FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact Information:
Roger L. Cauvin
(512) 327-3097
rcauvin@dadnab.com
Dadnab delivers transit
information to Bay Area text messagers
SAN FRANCISCO,
CA (August 13, 2007) — Transit riders throughout the San Francisco Bay Area can
for the first time get route and schedule information using text messaging from
their mobile phones.
Transportation
startup Dadnab (www.dadnab.com) launched the service, which covers
the multi-county area spanning San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Rosa, Fremont,
Oakland, Fairfield, Santa Clara, Pleasanton, Alameda, San Ramon, San Mateo,
Cupertino, Berkeley, Mountain View, and other cities.
A Bay Area Dadnab user sends a text message (SMS) with an origin and
destination to bay@dadnab.com. Seconds later, the user receives a text message with the optimal routes and times to get
to the desired destination by rail, bus, or ferry.
Dadnab incorporates schedule
information from 28 Bay Area transit providers and serves a population of more
than seven million residents in the region.
Entrepreneur Roger L. Cauvin
founded and operates the service.
“The Dadnab
service is for people who want to reach their destinations efficiently and
without having to study maps and schedules,” he says. “Having an itinerary delivered to your phone –
wherever you are and whenever you want – makes public transportation easy.”
The Bay Area service not
only delivers exact departure, transfer, and arrival times in text messages, it
also enables commuters to travel across cities.
“A
Google employee can send a single text message to find out how to get from Google
headquarters in
In addition to
entering their origins and destinations, Dadnab users
can include desired departure or arrival times in their queries. Instructions,
examples, and support are available through Dadnab’s
Web site.
Dadnab also serves
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