incenTrip

Future Mobility Labs, LLC

About this app

For individual travelers, incenTrip employs the latest ARPA-E technology to accurately predict traffic to help travelers avoid both day-to-day congestion and traffic jams caused by traffic accidents, work zones, special events and adverse weather conditions. App users also earn reward points while receiving recommendations on the best travel mode, departure time and/or route recommendations before and during a trip. In addition, incenTrip analyzes and help users adopt eco-friendly driving behavior, which could save each user hundreds of dollars in fuel cost each year. Earn reward points every time when you plan a trip with incenTrip, take advantage of multimodal travel options, outsmart traffic jams, and invite your friends to join. With a single click, exchange your reward points for gas cards, free transit rides, EZ pass credits, bikeshare and Uber rides, gift cards, charity donations, or cash.

For government agencies, incenTrip revolutionizes travel demand and traffic management. By providing incentives to travelers, agencies can more effectively fight congestion, reduce energy use, and emissions. The key innovation of incenTrip is the development of personalized and dynamic incentives that vary based on individual preferences and real-time traffic conditions, which significantly improves the cost-effectiveness of traveler incentives. Agencies can monitor incenTrip performance with a customized agency dashboard. Agency participation in the incenTrip Eco-system can improve multimodal mobility system performance along congested corridors and throughout its jurisdiction. Please contact the incenTrip team if you would like to customize the incenTrip app for your specific agency needs and/or integrate the incenTrip technology with your existing tools/platforms.

Others who may find value in incenTrip include: (1) Automobile, IT, and TNC companies that aspire to provide enhanced mobility services and location based services to their users; (2) existing demand management companies seeking solutions for dynamic and personalized incentives; (3) fleet managers pursuing low cost and immediately deploy-able solutions to save fuel cost, reduce the cost of congestion, and improve productivity; (4) organizations for increased transit ridership, carpool, walking, biking, and sustainable travel; (5) employers who would like to offer customized incentives to their employees to improve their commute experience and reduce parking demand. Please contact the app developer team to inquire about customized incenTrip solutions.

Ratings and reviews

Works as intended most of the time, but needs some serious debugging. I'm always "earning points" after I close the app, even if I'm just sitting in my room. I've had plenty times where I'd get stuck on a black screen when trying to plan a trip. Sometimes it'll award points and upload data for a trip, and then the next time I go to plan a new trip and click "depart now" it won't let me because it's stuck on the last trip. Also the auto-logging no longer works. Good concept, okay execution.

I really wanted to cut this app some slack knowing that it's a project that's somewhat in development, but damn, it may be the single buggiest, most frustrating app I've ever used. Among the problems I've encountered: 1. Basic trip tracking is pretty screwy right now. I would say that of that 20+ trips I've tried to track, it has successfully given me credit for about 5 of them. That's a success rate of 25%. That's appalling! What is going on if your app can't even deliver a 99% success rate for its primary function? 2. When you try to start tracking a trip, the app takes an absurdly long time "searching" for your various commute options, to the point that it's basically a complete headache to do what Google Maps does in .3 seconds. If my daily commute is always by train or subway, EVERY SINGLE DAY, why can I not just select that option and be on my way in 2 seconds? Why am I standing on a subway platform, staring at a bizarre "searching" animation for more than a minute, unable to start a trip even though my train is arriving? Come on! 3. Automatic trip tracking DOES NOT WORK. Full stop. I have never had it detect a single trip I didn't preemptively set up, despite it having full location access on my phone. 4. You're allowed to schedule trips in the future using the "depart later" function, but you can't set up any sort of "recurring trip". Why not????? I'd wager that for 99% of users, their daily commute is the same thing, both ways, EVERY DAY. Why isn't a regular commute scheduling feature a day one option? Just bizarre. This app seems like such a cool idea, and for sustainability/environmentally-minded people, you'd really want to make it easy to use. But the baffling design decisions and the staggering unreliability and constant failures of the app just make you want to rip your hair out. I will follow the development and hope that they improve it over time, but please devs, PLEASE, fix the basic features of the app. I should be able to click one easy button to track a trip and never worry about it again, or better yet, schedule them to be automatically tracked every day without any regular input. It is crazy that I've taken several commutes now where you tell me I'm tracking my trip, and then NOTHING. NO POINTS. That's just a real shame. Hope you can get these issues ironed out, because if so, I'll happily promote the app to all my friends and coworkers!

I love the idea of this app and want it to be good. Unfortunately it's one of the buggiest apps I've ever used. You constantly have to figure out what combination of wifi/data settings will allow it to work, and if you get it wrong it just hangs. I also wish there was a way to save trips that you make every day rather than having to create a new one each time.The permissions it asks for also seem suspicious and unnecessary.I have gotten 4 checks so far so at least there is that.

What's new

UI improvements for Flextime Program and My Trips