The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (Metro) announced today that the “Go Metro Los Angeles” transit app, in widespread use by customers throughout Los Angeles County, has surpassed more than one million downloads from transit users.
Metro’s transit app was launched in 2015 and has now been downloaded approximately 247,000 times on Android devices and over 762,200 times on iPhone/iPad devices.
The app allows customers to find the closest bus stops and rail stations using GPS, obtain Nextrip real-time arrivals for bus and rail lines, use Metro’s Trip Planner, check and receive service alerts, download maps and more.
In recent years the popularity of mobile devices and mobile apps have been on the rise with 65 percent of all web traffic to metro.net coming from a mobile device. On average, the mobile app receives 900,000 sessions each month (compared to 1.4 million sessions for metro.net), but an astounding 8.7 million screen views each month (compared to 3.4 million screen views for metro.net).
The app is designed and managed by Metro’s Communications Web & Mobile Department and developed by Axiom xCell.
