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How it works

Next Stop Adelaide follows the vehicle you're on, not your phone, so it can alert you with your phone locked in your pocket.

  1. 1. Find your vehicleNear me picks the train, tram or bus closest to you (best once you're on board). Or choose the route and tap your vehicle, or type the number painted on it. Or use Where to?: type a destination and see services from stops near you, direct or with one change (say, a train then a bus), then tap Select. We'll tell you when to leave, ring when your vehicle reaches the stop before yours, tell you where to change, and alert you before you get off.
  2. 2. Pick your stopYou'll see the stops still ahead with live arrival times. Choose where you're getting off and how early to be alerted: 2, 3 or 5 minutes.
  3. 3. Lock your phoneOur server follows that vehicle on Adelaide Metro's live feed every minute. Your phone doesn't need to track anything, so it saves battery.
  4. 4. Get 5 alertsAs your stop approaches, you get 5 notifications 5 seconds apart. Live delays are taken into account. If the app is open, it rings as well.

Good to know

  • iPhone: add the app to your Home Screen (Share → Add to Home Screen) and open it from there. iOS only sends notifications to Home Screen web apps.
  • Alerts are notifications, so Silent mode and Focus can mute them. Allow notifications from Next Stop and keep the ringer on.
  • If you change vehicles, start a new trip for the next one.
  • Times come from Adelaide Metro's live data. If a vehicle stops reporting, we fall back to the timetable plus its last known delay. Keep an eye out too.

Privacy

No account and no location history. Your location is sent to our server only to find vehicles and services near you, and isn't stored. When you search for a destination, the text you type and your position rounded to about 1 km go to Photon, a free OpenStreetMap search by komoot. While a trip is active, our server keeps the vehicle's trip, your stop and your phone's notification address. All of it is deleted when you end the trip, 2 hours after the alerts go off, or after 4 hours if they never do. To count each completed trip once, the counter keeps a random trip number for a day. The app also clears the trip from your phone when it ends.