Uber making it easier to schedule rides to railway station

[John Ashworth]

Uber is making it easier for suburban commuters to schedule rides to the train station

The result is “Make My Train,” which Uber rolls out today to two of the largest commuter rail systems in the country: the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) in New York and Caltrain in the San Francisco Bay Area...

Make My Train works like this: when riders enter a train station as their destination, they will automatically see train schedules at that station and be prompted to select the train they want to make based on Uber’s real-time transit data. Riders then choose when they’d like to arrive at the station, and Uber’s algorithm spits out a suggested time to schedule their ride...