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Plan your trip

• Trip planner

Next ride text

Next ride call, next ride message.

• Schedules and stop times
• NextRide display

Realtime map

Mobile apps, help with trip planning, using the trip planner.

• Enter your origin and destination by typing the address, intersection, landmark or station name and selecting from the list of suggestions.
• Click "Plan my trip" and the trip planner will generate a step-by-step itinerary in a new tab.
• To change the date and time of travel, click on the "Leave now" button".
• Click on the "Options" button to change your preferences for mode of travel, fewest transfers or to minimize walking.

Launch the trip planner

Text your four-digit stop number to 57555. The stop number can be found on the lower right corner of the bus stop sign.

You'll receive a text back with the next three real-time departure times for your stop. If real-time departure information isn't available, you'll see an asterisk next to the time, indicating it is a scheduled departure time.

Standard rates for text messaging from your service provider will apply. No additional fees for this service will be charged by GRT.

Call 519-585-7555, select option 1 when prompted, and enter your four-digit stop number. The stop number can be found on the lower right corner of the bus stop sign. The next bus departure times will be read to you.

Message our Facebook page with your 4-digit stop number, and you'll receive an automated message back with upcoming departures from that stop. Note that this only works on Facebook, not Instagram.

Schedule and departures tools

Look up the schedule for your route at schedule.grt.ca .

Look up next departures from any stop at stoptimes.grt.ca .

Display real-time departure information on your desktop, digital monitor, or phone. You can look up a single stop, multiple stops, or a terminal or station to see all departures.

nextride.grt.ca

Departures display

NextRide makes it easy to display bus and train departures on any monitor or display connected to a web browser. Just launch the website, enter the numbers of the stops you want displayed, and click Go. The screen will show real-time departure information and will refresh automatically.

The real-time map allows you to get up-to-the-minute information about bus routes around Waterloo Region. Please note the map is for desktop use only, and is not mobile-friendly.

View the realtime map

There are a number of third-party mobile apps available for transit users. All of these apps use GRT’s real-time data feeds.

This is not a comprehensive list. There may be other third-party developers that have also incorporated data feeds available from Grand River Transit.

Note: Grand River Transit does not develop or provide any of the apps listed above. Grand River Transit does not set any fees for, collect revenue from, or provide support for these apps.

If you need help planning your trip, call 519-585-7555. Live help is available 24/7.

We will need to know:

• Day of travel (weekday, weekend or holiday)?
• Time of travel (early morning, during the day or late night)?
• Where you're starting
• Where you're going

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Quickly see the information that really matters. Save your favourite trips and immediately see when the next scheduled bus leaves.

Location-Aware

Easily create favourite trips by finding nearby stops.

See the departure and arrival times for any day so you can plan your daily commute, errand run, or evening out.

Internet-less

See when the next bus leaves without worrying if you have an Internet connection. Perfect for the iPod touch®.

Retina Ready

High-resolution graphics for the Retina™ display on the iPhone® 4 and new iPod touch.

Free for a limited time.

Requires iOS 4.1 or higher.

Version History

1.1.1 (september 9, 2011).

• Updated to reflect the fall schedule.

1.1 (July 1, 2011)

• Updated to reflect the summer schedule.
• Ability to browse trip schedules by day.
• Create trips by finding nearby stops using your location.
• Search through routes and stops when managing trips.
• Much faster (up to 2x) at getting trip times.
• Fixed a bug that crashed the app if the Region Format was set to a form of Arabic.

1.0 (June 15, 2011)

• Initial release.

Scheduled times in Ride GRT are not real-time. Plan for early arrivals and delays.

Grand River Transit (GRT) services the cities of Waterloo, Kitchener, and Cambridge in Ontario, Canada.

Ride GRT is not an official GRT app. GRT does not sell, sponsor, endorse, guarantee the accuracy, or license Ride GRT.

© 2011 Marc Piché

Website icons by Joseph Wain

Header photograph © Angelo Alaimo

Retina is a trademark of Apple Inc. App Store is a service mark of Apple Inc. iPhone, and iPod touch are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.

Grand River Transit and ION

Grand River Transit

Grand River Transit (GRT) provides transit service in Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, Elmira and New Hamburg.

GRT operates conventional buses, an express bus network, BusPlus service for community routes, and specialized vehicles that provide door-to-door transit service for riders with disabilities.

Learn more about all of Grand River Transit services .

Rapid Transit

ION light rail operates along a 19-kilometre route between the Conestoga Station in Waterloo and Fairway Station in Kitchener.

ION bus rapid transit began in September 2015, and covers 17 kilometres between Kitchener's Fairview Park and the Ainslie Street terminal in Cambridge.  Stage 2 ION  will see ION bus converted to light rail, creating a seamless light rail route that stretches from Cambridge to Waterloo.

Learn more about ION Rapid Transit services.

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Grand River Transit (GRT) Flex 4+

In waterloo region, spare labs inc..

• 3.1 • 7 Ratings

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Description.

