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Show HN: Mobile-friendly pragmatic London underground status page

3 points by jsingleton 11y ago

jsingleton 11y ago
This is the source (PHP/XSLT) on GitHub. For a live demo visit: https://unop.uk/tube/ https://unop.uk/tube/
kingosticks 11y ago
I appreciate the sentiment of this. But what I'd really like is actual live status and not the frustratingly delayed version tfl provide. Something that monitored the main twitter feeds and reported "suspicious service" (or something) when there were numerous comments. I had a look previously and didn't find anything.
- jsingleton 11y ago
  It may be possible to do some machine learning on the live train running API (which reports the real-time position of trains). Use the published line statuses to teach it what normal looks like then predict suspicious service. You could crowd source data too but internet coverage is intermittent on the tube. This would work better for main line trains. There are are similar APIs for them which I've built a wrapper for: https://github.com/jpsingleton/Huxley https://github.com/jpsingleton/Huxley
- alexbilbie 11y ago
  Ideally TFL would provide a realtime API of the number of Oyster card entrances and exits at each station. I work just off Oxford Street and at roughly 6pm every day travellers can't get into Oxford Circus station because of overcrowding at the platform level. If we could get a realtime overview of the number of people entering a station and see that the number of people entering is unexpectedly very low an app could direct people to enter at Bond Street / Green Park / Piccadilly Circus
Paulods 11y ago
Interesting. I quickly whipped up another variation using javascript and flexbox. Meaning you can host it on s3 and no need for a server. Needs to be browser tested and so on... but you can see it here for a live demo. http://transport-for-london.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/ http://transport-for-london.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.c...

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Show HN: Mobile-friendly pragmatic London underground status page

3 points by jsingleton 11y ago

jsingleton 11y ago
This is the source (PHP/XSLT) on GitHub. For a live demo visit: https://unop.uk/tube/ https://unop.uk/tube/
kingosticks 11y ago
I appreciate the sentiment of this. But what I'd really like is actual live status and not the frustratingly delayed version tfl provide. Something that monitored the main twitter feeds and reported "suspicious service" (or something) when there were numerous comments. I had a look previously and didn't find anything.
- jsingleton 11y ago
  It may be possible to do some machine learning on the live train running API (which reports the real-time position of trains). Use the published line statuses to teach it what normal looks like then predict suspicious service. You could crowd source data too but internet coverage is intermittent on the tube. This would work better for main line trains. There are are similar APIs for them which I've built a wrapper for: https://github.com/jpsingleton/Huxley https://github.com/jpsingleton/Huxley
- alexbilbie 11y ago
  Ideally TFL would provide a realtime API of the number of Oyster card entrances and exits at each station. I work just off Oxford Street and at roughly 6pm every day travellers can't get into Oxford Circus station because of overcrowding at the platform level. If we could get a realtime overview of the number of people entering a station and see that the number of people entering is unexpectedly very low an app could direct people to enter at Bond Street / Green Park / Piccadilly Circus
Paulods 11y ago
Interesting. I quickly whipped up another variation using javascript and flexbox. Meaning you can host it on s3 and no need for a server. Needs to be browser tested and so on... but you can see it here for a live demo. http://transport-for-london.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/ http://transport-for-london.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.c...