iCaltrain: Caltrain Schedule for iPhone, gPhone, and Mobile Phones

iCaltrain app is now in the App Store. If you’re already an iCaltrain web app user, you’ll love the speed and smoothness of this app.

iCaltrain is fast and simple to use. It includes:
- scheduled arrivals for today, weekdays, and weekends (no Internet access required!)
- ticket price and zone information
- multi-touch Caltrain system map
- one-touch return trip schedule

The next two trains’ arrival times for today are instantly shown as you select the stations. The full schedule view automatically scrolls to the upcoming trains for today, too.

Location support is under beta testing right now and will be introduced as an free update.

iCaltrain v1.0 went through 2 weeks of beta testing, and was submitted to Apple’s App Store today. The native app starts up quickly and enables a user to find the next arriving trains in less than 10 seconds.

Thanks to the 20 or so beta testers for their feedback and suggestions. Your feedback has helped improved the app for all Caltrain riders.

I’m happy to announce that the Caltrain schedule app is nearing completion. I’m looking for a few beta testers who’d like early access and wouldn’t mind sharing their feedback.

Because Apple’s ad hoc distribution method requires that the app is signed for each iPhone, please locate your device ID in iTunes and email to me at <icaltrain at gmail>. I’ll make a build for you iPhone for you.

Thanks to all the great feedback so far. Please keep them coming.

I’ll be at iPhoneDevCamp in SF (August 1-3) getting feedback and hacking on the new releases.

iCaltrain has been tested to work on the new iPhone 3G and on iPhones updated to firmware 2.0. Thanks to everyone for their great suggestions, which will be incorporated into the next iCaltrain update — coming soon in both web-version and an native version through the app store.

iCaltrain has been updated to reflect the new, evening train schedule.

“Effective Monday, March 3, Caltrain will add two evening local trains to its weekday schedule. The additional service will fill a gap in evening service in both directions and make the schedule easier for customers to remember. Trains will depart every hour on the half-hour from San Jose from 7:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. From San Francisco trains would depart every hour on the half-hour from 7:30 p.m. until 10:30 p.m.; however, the final southbound train will still depart from San Francisco at 12:01 a.m.” via Caltrain.com

“TransitCampBayArea will highlight the public transit system in the Bay Area Region and will bring together transit officials and citizens to discuss stuff like: getting schedules on the go, the future of the Bay Area transit system, experiences and observations (not complaints, though), the websites, cool ideas for attracting more riders, etc.”

Based on popular request, I’ve added a web clip bookmark icon for the iPhone (1.1.3+) and iPod Touch. Check it out by pressing ‘+‘ in Safari, and select ‘Add to Home Screen’.

Thanks to all who sent in ideas and even sample icon designs!

The new build of Safari in iPhone update 1.1.1 removed the support of the CSS style “box-sizing”, which caused the iCaltrain home screen to overflow the screen in portrait mode.  The solution was to replace “box-sizing” with “-webkit-box-sizing”. (Thanks to Chris B. for confirming the issue.)

Did you know that Atherton is serviced by Caltrain on weekends? I do now, thanks to John S., and I’ve added it to the list of stations.