GRT Flex is a public transit option in the Region of Waterloo. It provides on-demand transit, has no fixed route, uses smaller vehicles and customers book their ride in advance. Using this app, you can book your ride, pay your fare and track your trip.

Version 3.21.39

This release brings various new features, improvements and bug fixes

Ratings and Reviews

Amazing service, questionable app.

First off, I’d like to preface by saying that the GRT Flex service is amazing and incredibly useful on the physical side of things. It’s saved me many 50+ minute walks to and from the Breslau neighbourhood where I live and the Victoria/Lackner bus stop, the bus is well kept and the drivers are all incredibly nice and great drivers. However, while the service itself is awesome, there are a few issues(okay, one BIG issue) that could be improved on the application side of things. The UI can feel convoluted at times when trying to access information, you often have to excessively fiddle with times and between leave at/arrive at to get a schedule that actually functions for what you need as it will arbitrarily assign you strange times despite the time that you need actually being perfectly accessible, and the application itself occasionally just randomly becomes clunky to use in general(although that may be my extremely old phone and terribly slow data’s fault). Now, none of the above issues are terrible, and can be easily overlooked. However, the one huge issue I have consistently run into and occasionally been screwed over is schedule changes. More specifically, the applications failure to notify the user of them occurring. I understand that this is a FLEX service, and that the schedule changing due to other bookings is unavoidable and part of the service. However, the application does not really support this aspect of the service, as whenever the schedule changes, the app DOES NOT GIVE THE USER ANY NOTIFCATION. Far too often have I found myself rushing out the door to catch the bus arriving 10 minutes early because someone booked it 30 minutes prior, taking precedence over what I booked over a day ago. On the same coin, I also find myself often anxiously waiting 15 minutes past my scheduled time at my stop for similar reasons. I’ve even missed the bus entirely a couple times because of how drastically early the schedule changes to, making me miss over an hour of my packed university classes. All this due to the app not giving notifications as to schedule changes. Again, I love the actual service, and I accept that schedule changes are an integral part of a flexible transit system. It’s just that the actual application doesn’t really seem to support how flexible the service is. With all that in mind, if any people at GRT read this, PLEASE add notifications that signal schedule changes. It would elevate such an already great service to something truly amazing and profoundly useful.

Horrible app

The timing of the bus arrivals are way off, it will leave in 5 minutes and the bus doesn’t show up for another 20

Just stopped working

It’s just stopped working out of nowhere. It doesn’t give me bus routes. No matter what location I put. It had worked for weeks without any issue. I have tried reinstalling it but no help there. I am genuinely upset, because this app was rlly a life saver:(

App Privacy

The developer, Spare Labs Inc. , indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy .

Data Linked to You

The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

• Contact Info
• User Content
• Identifiers
• Sensitive Info
• Diagnostics

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The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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Planning Your Trip

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• Schedules & Routes

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Plan your trip.

SacRT offers several tools to help plan your trip.     

Google Trip Planner  

Enter your starting point, destination, date and travel time into the Google Trip Planner to see bus and light rail options.  

SacRT BusTracker  

SacRT BusTracker  tells you where your bus is in real-time and when it will arrive at your stop.  

7 Free Travel Planning AI and ChatGPT Apps to Get an Instant Itinerary

These free travel planning apps use AI and machine learning to prepare a holiday itinerary for you in seconds.

Quick Links

• PLAN by ixigo
• Trip Planner AI
• Vacay Chatbot

Key Takeaways

• Layla, Wonderplan, and PLAN by ixigo are AI travel planning apps with customizable itineraries.
• iplan.ai offers detailed itineraries for popular tourist cities based on interests and budget.
• Curiosio plans road trips on all continents, while Trip Planner AI helps with activity selection and cost estimation.

You can tell a travel agent your preferred dates, the place you want to visit, and your budget, and expect a full itinerary of what to do there based on your preferences. But can AI do the same job?

These free travel planning apps use AI and machine-learning tools like ChatGPT to prepare an itinerary for you in a few seconds, and we took them for a spin.

Layla describes itself as an AI trip planner, meaning you can use it to decide your vacation destination, create itineraries, and find suitable hotels and flights.

If you are uncertain about your destination or would like suggestions, you can ask Layla for advice regarding your trip. Otherwise, enter your destination and ask Layla to create your itinerary. Within a few seconds, you'll get a detailed plan for your trip.

As Layla is a chatbot, you can enter a prompt to ask it to change your itinerary. For instance, ask it to focus more on outdoor activities or include local restaurants. If you're unsatisfied with the activities planned on any particular day, you can give instructions and ask Layla to regenerate that part only.

Once you've perfected your itinerary, you can share it with your friends via a URL or add it to your bucket list.

2. Wonderplan

Wonderplan is a wonderful AI tool for planning your trip. To create your itinerary, Wonderplan first asks you to enter your destination country and city, your budget, the number of days you'll be staying, and your interests.

It then creates a travel plan within a few minutes, displaying various places to visit, their descriptions, and the time usually spent at each location. Although Wonderplan doesn't show the trip map, it does provide a link to Google Maps for each place.

