New York Metro's Rat Detector App

November 11, 2023

The rat detector has appeared in the Transit app of the New York Metro. Users themselves report the number of rodents. When planning a route, they are asked if there are rats at the station, and they can answer: a lot, a couple of them, or none at all. The authors of Transit also conducted a study to identify the most rat-infested station, with 191st Street between Broadway and Seventh Avenue winning the title.