How do I get there? A chat for riders
A chat that finds the nearest stops and warns about delays.
What it does
A chat for your riders: they say where they are and where they are going, and an AI agent tells them the nearest stops and stations, road problems on the way and the weather.
In one sentence: When someone writes in its chat, let the AI agent answer.
Why it is useful
Riders want to know where to catch a bus and what may slow them down. The chat answers in seconds.
Who it is for
Public transport & transit. Transit agencies, bus and rail operators and mobility planners placing stops, running services around disruptions and reaching riders. Every use case for public transport
Best use cases
- A transit agency’s website
- A city app
- A tourism website
What each run gives you
- A chat page
The time it saves
Whenever someone writes in its chat. Doing the same work by hand takes about 5 minutes each time, so it saves about 25 hours a month (an estimate). It is easy: 2 blocks and 3 tools.
The flow, block by block
- ChatTrigger · ChatStarts the flow when someone writes in its chat: the chat window in the editor, or a chat page you can share or put on your website.
- Trip helperxMap AI · AI agentAn AI agent: for each incoming message it thinks, uses the blocks you link to its Tools port (data, xMap AI, lookups, your tables, other flows, apps), remembers the conversation and writes an answer in {{reply}}.
- Stops nearbyxMap data · Nearby placesA tool the AI agent uses when it needs itPlaces around a point from xMap’s own places database (300M+ places, refreshed every month): pick the types of place (more than 5,000, such as Restaurant, Cafe, Pharmacy, Hospital or Gas station, or a whole group of them) and how far to look.
- Road problemsxMap data · Traffic incidentsA tool the AI agent uses when it needs itRoad closures, roadworks and other incidents on online maps right now, with where they are.
- The forecast therexMap data · Weather forecastA tool the AI agent uses when it needs itThe weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
Every block can be changed after you use the template: the city, the type of place, the score, where the results go.
Use it now
Answer a few questions, enter your work email, and it runs in your own account, kept running until you pause it. Use this template.
How to set it up
- AI agents with tools and memory: An agent that answers questions using your blocks as tools.
- A chat page for your flow: Let anyone talk to a flow on a page or on your website.
- Answer on WhatsApp, Telegram or Slack: An assistant that replies in the same chat.
- The map: everything your AI employees found: Results, Map: every result as layers on one map, with filters, a time slider, a card for each result and Compare sites.
- How to build a WhatsApp assistant that answers about places: Customers ask on WhatsApp; an AI agent searches and replies.
- AI agent: An AI that decides which tools to use to answer or complete a task.
- How to run your AI employees from WhatsApp: Ask, build, run and pause flows from your phone, by message, voice note or call.
More for Public transport & transit
- On-demand minibus zones for older residents: Zones for an on-demand minibus where older people lack stops.
- Where new cycle lanes would be used most: Blocks ranked for new cycle lanes by young adults and cycling signs.
- Blocks with many people and few bus stops: Blocks with many people and few bus stops, for the network plan.
- Schools with many children and few bus stops: Schools with many children and few stops, for school bus routes.
- Park and ride sites at the edge of the city: Stations scored as park and ride sites.
- Malls far from stations, for shuttle partnerships: Malls far from stations, offered a shared shuttle.