the vehicle is
projected to arrive for boarding (e.g. 6:02 pm.) The time of
the next vehicle on this line is also provided.
- Where
to get off (e.g. UNF Library) and the projected arrival time
(e.g. 6:36 pm.)
Each
itinerary ends with the description of your final destination as
entered on the itinerary request screen.
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