Colorado transportation officials update COTrip app with push notifications, new language features

The Colorado Department of Transportation has updated COTrip with new language options and push notifications.

COTrip is a smartphone app and online tool that state officials use to communicate closures, road conditions and other traffic information to Colorado drivers. The COTrip Planner App is available on the Apple and Android app stores and the online version can be accessed at COTrip.org.

COTrip.org now offers three languages: English, Spanish and Vietnamese, according to a news release from the transportation department. The language options were chosen based on the state’s demographics according to 2020 census data, the release states.

The language options are available on both the COTrip.org landing page as well as directly on the interactive map. A new language button is located in the upper-right corner of the map, according to the news release.

With the latest update, the COTrip Planner App for mobile devices can now support push notifications, the release states. Users can opt-in to receive push notifications by logging into their MyCOTrip account and editing the existing text and email alert options, according to the transportation department.

To help users set up notifications, which can be set up to notify them of closures or other alerts on specific roads, such as Interstate 70, CDOT created a how-to video available at tinyurl.com/HowToCOTrip. 

Colorado has a hands-free law that restricts drivers from using their phone while operating a vehicle, so state transportation officials ask that drivers review travel information before leaving or while pulled over safely on the side of the road.