It also displays different types of accommodation available (like Airbnb, hotel, or hostel) and their respective costs. Similarly, there are details about transportation, food, and activities. This way, you can estimate the potential cost of your trip.

In addition to your itinerary, Wonderplan also shows essential information about the country you're visiting. These include the currency conversion rate, electricity plug type, languages spoken, weather, and popular conveyances.

3. PLAN by ixigo

PLAN by ixigo starts by asking you about your dream destination. Then, it provides an option to describe the type of experience you want to have. This is just like a ChatGPT prompt, so you can enter anything you wish.

For example, you can specify the duration of your stay, your interests, the kinds of activities you're looking for, whether you have a family with you, and so on.

But if you can't think of any prompts, PLAN by ixigo provides a few trip ideas, so you can always select those. PLAN by ixigo then shows a day-wise plan, showing what you can do in the morning, afternoon, and evening.

However, if the suggested itinerary doesn't sound appealing, you can again enter a prompt to edit it.

4. iplan.ai

While iplan.ai doesn't mention which AI or machine-learning algorithm it uses, the results are fantastic enough to gloss over that. The app works beautifully on phones to give you a full itinerary for any one city at a time, depending on how many days you have there.

The app first asks you to name the destination city. As far as we checked, iplan.ai works best for popular tourist cities, not offbeat or obscure travel. Next, note how many days you will be there, and then choose your free time each day—a cool step to ensure a better itinerary if you already have some plans, but not a whole days worth.

Tell iplan.ai if you're traveling solo, as a couple, with family, or with friends, and then choose your interest among topics like history, art and culture, nature, entertainment, shopping, food, sports, relaxing, etc. Finally, choose between an economy, normal, or luxury budget.

After a few minutes, iplan.ai gives you a day-wise itinerary for your trip. It's plotted on a map so you can see all the locations, and each point of interest has a brief description along with estimated travel time.

The app has both free and paid plans. With a paid account, you can share the trip plan with your friends and access it offline. Another limitation of iplan.ai is that you can't get an itinerary for a multi-city trip. For now, you'll need to make a plan for each city you're visiting, one at a time.

Download: iplan.ai for Android | iOS (Free, Paid)

5. Curiosio

The easiest last-minute travel plan is to get into a car and drive. Curiosio specializes in helping you plan an itinerary for a road trip to several major countries on all continents. It doesn't cover every single place, but the existing collection is impressive enough.

Curiosio uses its own AI engine, Ingeenee, which is trained on several crowdsourced travel-based resources, such as Wikivoyage, Wikipedia, Wikidata, Freebase, DBpedia, GeoNames, OSMNames, and OpenStreetMap. Through this dataset, it can chart an itinerary that meets your requirements across various parameters.

You can set options for a round trip or a one-way trip with starting and finishing points. If there are any places you want to visit on the way, add them in. Then set the number of travelers, dates of the journey, what vehicle you're using, total budget, and whether you want to visit places that spark curiosity or are obscure. The AI will usually give you multiple plans and routes for these options.

The itinerary includes a map of your route and a day-wise breakdown of where you'll be going and what you'll be seeing. Each point of interest is clickable to find more information about it. There are easy ways to share your itinerary with co-travelers, print it out, or even export it to Google Maps. Curiosio is one of the best road trip planners for your next adventure .

6. Trip Planner AI

Trip Planner AI plans a perfect trip to your dream destination. Begin creating your itinerary by entering the city you wish to visit and traveling dates. You can add multiple destinations here.

Then, select the kinds of activities you prefer, the number of people, and whether you're traveling with friends or family. Trip Planner AI asks you about your dietary preferences and budget.

As an optional step, you can specify the place where you'll be staying so that it creates an itinerary accordingly. If you haven't decided on your lodging yet, you can explore hotels suggested by Trip Planner AI.

Finally, Trip Planner AI generates a detailed itinerary, a map, and basic information about the city you're visiting. For each destination, it provides the details of the place, expected traveling time, and cost. Though it provides a complete plan for your trip, you can manually add or remove activities from your itinerary. You can also invite your friends to edit the itinerary and download it as a PDF.

7. Vacay Chatbot

Vacay Chatbot is not a dedicated itinerary maker but an AI chatbot that acts like your travel advisor. So, you can ask it to give travel recommendations, compare different destinations, and, of course, create an itinerary. If you've previously used AI chatbots like ChatGPT, you'll find this trip planner easy to use.

Just enter a prompt specifying your destination and trip details and ask Vacay Chatbot to create an itinerary. You can include details like your trip duration, budget, preferences, number of travelers, etc. The more details you provide, the better your itinerary will be.

One of the downsides of using Vacay Chatbot is that it doesn't provide a map for your trip. However, you can use these apps to plot your itinerary on a map .

All these travel planning AI apps urge you not to use the itinerary as-is and only treat it as a template or guide to begin planning your trip. This is because they currently have several limitations, like databases that aren't recently updated or require specific prompts from the user.

A real human travel agent will still give you a more customized itinerary, but it will cost you a few bucks. If you want a free base guide, more basic travel planning apps are a good starting point.