Houston ConnectSmart

Metropia

About this app

Save time and money with ConnectSmart, Houston’s first all-in-one, personalized transportation app that improves your daily commute and travel within the greater Houston region.

Customized Travel Options Tailored To Fit Your Needs
Whether you’re a Houston driver looking to avoid traffic and construction with real-time GPS navigation, a METRO rider looking to improve your trip, or a carpooler in search of a safe ride, ConnectSmart was designed with you in mind.

Every Houston Transportation Option In One App
ConnectSmart empowers you with the following features so you can save time and money, avoid traffic and reduce stress on your daily travel in the greater Houston area:

-Find better routes, get real time road conditions, traffic updates, and travel times to avoid sitting in traffic.
-Search for restaurants, gas stations, parking garages and other places of interest easily
-Get door-to-door GPS navigation for any mode of travel.
-Purchase and redeem digital Houston METRO transit tickets.
-Find nearby available bikeshare rentals.
-Save money on gas with the ability to create public and private carpool groups.
-Find available parking spots near your destination.
-No-cost roadside assistance if you need a tow.

Find Available Parking Spots
Stop driving around in circles! Use ConnectSmart to search real-time parking availability near your final destination. If you like to plan ahead, you can always search for parking in advance of your trip. After you park, ConnectSmart will seamlessly navigate from the parking garage to your final destination on foot.

Houston METRO Ticketing
There’s never been an easier way to take Houston’s public transit. In addition to guiding you door-to-door along your route, ConnectSmart allows you to buy, store and redeem digital tickets for METRO bus, light rail, and Park & Ride routes.
-You can purchase transit tickets at any time through the app’s Wallet feature. Digital tickets are safely stored and can be activated and used to board METRO directly through the app.
-ConnectSmart will tell you the exact tickets you need to purchase for your transit trip. Simply plan a trip on Houston METRO, see which bus lines and routes are included, and purchase the correct tickets (or even use tickets you’ve already purchased) with a few simple taps.

Carpooling Made Comfortable
Looking to save money on high gas prices, tolls, parking, and more? Form your own private carpool groups with people you know and trust including family, friends, coworkers, and classmates and get alerted when someone’s trip matches up with yours. If you’d like, we can even find the perfect carpool companion for your upcoming trip and pair you up with someone heading your way.

ConnectSmart also has the ability for women to request female-only carpool groups to help ensure a greater level of comfort and security during your trip.

Bikeshare Integration
You can check real-time rental bike availability at nearby BCycle stations as well as the number of empty spots for bike rental returns. Use ConnectSmart’s unique comfort-level settings to find the ideal route to your destination based on dedicated comfort and safety conditions like dedicated bike lanes, vehicle congestion, and more then get turn-by-turn GPS directions through the bicycle navigation feature.

Ratings and reviews

This app causes my Device care app to show the message "Some apps or processes are overloading the system (CPU) and need to be closed." When I click on the error, this app is listed along with its CPU usage. I received a system message stating the system was overloaded and an app needed to be closed. It was this app. I've never received that system message for any other app. I haven't used it for travel yet.

Bike route options are ridiculous, worse than Google Maps. I like the comfort rating (read: safety) of different bike routes but why not suggest the safest options like White Oak/Buffalo Bayou Bike trails to get downtown? You can get from Stude Park to City Hall all by bike trails but this is not an option in the app. Developer says safest routes provided but not true. Search slow. "Balanced" Driving routes consistently provide faster ETA's than "Shortest Time" driving routes.

I ride my bicycle over 60 miles per week. You do not need a car in Houston. I enjoy the therapeutic stress-relieving exercise I receive when bicycling the 6 miles to and from work (over 6 years doing this rain or shine, hot or cold) and to and from Church. I am in the wholesale auto auction business and we sell an average of 2,500 vehicles from and to licensed dealers only. We do not sell directly to the general public in the Houston market. Manheim by Cox Automotive. Houston Texas Hobby.

What's new

We've enhanced and updated our mobility-friendly features and squashed a few bugs to help you save time, avoid traffic, and take the stress out of your travel throughout the Greater Houston Area.