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24 alternatives to Public transit systems as data – lines, stations, railcars, and history
Comprehensive information about public transit systems worldwide.
Public Transit Systems as Data is a resource that provides structured information about public transportation networks, including transit lines, station locations, railcars, and historical records. It serves transit… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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2013 · transitfeeds.com · its alternatives →
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Transit▲123Real-time transit data and a bot to help you commute
2016 · transitapp.com · its alternatives →
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This was something I built while trying to look for housing in Toronto that was decently transit-accessible to my office while still cheap. The backend is written in Rust. It parses public GTFS data from transit agencies and performs a simple heuristics-based BFS on the bus lines to calculate how long to reach all points in a city. The frontend uses React and Mapbox GL to render each individual road segment based on how long it takes to reach. This project was a great excuse to learn Rust, deployments, and mapping. The source code is here if you are interested:…
2023 · map.henryn.xyz · its alternatives →
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Save $5 by buying both books together!Book 1 - The Definitive Guide to GTFSLearn all about the General Transit Feed Specification (GTFS) and how to consume open public transportation data, including:All about the structure of a GTFS feedHow to import a GTFS feed to an SQL database and perform querie
2014 · gtfsbook.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · buz-map.com · its alternatives →
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Turn Chicago CTA rides into meaningful personal data
2025 · transitstats.co · its alternatives →
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Uber Transit▲167Uber now offers real time data for public transportation
2019 · uber.com · its alternatives →
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Hey all! My train the other day was delayed and I got curious where they all were at any given time, so I built a map and figured I'd share it.
2023 · trains.fyi · its alternatives →
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As a side project I built Sydney Transit Graph - a visualisation of real-time Sydney bus congestion. Each line on the graph (a Marey chart) represents a bus completing its route (percentage) over time.
2022 · jakecoppinger.com · its alternatives →
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virail▲72Transport metasearch: trains, flights, buses, car sharing
2018 · virail.com · its alternatives →
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Metro▲103Universal data collection, powered ethically by your users
2018 · getmetro.co · its alternatives →
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2019 · ixn.intersection.com · its alternatives →
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Introducing the Station Display
2025 · stationdisplay.com · its alternatives →
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Over the past week I built a project to let people self-host an entire maps stack so they don't have to send data to the big G. Right now it includes a base map, geocoder and directions server. Currently only bicycle directions are supported, and I'm only hosting tiles for Seattle because I'm unemployed and can't afford to host data for the whole planet. Check it out! https://maps.ellenhp.me/ https://github.com/ellenhp/headway Ultimately I'd like to really focus on transit routing (not implemented) but I'll probably throw a driving mode in there too.
2022 · maps.ellenhp.me · its alternatives →
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UberStats▲226Visualize statistics on your years of Uber rides!
2018 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Busity▲100Explore Paris 🇫🇷🥖 with the help of the public bus system
2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Explore the Berlin subway system using Memgraph Lab, mapping subway stops as nodes and connections as edges in a graph database.
2023 · memgraph.com · its alternatives →
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Hello, I was running around Germany, hectically navigating public transportation, and getting lost all the time. I noticed that every station had i platforms, each used lists of n buses (trains, whatever) arriving, each has their list of m destinations. That means I would be scanning i x n x m items just to see if I was at the correct stop. As I was nervous, for every bus that arrived, I would rescan the list of stops to double check. I began thinking how I could make a better system. Linked is a very shoddy mockup of how bloom filters could be used to allow passengers O(1) lookup time for…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I have created a single map that lets you easily browse all bus, tram, metro, ferry and train routes. I’ve loaded some data from Europe, Israel and India. It's called BuzMap: Here is an update, there is a previous outline linked at the bottom State of the BuzMap - http://buz-map.com I have done significant work over the last 3 months to get BuzMap further towards a usable product and at least prove the scalability of the architecture and I hope a glimpse of where we can go with this.. I have what I think is a viable user interaction model. Upon touching or hovering over a section…
2020 · its alternatives →
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I made a public transport route planning program that's capable of planning journeys across Europe or North America! There's only one other FOSS project I know of (MOTIS/Transitous) that can do transit routing at this scale, and in the testing I've performed mine is about 50x faster. I've spent a few weeks on this project now and it's getting to the point where I can show it off, but the API responses need a lot of work before they're usable for any downstream application. Example query (Berlin to Barcelona):…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · chrisnorstrom.com · its alternatives →
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