About Trac

Our story

Trac began as our software engineering capstone at McMaster University, originally named MacTransit. It grew out of a simple, stubborn problem we heard and felt year after year: students on campus couldn't tell where the shuttle was, or when it was coming. After positive feedback from our faculty and stakeholder partners, we decided to incorporate as Trac to continue developing and improving our service to bring it into our community's hands.

Our mission

To answer the age-old question: where is the bus? We want to make taking the shuttle bus as predictable and transparent for everyone as possible. Trac gives commuters a clear way to find their nearest shuttle bus, drivers low-effort controls, and administrators the control they need to keep service dependable.

Featured in McMaster Engineering News Engineering students create app to track campus shuttles McMaster University's Faculty of Engineering featured Trac on its newsletter as an engineering success story: "Three software engineering students transformed a capstone project into Trac, a real-time shuttle-tracking app now piloted on campus to improve student commuting and wait times." Read the story
  • Arvind Shastri
  • Andrew Thompson
  • George Yazji
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