Buenos Aires is the largest city in Argentina and has a wide public transport network that includes more than 180 bus lines, 7 trains, 6 subway lines and 195 km of cycle paths that offers to the 4.5 million residents and visitors different alternatives when travelling. Cómo llego (How I get there) is the official city app that helps them move around the city in the most efficient way by public transportation, car, bicycle, taxi or on foot. It is available for Android and IOS and has more than 700.000 active users that do 1 million searches per week.

It integrates real time information of subways, trains and buses to let users know when the next transport is arriving and also the different fares to provide more transparent information and let residents and visitors make better decisions.

The goals for 2019 are to include predictions for all bus lines -currently only available for those already sensorized-, include Metropolitan Area services and open the app code to the community. By doing so we aim to promote its replication in other cities -saving resources- and improve it by civic collaboration, strengthening our services, making our government more transparent and also work towards our objectives as a smart city.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ar.gob.buenosaires.comollego

• Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

• Youth
• Older persons
• Women
• People with disabilities
• The poor
• Migrants
• All residents and visitors of Buenos Aires.

The app can be design and develop with the looks and feels of any city, province or country. The department of geographic services and Transportation has to have the public transportation database, and bus line stops’ information. Actually by 2019 we want to open our code and API, so they can feed their apps with our code.

The app reflects sustainable ways of transportation and moving through the city of Buenos Aires. It actually encourages the users with positive messages that the mean of transportation that they choose is sustainable.
By opening our code we are favoring the reuse of resources that have been already met, so different levels of government don’t have to spend resources on developments done in the past.

It helps our community to move around the city in a more efficient and sustainable way, by choosing a public tool. It also provides citizens with information to decide which transport means they can take: it provide costs, time of arrival and the duration of route. It contains Open Government components, since we are opening our code. We promote awareness of the possibilities offered by different software models, and the means of their creation, including proprietary, open-source and free software. We want to deliver freedom of choice and affordability, and to enable all stakeholders to evaluate which solution best meets their requirements. It is an initiative of the Government of Buenos Aires to provide its citizens an e-tools for the Information Society and for the exchange of best practices. We want to support the development of the design of useful instruments for all stakeholders to foster increased awareness, assessment, and evaluation of different means of transportation.